A shrub, branching freely, branches ascending, appressedly puberulous when young, becoming quite glabrous. Leaves 3-6-jugate, shortly petiolate, 1-4 cm long; leaflets linear-oblanceolate, narrowed towards the base, apex obtuse or acute, mucronulate, glabrous above, pubescent below, 1.8-4.5 cm long, 2.5-5.5 mm broad. Stipules ovate, acute, pubescent or subglabrous, 5-nerved, 4-6 mm long, 2-3 mm broad. Peduncles up to 5 cm long, terminal, few-flowered (2-4 flowers); bracts ovate, sericeous, up to 5 mm long. Flowers about 2 cm long; pedicels 4-7 mm long, sericeous. Calyx densely fulvous silky, lobes not longer than the tube, upper lobe lanceolate-ovate, acute; lateral lobes a little shorter, deltoid-ovate, acute, lower broadly 2-dentate. Vexillum about 2 cm long and broad, densely fulvous silky without. Ovary with long fulvous hairs along the sutures. Style bearded. Legumes 2-7 cm long, 0.8 cm broad, fulvous along the margins.
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Ascending shrub, 0.5-3.0 m high; branching freely, appressed puberulous. Leaves 3-6-jugate, 10-40 mm long, shortly petiolate. Leaflets oblanceolate, narrowed towards base, mucronate; upper surface glabrous; lower surface pubescent. Stipules ovate, acute, 5-nerved, 4-6 x 2-3 mm. Inflorescences terminal, 2-4-flowered; peduncles up to 50 mm long. Flowers pink. Calyx: upper and lateral lobes ± ovate; lower lobes 2-dentate, densely tawny, silky. Petals: standard widely elliptic, silky on outside. Style bearded. Flowering time Jan., Feb. Pod 20-70 x 8 mm, tawny along margins.
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