A small suffruticose. Stems slender, ascending, hairy. Leaves unifoliolate, petiolate, stipulate, 1-4 cm long, 0.5-2.15 cm broad, elliptic-lanceolate to elliptic-ovate or oblong, mucronulate, with reticulate veining, no glands present, densely hairy when young and never becoming quite glabrous; petioles up to 5 mm long. Stipules about 7 mm long and 2 mm broad, ovate, acute, nerved, hispid. Inflorescence spicate. Peduncles terminal and axillary, bracteate, hairy, exceeding the leaves. Flowers sessile or sub-sessile. Calyx-tube 3-3.5 mm long, 7 mm in diameter, veined, thickly hirsute; lobes linear-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, hirsute, glabrous on the inner surface; upper and lateral lobes 5-9 mm long, 1.5-2 mm broad; lowest lobe 0.8-1 cm long, 2.5-3 mm broad. Vexillum 1.15-1.4 cm long, 8-9 mm broad, obovate with a linear claw 1.5 mm long; alae 0.9-1 cm long, 3 mm broad, with a linear claw 4 mm long; carina 5-6 mm long, 2.5-3 mm broad, with a linear claw 4.5-5 mm long. Ovary pilose; style 4-5 mm long, pilose.
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Resprouting subshrub to 40 cm, branches densely white-or silver-hairy. Leaves 1-foliolate, elliptic, hairy, margins scaberulous; stipules hairy. Flowers purple, calyx densely black-and white-hairy.
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