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A branched shrub. Stems erect, rigid, canescent with appressed short hairs, sparsely leafy. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate, stipulate; petioles not exceeding 5 mm long; leaflets 0.5-1.5 cm long, 4-9 mm broad, cuneate, obovate, recurved-mucronate, canescent, glandular. Stipules adnate to the base of the petiole, small, subulate. Inflorescence axillary or in interrupted spikes. Flowers in whorls of three, sessile, bracteate. Calyx-tube 3-4 mm long, 6-7 mm in diameter, glandular, villous; lobes slightly unequal, 1-5 mm long, 0.75-2 mm broad, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate-ovate, acute, villous, pilose on the inner surface. Vexillum 5-7 cm long, 4-5 mm broad, obovate, with a claw 1-3 mm long; alae 4-6.5 mm long, 1-2.5 mm broad, with a linear claw 3 mm long; carina 3-4 mm long, 1-2 mm broad, with a linear claw 3-4 mm long. Ovary glabrous or hirsute; style 3-4 mm long, glabrous or hirsute.
An erect rigid white-pubescent shrub, 60-80 cm high, the branches and branchlets very straight and widely spreading. Leaves digitately trifoliolate on very short petioles: leaflets cuneate-oblong or broadly cuneate-obovate, hook-pointed, 0.5-1.5 cm long, hairy on both faces. Stipules small, slender. Flowers blue, almost sessile, ternate in longish interrupted leafless racemes. Calyx 6-7 mm long, densely pubescent, the 2 upper teeth partly united. Standard about 9 mm long, longer than the slender dark blue keel.
Erect, much-branched shrub to 2 m, appressed white-hairy. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate, leaflets cuneate-obovate, adpressed-hairy and glandular; stipules glabrous. Flowers pale blue, mauve, calyx white-silky, accrescent.
