Suffruticulose; stems several, branching, 15-68 cm long, pilose. Leaves alter-nate, elliptic to ovate, acute or acuminate apically, cuneate basally, (the lower sometimes oval and obtuse), with ca 5 pairs of lateral nerves, somewhat reticulate, pilose above and beneath, usually more densely so along the veins beneath, 2.5-8 cm long, 1-3.5 cm wide; petioles 1-2 mm long, pilose. Racemes loosely flowered, 2-10 cm long (including the short axis), densely pilose; bracts deciduous, linear to linear-lanceolate, pilose, 1.8-3 mm long. Flowers blue or purple, the pedicels 1.5-3.3 mm long; outer sepals lanceolate, acute or acuminate, spreading pilose, all 3 ca equal, 3-5 mm long (occasionally 1 to 0.5 mm longer); wings oblong, rounded apically, cuneate basally, pilose along the costa, 7-10 mm long, 3.8-5 mm wide; upper petals narrowly obovate-spatulate, ciliate below or glabrescent, equaling the keel; keel 6.5-8 mm long, without appendages; staminal tube slightly split to ca halfway into 2 bundles each of 4 partly free filaments, the filaments 1.5-2.2 mm long; ovary oblong, 1.5-3.5 mm long, 0.8-1.1 mm wide, pubescent, the style curved, 3.2-4.5 mm long, the stigmas 2, slightly spaced, the outer sub-apical on a small stalk, the inner sessile. Capsules ovoid to orbicular, 7.5-1 1 mm long, 6.5-10 mm wide, spreading-pilose; seeds long, pilose; aril membranaceous, umbraculiform, 2.5-4 mm long, pilose, the margin irregularly toothed.
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