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Erect subshrub or woody herb, 0.4-2 m tall. Stems pubescent, the younger parts usually covered with a dense grey or silvery velvety tomentum. Leaflets 3, usually paler beneath, 0.7-4 x 0.6-3.7 cm, elliptic, obovate, round or rhombic, less often distinctly acute, the laterals oblique, rounded or subacute at the apex, rounded at the base, pubescent to velvety and usually silvery-grey on both surfaces, gland dots only visible in the more sparsely covered leaflets; venation prominent beneath; petiole 8-30 mm long; rhachis 2-8 mm long; petiolules 1-2 mm long; stipules.3 x 1.2 mm, ovate-lanceolate, pubescent. Inflorescences fairly dense, axillary or terminal; rhachis 2.5-5 cm long; peduncle 1.5-6 cm long; pedicels 2 mm long; bracts deciduous, 3 x 0.5 mm, lanceolate, pubescent. Calyx silvery-grey pubescent; tube 2.5-4 mm long; lobes 2-5 mm long, lanceolate, the upper pair joined for ± half to three-quarters of their length. Standard yellow, veined and flushed with deep purple outside, 7-10(15) x 5-10 mm, obovate, silvery pubescent and with orange glands; wings deep yellow; keel pale greenish-yellow. Pods (12) 16-18 x 5-6.5 mm, oblong-falcate, covered with tangled grey or silvery hairs and sometimes with sparse longer yellow hairs intermixed. Seeds reddish-brown, densely mottled blackish, 4 x 3 x 2.2 mm, oblong-reniform.
Leaflets 3, usually paler beneath, 0.7–4 × 0.6–3.7 cm, elliptic, obovate, round or rhombic, less often distinctly acute, the laterals oblique, rounded or subacute at the apex, rounded at the base, pubescent to velvety and usually silvery-grey on both surfaces, gland dots only visible in the more sparsely covered leaflets; venation prominent beneath; petiole 8–30 mm long; rhachis 2–8 mm long; petiolules 1–2 mm long; stipules 3 × 1.2 mm, ovate-lanceolate, pubescent.
Standard yellow, veined and flushed with deep purple outside, 7–10(15) × 5–10 mm, obovate, silvery pubescent and with orange glands; wings deep yellow; keel pale greenish-yellow.
Inflorescences fairly dense, axillary or terminal; rhachis 2.5–5 cm long; peduncle 1.5–6 cm long; pedicels 2 mm long; bracts deciduous, 3 × 0.5 mm, lanceolate, pubescent.
Calyx silvery-grey pubescent; tube 2.5–4 mm long; lobes 2–5 mm long, lanceolate, the upper pair joined for ± half to three-quarters of their length.
Pods (12)16–18 × 5–6.5 mm, oblong-falcate, covered with tangled grey or silvery hairs and sometimes with sparse longer yellow hairs intermixed.
Stems pubescent, the younger parts usually covered with a dense grey or silvery velvety tomentum.
Seeds reddish-brown, densely mottled blackish, 4 × 3 × 2.2 mm, oblong-reniform.
Erect subshrub or woody herb, 0.4–2 m tall.
