Perennial, procumbent herb; stems glabrescent, up to 0.2 m long and mainly branching from the slightly woody bases. Leaves 16-37 mm long (x = 27 mm), 10-20 mm apart; leaflets 5-9 x 2-4 mm, 5-9-jugate (x = 7), elliptic to very slightly obovate, apex rounded and apiculate, base broadly cuneate, both surfaces glabrescent; petiole 4-7 mm long, upper surface very slightly grooved: stipules 2-3 x 1-2 mm, ovate, apex acute, glabrescent. Inflorescence 31-78 mm long (x = 56 mm): peduncle very sparsely strigose, with 3-11 flowers (x = 7) crowded near the apex. Bracts 2-4 mm long, usually shorter than the calyx, sparsely strigose. Calyx 4-5 mm long, 5-lobed; tube 2-3 mm long: lobes 2-3 mm long, as long as or longer than the tube, triangular, apex acute, strigose without, strigoso-tomentose within. Corolla magenta, paler at base; standard 9-11 x 8-10 mm, widely to very widely obovate, apex obcordate, base attenuate; wings 7.5 x 2 mm. narrowly depressed-obovate, apex rounded. Gynoecium: ovary 5 mm long, stipitate, narrowly elliptic, flattened along lower suture, sericeous; ovules many; style 3 mm long, bearded only immediately below the stigmatic surface stigma asymmetric, semi-clavate. Pods 16-20 x 8-12 mm, broadly oblong-ovate, semi-membranous, apex apiculate, strigose. Seeds 4-5.
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