Plants suffruticose or decumbent. Stems slender, striate, decumbent, young parts densely clothed with cano-or rufo-pubescence, becoming glabrous. Leaves trifoliolate, stipulate, petiolate; petioles up to 5 mm long; leaflets 0.8-1.6 cm long, 4-6 mm broad, cuneate or cordate, recurved-mucronate, nigro-punctate, pubescent. Stipules up to 6 mm long, adnate to the base of the petiole, hyaline, ovate, very acute. Flowers axillary, 1-3 together, often crowded at the ends of the branches. Pedicels up to 2 mm long. Calyx-tube 2-3 mm long, 3.5-5 mm in diameter, villous or sparsely hirsute; lobes lanceolate, acute, long ciliate, villous or sparsely hirsute, shortly pilose on the inner surface; upper and lateral lobes 1-4 mm long, 0.5-1 mm broad; lowest lobe 3-6.5 mm long, 1-2 mm broad; glands present on tube and lobes, especially on the lowest lobe. Vexillum 4.5-7 mm long, 4-6 mm broad, obovate, with a channelled claw 1.5-3 mm long; alae 4.5-7 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm broad, with a linear claw 2-3 mm long; carina 2.5-4 mm long, 1-1.5 mm broad, with a linear claw 2.5-3 mm long. Ovary glabrous; style 3-4 mm long, glabrous.
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Perennial, suffrutescent subshrub, with trailing, resprouting branches, up to 0.2 m high. Leaves shortly petiolate, trifoliolate. Leaflets widely obovate-obcordate, recurved mucronate and somewhat pubescent; prominently nigro-punctate in dried specimens. Stipules adnate to petioles, ciliate. Inflorescence axillary. Flowers 2 or 3 together, pale pink to purplish. Flowering time Nov.
Trailing resprouting subshrub. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets obovate-obcordate, tips strongly recurved, glabrescent; stipules ciliate. Flowers pale pink, mauve-purple, calyx softly hairy and glandular, lowest sepal larger.
Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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