Perennial prostrate herb with several branches up to 50 cm. long, radiating from a slender fusiform rootstock 14–18 cm. long.. Stems covered with spreading blackish or white bristly hairs.. Leaves digitately 3–5-foliolate; leaflets narrowly elliptic, 1·5–5 cm. long, 0·4–1·5 cm. wide, acute at the apex, cuneate at the base, pilose with white hairs, subplicate, the nerves very impressed above, prominent beneath; petioles 1–3 mm. long; petiolules 1 mm. long; stipules linear, 5–7 mm. long, pilose.. Inflorescences axillary, ascending, subglobose, 1–1·5 cm. long, 1–2 cm. wide; peduncles 1·5–4·5 cm. long, hairy like the stems; pedicels 1·5 mm. long; flowers paired on the rhachis; bracts linear-lanceolate, 3·5 mm. long; bracteoles linear, 2 mm. long.. Calyx covered with dark blackish-brown bristly hairs; tube 1·5–2 mm. long; lobes narrowly triangular, 2 mm. long, the upper pair joined for two-thirds of their length to form a bifid lobe.. Standard purplish-mauve, darker outside, violin-shaped, 7 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, strigose outside with white and brown hairs; wings and tip of keel purplish-mauve, hairy.. Pods not known.
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