Procumbent, densely branched shrublet, ± 0.3 m wide. Branches smooth, glabrous; twigs densely strigillose, conspicuously white at the ends. Leaves digitately trifoliolate; petiole (2-)3-4(-7) mm long; leaflets conduplicate, strongly recurved, obovate, (2-)4-6(-8) x (1-)2-3(-5) mm, abaxially strigillose, adaxially glabrous. Stipules consistently present, single at each node, elliptic-oblong to narrowly lanceolate, 2-3(-5) mm long. Inflorescences terminal or subterminal on lateral branches, slender, long-pedunculate, 25-40 mm long, invariably single-flowered; bracts small, up to 1 mm long; bracteoles absent. Flowers 12-14 mm long, deep blue; pedicel 2-3 mm long. Calyx 7-8 mm long, with the upper and lateral lobes on either side fused higher up in pairs, minutely strigillose. Standard broadly ovate to orbicular, 11-13 mm long, with a line of hair dorsally along the middle, deep blue with yellow at the base. Wing petals oblanceolate, slightly longer than the keel; apex obliquely truncate; sculpturing upper basal and upper left central, in 4 rows of inter-and infracostal lunae. Keel petals semicircular, obtuse, auriculate and pocketed near the base. Anthers dimorphic. Pistil 12-14 mm long; ovary linear, 8-10 mm long. Fruit (slightly immature) 20 x 4-5 mm, laterally much inflated, lower suture sunken, upper suture verrucose, surface wrinkled, glabrous. Seed unknown.
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