A shrub. Stems erect, virgate, pubescent, glabrescent, glandular, leafy. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate, stipulate; petioles up to 4 mm long; leaflets up to 3 cm long, 9 mm broad, obovate or obovate-oblong, obtuse, recurved mucronate, thickly nigro-punctate, slightly hirsute, especially along the mid-rib and veins. Stipules adnate to the base of the petiole, up to 5 mm long, subulate, acute, glandular. Inflorescence terminal, sessile, a densely flowered spike. Bracts small. Calyx-tube 3-4 mm long, 5-8 mm in diameter, veined, pubescent, glands few; lobes lanceolate-ovate, acute, long ciliate, more thickly glandular than the tube, shortly pilose on the inner surface; upper and lateral lobes 1.5-3-5 mm long, 1-2 mm broad; lowest lobe 3-5 mm long, 1-2 mm broad. Vexillum 4-6 mm long, 4.5-5 mm broad, obovate, slightly geniculate, with a channelled claw 2 mm long; alae 3.5-6 mm long, 1.5-2 mm broad, with a linear claw 2.5-3 mm long; carina 2-3 mm long, 1-1-5 mm broad, with a linear claw 3-4 mm long. Ovary glabrous; style 3-4 mm long, glabrous. Flowers: Colour, pale blue. Plants about (2-3 ft) 0.6-0.9 m high.
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An erect shrub 1-2 m high, with few ascending virgate, densely leafy branches: branchlets pubescent. Leaves digitately trifoliolate: leaflets cuneate-oblong, recurved-mucronate, 1.5-2 cm long, the medial longest, the younger pubescent. Stipules semi-ovate, membranous, partly attached to the short petioles. Flowers almost sessile, ternate, the long spicate racemes about 1 x 5 cm in diam., lengthening in the fruiting stage. Bracts narrow-ovate, apiculate, shorter than the calyx. Calyx 5-6 mm long, pubescent. Standard 8 mm long, pale blue, with darker markings, longer than the whitish dark-tipped keel.
Willowy, reseeding, colonial shrub to 3.5 m. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets obovate to oblong, glabrescent; stipules hairy. Flowers in elongate racemes, lilac or purple with white wings, calyx softly hairy and glandular.
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