A virgate shrub. Stems erect, striate, leafy, canescent. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate, stipulate; petioles not exceeding 5 mm; leaflets 0.7-3.5 mm long, 0.4-1.7 cm broad, obovate to obovate-oblong, recurved mucronate, nigro-punctate, thinly canescent, becoming almost glabrous when older. Stipules lanceolate, acute, nigro-punctate, canescent. Inflorescence terminal and axillary, spicate. Spikes sometimes lax and interrupted. Peduncles up to 2-5 cm long. Calyx-tube 2.5-4 mm long, 6-7 mm in diameter, glandular, canescent; lobes ovate to lanceolate-ovate, acute, glandular, canescent, glabrous or pilose on the inner surface; upper and lateral lobes 1-3 mm long, 0.75-1.5 mm broad; lowest lobe 1.5-5 mm long. Vexillum 6-7 mm long, 4-5 mm broad, obovate, with a claw 1-3 mm long; alae 4-5 mm long, 1.5-2 mm broad, with a linear claw 3-4 mm long; carina 3-4 mm long, 1-5-2 mm broad, with a linear claw 3-4 mm long. Style 3-4 mm long, pilose or glandular. Pod membraneous, 1.4 cm long, 4 mm broad, pubescent, with the persistent calyx; seed up to 1 cm long, hard and brown.
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Willowy shrub to 2.5 m. Leaves 3-foliolate, dark green, leaflets elliptic-oblanceolate, adpressed-hairy when young; stipules hairy. Flowers white to cream-coloured, calyx white-hairy and glandular, accrescent.
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