Leaflets 3, paler beneath, 1.3–6 × 0.7–4.3 cm, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, all acute or acuminate or terminal leaflets tricuspidate and laterals ± bicuspidate, all ± rounded at the base, pubescent and obscurely glandular on both surfaces; petiole 0.5–3.7 cm long; rhachis 2–17 mm long; petiolules 2–3.5 mm long; stipules 2–10 × 1–4 mm, lanceolate or ovate, veined, hairy.
Pods 17–20 × 7 mm, elliptic-oblong, apiculate, puberulous and with dense long yellow tubercular based hairs which are ultimately deciduous and leave a surface with a somewhat blistered appearance.
Calyx pubescent and with yellow tubercular based hairs; tube 4–5 mm long and wide; lobes 0.7–1.4 cm long, lanceolate, the lowest the longest, the upper pair free.
Inflorescences axillary and terminal; rhachis 2–5 cm long; peduncle 7–15 mm long; pedicels 2–3.5 mm long; bracts deciduous, 7–10 × 3.5–8 mm, elliptic.
Standard yellow, veined purple outside, (13)18–25 × 16 mm, obovate, slightly hairy near apex outside or glabrous.
Stems pubescent and, when young, also with dense longer yellow tubercular based glandular hairs.
Seeds dark brown with obscure pale markings, 4.5 × 3.5–5 × 2 mm, elliptic-reniform.
Erect or somewhat scrambling sticky shrub 0.6–1.8 m tall, smelling of balsam.