Lotononis complanata B.-e.van Wyk

Dwarf suffrutescent perennial up to 0.1 m high and 0.2 m wide. Branches slender, procumbent from a thick central rootstock; young twigs densely strigillose. Leaves digitately trifoliolate, relatively small, sparsely pubescent, variable in size, those on the main axis with long and slender petioles, those of lateral twigs with the petiole (4-)6-15(-22) mm long; leaflets narrowly to broadly oblanceolate, variable in length, (2-)4-10(-15) x (1-)2-3(-3.5) mm, adaxial surface glabrous, abaxial surface minutely pubescent; apex acute, recurved. Stipules invariably single at each node, small, narrowly lanceolate, up to 3 mm long. Inflorescences subterminal or leaf-opposed on short lateral branches, invariably single-flowered; peduncle slender, variable in length, (16-45) mm long; bract small, oblong, up to 1 mm long; bracteoles absent. Flowers relatively small, 8-12 mm long, blue; pedicel short, 1-2 mm long. Calyx 5-7 mm long, subequally lobed, minutely pubescent; lobes narrowly triangular. Standard large, suborbicular, 7-11 mm long, with a line of minute hairs dorsally along the middle. Wing petals longer than the keel, oblanceolate; apex obliquely obtuse; sculpturing in 3-4 rows of mosdy intercostal lunae and lamellae. Keel petals semicircular, somewhat acute, auriculate and pocketed near base. Anthers dimorphic. Pistil short; ovary oblong, ±7 mm long, minutely pubescent; style short, erect. Pods very broadly oblong, 10-21 x 5-7(-8) mm, compressed, indehiscent, minutely pubescent, apex broad and rounded, 6-30-seeded, upper suture very conspicuously verrucose. Seed kidney-shaped, 1.5 mm in diameter, on very long funicles; funicles up to 4 mm long; testa brown, densely tuberculate.