Plants covered with mostly white hairs. Stems prostrate, 5-30 cm, often zigzaglike bent, in basal parts glabrous or sparsely hairy, in upper parts loosely to rather densely covered with appressed to spreading white or partly black and white hairs 0.2-0.3(-0.4) mm. Leaves 1-2.5 cm; stipules 1.5-2 mm, sparsely hairy; petiole 0.3-0.5 cm, like rachis loosely to rather densely hairy, hairs subappressed to spreading, white, sometimes also some black; leaflets in 3-6 pairs, 2-4 × 1-2 mm, abaxially densely to rather densely covered with ± appressed, short, white hairs, more rarely also with black hairs, adaxially glabrous or sometimes with a few appressed hairs toward base and margins. Racemes loosely 1-4-flowered; peduncle 1-2 cm, rather densely covered with mostly appressed, short, white hairs; bracts 0.6-1 mm, mostly white hairy. Bracteoles mostly absent, if present, less than 0.3 mm. Calyx 3-5 mm, rather densely covered with subappressed to ascending or even spreading, short, white hairs, sometimes also with black hairs; teeth 1.5-2.5 mm. Petals pink or purple to violet; standard orbicular, 7-10 × 6-8.5 mm; wings 7-8 mm; keel 7-8 mm. Legumes with a stipe ca. 1 mm, 10-15 mm, 2.5-3 mm high and 5-7 mm wide, with a short beak and often persistent style, 1-locular, rather densely covered with ascending white hairs 0.2-0.3 mm.
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