A dense, much branched, tangled, woody shrub up to 185 cm high. Branches greyish-brown, lenticels white and dense, appressed white pubescent when young. Leaves digitately trifoliolate, petiolate. Leaflets (7-)8-11 x 4-6 mm, obovate; recurved-mucronate, mucro sharply recurved; apex emarginate, base cuneate, conduplicate, margin smooth; glabrous, dull green, distinctly glandular; petiole 1-1.5 mm long, pubescent. Stipules 20-25 mm long, longer than petiole, subulate, persistent, straight. Inflorescences axillary in upper axils of short seasonal shoots, comprised of a triplet of pedicellate flowers and subtended by a small oblong senescent bract. Flowers 5-6 mm long, each subtended by a minute tuft of hairs; white; pedicel 2 mm long. Calyx teeth longer than the 2.5 mm long tube; equal, lanceolate, falcate, carinal tooth somewhat broader than the other teeth; lobes 5-6 x 0.5-2 mm, vexillary lobes not fused above the tube; tinged purple, sparsely covered in short appressed black hairs, glandular over entire surface, more so on teeth; accrescent in fruit. Standard 6-7 x 6.5 mm, white with a broad triangular purple nectar guide streaked with yellow, very broadly obovate, apex emarginate, claw 2 mm long, auriculate. Wing petals 6-6.5 x 2 mm, claw 2 mm long, bulging along midline. Androecium 5 mm long, pseudo-monadelphous, fenestrate. Pistil 4-4.5 mm long; ovary 1.5 mm long, densely sericeous; height of curvature 1.5 mm, entasis broadest at point of flexure; stigma penicillate, incurving. Fruits and seeds unknown.
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