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Leaflets 3, 1.2–7 × 1–6.7 cm, terminal broadly rhombic or triangular, gradually narrowed to an obtuse or subacute apex, laterals obliquely rhombic-ovate with lower margin distinctly gibbous, sparsely pubescent or glabrescent above, pubescent on the nerves and veins beneath and with numerous golden gland dots (densely velvety in a South African variety); petiole 1.2–4.2 cm long; rhachis 0.7–2.2 cm long; stipules 4–8 × 1.5–2.5 mm, ovate to lanceolate, acuminate.
Vigorous, perennial climber, up to 1 m high, or prostrate; stems slender, pubescent. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate. Leaflets ovate-rhomboid or deltoid; sparsely pubescent or subglabrous on upper surface, pubescent on veins; dotted with raised golden glands on lower surface. Inflorescence long-pedunculate, many-flowered, lax, axillary raceme, longer than leaves. Flowers yellow, with purple venation on outside of standard petal. Flowering time Dec.-Apr.
Perennial, herb, climbing up to 1 m high. Stems twining or procumbent; pubescent. Leaves trifoliolate; terminal leaflets thin, ovate-rhomboid; stipules ovate to narrowly ovate, up to 6 mm long. Flowers: in laxly, several-flowered racemes, longer than leaves; corolla large, up to 15 mm long, yellow and purplish brown; Oct.-Dec.
A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It climbs up shrubs. It grows 1 m high. It has a taproot. The leaves are alternate and have 3 leaflets. The leaflets are 1-7 cm long by 1-7 cm wide. They are oval. The fruit are pods about 3 cm long. They have green veins. There are 2 seeds in each pod. The seeds are 4 mm across.
Calyx puberulous; tube 3–4 mm long; lobes unequal, ± obtuse to narrowly acuminate, the upper pair joined almost to the apex to form a lobe 1.5–4 mm long; lateral lobes 1.5–5 mm long, broadly triangular, lowest lobe 3–8 mm long, narrowly triangular to linear.
Inflorescences axillary, slender, lax, 4–15.5 cm long, unbranched or often with a patent secondary branchlet a short distance below the base of the main rhachis, rarely with many branches; pedicels 3–8 mm long.
Pods 2–4 × 0.8 cm, falcate, not inflated, finely pubescent and with sparse to dense long silky glandular-based hairs sometimes breaking off to leave small tubercles.
Prostrate or climbing shrublet. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, leaflets ovate-rhomboid. Flowers yellow with purple venation outside of standard petal.
Corolla yellow with purple veining; standard 10–17 × 12–14 mm, obovate, glabrous; wings yellow; keel green often with a dark tip.
Seeds dark reddish-brown with darker markings, 4.5 × 4 × 1.5 mm, rounded reniform, compressed.
Perennial twiner with slender wiry sparsely to densely pubescent stems 2–4 m long.
