A shrub. Stems erect, striate, virgate, with a few scattered glands, canescent, becoming glabrous. Leaves trifoliolate, sub-sessile, stipulate; leaflets up to 2 cm long and 1 cm broad, obovate, obtuse, recurved-mucronate, thickly glandular, canescent when young, becoming glabrous. Stipules up to 2.5 mm long, subulate, acute. Inflorescence terminal, spicate, sessile. Calyx-tube 3 mm long, 7 mm in diameter, glandular, canescent; lobes ovate, acuminate, glandular, canescent, shortly pilose on the inner surface; upper and lateral lobes 1.5-3 mm long, up to 1.5 mm broad; lowest lobe 4 mm long, 2 mm broad. Vexillum 5 mm long, 4.5 mm broad, obovate, with a channelled claw 2.5 mm long; alae 4.5 mm long, 2 mm broad, with a linear claw 3 mm long; carina 3 mm long, 2 mm.broad, with a linear claw 4 mm long. Ovary pilose; style 4 mm long. Pod membraneous, pubescent, with persistent calyx; seed small, hard and brown.
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Erect, spreading shrub, up to 1.5 m tall, branches striate, pale grey-haired, densely pustulate. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets obovate, folded, minutely stiff-haired below, glandular, apex notched. Flowers in threes, in lax terminal spikes, greenish white, calyx conspicuously glandular. Pod ovoid.
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