Herbs, 5-12 cm tall, acaulescent, from a multiheaded caudex, with persistent thatch of petioles and stipules. Stipules with a triangular free part, 8-10 mm, membranous, with appressed dense white trichomes, adnate to petiole, basally connate. Leaves 3-8 cm, 7-11-foliolate; petiole and rachis with spreading white trichomes; petiole 1-4 cm; leaflet blades narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, 3-12 × 1-3 mm, both surfaces with appressed long stout trichomes. Racemes subcompact, 3-5-flowered; peduncle 6-11 cm, as long as or slightly shorter than leaves, thin, with spreading white trichomes; bracts lanceolate to linear, 3-4 mm, herbaceous. Calyx cylindric, 8-10 × 3-3.5 mm, with spreading white trichomes; lobes lanceolate-subulate, as long as or slightly shorter than tube. Corolla yellow; standard 1.7-2 × 0.9-1 cm, lamina oblong, apex emarginate; wings 1.6-1.8 × 0.5-0.6 cm, lamina oblique, apex rounded; keel ca. 1.7 × 0.6 cm, beak 2-2.5 mm. Legume sessile, ovoid to oblong, 2-2.5 × 0.6-1 cm, inflated, thickly membranous, beak ca. 5 mm. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Jun-Aug.
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