Stems several, up to 30 cm. long, erect from a short-lived woody rootstock, densely hispid with fulvous stiffly spreading hairs up to 2 mm. long.. Leaf-rhachis fulvous hirsute, 2–3 cm. long, including a petiole of ± 1 cm., prolonged 0–2 mm. beyond lateral leaflets; stipules linear-filiform, hispid, with one very distinct central nerve, up to 14 mm. long; leaflets 5–11, linear-oblanceolate, rounded or acute at apex, up to 4 cm. long and 6 mm. wide, glabrous above, hirsute beneath; main nerves ± 8 on each side, midrib prominent and fulvous beneath.. Flowers dull red in a dense terminal sessile subcapitate pseudoraceme; pedicels hirsute, ± 7 mm. long; bracts linear.. Calyx hirsute, the hairs 1.5 mm. long; tube 2 mm. long; teeth lanceolate, long-acuminate, up to 6 mm. long, the upper pair free to the base.. Standard silky fulvous outside, 14 mm. long, including a 4 mm. claw, the blade elliptic, narrowed gradually at the base, 8 mm. wide; keel glabrous.. Upper filament lightly attached, widened, but not callous or bent, 1.5 mm. above the base; filament-sheath 7 mm., free parts 2–3 mm., anthers 0.6 mm. long.. Ovules ± 6; style glabrous, gently curved throughout its length, ± 4 mm. long, penicillate.. Pod (immature) spreading horizontally, ± 2 cm. long, densely hirsute, silvery at the sides, brown at the sutures.. Seeds unknown.
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