Herbs, 2-3 cm tall, acaulescent, from a multiheaded caudex, with many marcescent petioles and stipules. Stipules narrowly triangular, ca. 5 × 3 mm, thinly membranous to scarious, glabrous, basally connate. Leaves 1.5-4 cm, 13-19-foliolate; leaflet blades oblong-elliptic, 3-7 × 1-2 mm, densely pubescent. Racemes compact, 3-6-flowered; peduncle 1.5-4 cm, subequal to or slightly longer than leaves; bracts triangular, ca. 2 × 1 mm, with dense trichomes. Calyx cylindric, 10-14 × 2-3 mm, with whitish trichomes; lobes triangular, 2-3 × ca. 2 mm, much shorter than tube. Corolla yellow; standard 2.2-2.5 cm, lamina orbicular, apex emarginate; wings 1.6-1.8 cm, lamina obovate; keel 1.6-1.8 cm, beak ca. 2 mm. Legume sessile, ovoid, ca. 1.2 cm, inflated, densely villous. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Jul-Aug. 2n = 48.
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