Pycnospora lutescens (Poir.) Schindl.

Erect or prostrate herb or subshrub, with several to many stems 10–30(–50) cm. long from a woody rootstock.. Stems branched, pubescent.. Leaflets oblong, elliptic, obovate or almost round, 0.6–3.4(–4.3) cm. long, 0.6–1.8(–2.5) cm. wide, rounded and mucronulate at the apex, narrowed to a rounded or subcordate base, puberulous or pubescent above and pubescent with longer hairs beneath; venation reticulate beneath; petiole 0.7–1 cm. long, channelled; rhachis 0.3–1 cm. long; petiolules 1–2 mm. long; stipules persistent, 4–7 mm. long.. Inflorescences with a rhachis 3–7 cm. long; peduncles 0–1 cm. long; pedicels 4–6 mm. long, all pubescent and with conspicuous bulbous-based hairs; bracts ovate or oblong, 5–6.5 mm. long, 2–3 mm. wide, caudate, strongly striate.. Calyx-tube 1–1.5 mm. long; lobes triangular, 3–3.5 mm. long, acuminate.. Corolla blue or violet; standard 7 mm. long, 7–8 mm. wide.. Pod 0.7–1.2 cm. long, 3–5 mm. wide, at first yellow but later becoming black, pubescent.. Seeds yellow-brown when ripe, oblong-reniform, longest dimension 2.2 mm., shorter dimension 1.4 mm., 0.7 mm. thick.. Fig. 68.