Perennial, glabrous suffrutex, 0.6-0.9(-1.0) m high; slender, suberect, many-stemmed, unbranched. Leaves terete, acute, sometimes distinctly jointed. Inflorescences relatively many-flowered or many, terminal racemes. Flowers erect, yellow. Calyx: teeth triangular, longer than tube. Petals: standard partly purple; keel spirally twisted. Flowering time Sept.-Jan. Pod very slender.
Suberect or decumbent subshrub, up to 1 m tall. Leaves simple, terete, usually 1-sided on branches, articulated near middle (western populations), glabrous. Flowers numerous in terminal racemes, yellow with purple streaking on standard, glabrous; keel spirally twisted. Pod thin-walled, linear, relatively long, dehiscent.
Decumbent to suberect shrublet to 1 m. Leaves simple, terete, articulated or unarticulated. Flowers yellow, the standard partly purple and keel spirally twisted. Pods linear, up to 165 mm long, dehiscent, thin-walled.