Stems simple, ascending or decumbent, branching from the base, clothed with long white hairs. Leaves 1-6-jugate, 2.5-11 cm long; leaflets obovate-cuneate, retuse, mucronate, glabrous above, pilose below, 2.5-5.5 cm long, 0.8-2.2 cm broad. Stipules broad, ovate, 5-7 nerved, pilose, 0.7-1.5 cm long, 3-5 mm broad. Peduncles terminal, 7-12.5 cm long, flowers almost capitate in a short dense raceme at the apex. Flowers purple, 1.8-2 cm long; pedicels 5-8 mm long, pilose, bracts ovate, soon caducous. Calyx pilose, lobes longer than tube, linear-lanceolate. Ovary with margins densely pilose. Style bearded.