Melolobium candicans Eckl. & Zeyh.

Divaricately branched, spiny shrub, 0.3-0.5 m high, covered with white hairs. Leaves stipulate; leaflets, oblong to broadly obovate, (3-)4-9(-10) x 2-4 mm, with sessile glands, apex emarginate; petiole 2-5 mm long, stipules semi-cordate to auriculate, 2-4 x 1-3 mm. Inflorescence terminal, (10-)20-35(45-) mm long, with 2-3(-6) flowers; flowers 6-8(-12) mm long; bracts cordate, 2-4 x 2-4 mm; bracteoles ovate, 2-4 x 1.0-1.5 mm. Calyx shortly bilabiate, with sessile glands, hairy; upper lobes acute; upper lip 5-6(-8) mm long, the apices obtuse, upper sinus 1.5-2.5 mm deep; lateral sinus 2.5-5.0 mm deep; lower lobes acute; lower lip 69 mm long, the apices obtuse, lower sinuses 0.5-1.0 mm deep. Corolla yellow; standard suborbicular, 6-10 x 3-5(-7) mm, with a well-developed, channelled claw 2-4 mm long; wing petals oblong, sculptured, 6-9 x 2-3 mm, with a linear claw 2-4 mm long; keel petals shorter than the wing petals, 5-7 x 2-3 mm, with a linear claw 2-4 mm long. Gynoecium narrowly oblong, densely hairy. Fruit narrowly oblong, straight, 10-15(-17) x 3-4 mm, very hairy, 2-3(-4)-seeded; seeds round, 1.4-2.6 x 1.4-2.3 mm, pale green, pale yellow, brown, pale yellow mottled brown.