Suffrutescent perennials to 1.3 m, branched. above, often with 2-4 branchlets at a node, glabrous, angular, green. Leaves (2-)3-5 in whorls; petioles 4-10 mm long, glabrous; blades elliptic to less commonly ovate, basally somewhat attenu-ated, apically acute, the margins remotely crenate, glabrous, sparingly punctate, 4-7.5 cm long and 1.8-3 cm wide decreasing in size apically. Racemes glabrous, the axis elongating to ca 9 cm, the flowers loose; bracts ovate, glabrous, deciduous, 0.8-1 mm long. Flowers white, the pedicels to 3 mm long; outer sepals margin-ally ciliate, the largest ovate, concave, 2.3-2.5 mm long, the smaller 2 ovate to oblong and usually short-connate basally, sometimes free, 1-1.5 mm long; wings obovate to oblong-elliptic, apically rounded, basally short-clawed, marginally cili-ate, persistent, 3.2-3.8 mm long; petals with upper pair obovate, rounded, equal-ing the keel; keel 2.5-2.8 mm long with a crest 8-22-lobed (often irregularly forked and varying in size). Capsules widely oblong, glabrous, 4-5 mm long, 3.2-4 mm wide; seeds ovate, 4 mm long, densely pubescent with hairs copper colored at maturity; arils 2.5-3 mm long, the 2 lobes broadly obovate, appressed.
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