Perennial prostrate or climbing herb 0·5–0·8 m. long.. Stems densely pubescent with short grey hairs.. Leaflets 3, the terminal one oblate, the laterals obliquely ovate-rhomboid, 0·8–2·1 cm. long, 0·8–2·4 cm. wide, broadly rounded or almost truncate at the apex, rounded at the base, densely pilose on both sides with short white hairs, obscurely glandular-punctate beneath; petiole 0·5–2 cm. long; rhachis 1·5–6 mm. long; petiolules 1 mm. long; stipules ovate, 3·5–4·5 mm. long, 2–2·5 mm. wide, densely pilose.. Inflorescences slender; rhachis 1–1·5 cm. long, 3–5-flowered; peduncle 1–4·5 cm. long; pedicels 2 mm. long; bracts deciduous, 3 mm. long, 1·3 mm. wide, densely pubescent.. Calyx densely pubescent; tube 2·5 mm. long; lobes oblong-lanceolate or narrowly triangular, 2·5–3·5 mm. long, the upper pair joined for two-thirds of their length.. Corolla probably very pale without purple veining, but colour not known; standard rounded-obovate, 9·5 mm. long, 7·5 mm. wide, slightly emarginate, densely pubescent.. Pod falcate, 2·2 cm. long, 7 mm. wide, covered with short hairs, longer hairs nearly 1 mm. long and glands.. Seeds chestnut with black spots, oblong-globose, longest dimension 3·2 mm., shorter dimension 2·5 mm., 2 mm. thick; hilum rounded, minute, excentric.
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