Suffruticose, erect, whole plant more or less greyish pubescent. Stems branching, terete. Leaves 3-12-jugate, 3-10.5 cm long, petiolate; leaflets 1.5-4 cm long, 0.5-1.2 cm broad, narrow oblong, obtuse or subacute, mucronate, thinly pilose or glabrous above, more or less densely canescent below; petiolules about 2 mm long. Stipules lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, striate, 0.5-1 cm long. Peduncles terminal and leaf-opposed, 11-20 cm long. Flowers 1.8-2.2 cm long 2-3 together in interrupted spicate glomerules. Bracts ovate, acuminate, 0.9-3.5 cm long, deciduous. Pedicels up to 1.2 cm long, short at first but lengthening as the flower develops. Calyx-tube 0.9-1.5 cm in diam., lobes 3-5 long and two upper connate and slightly shorter. Vexillum sericeous without, 1.8-2 cm long, and broad. Ovary 1.4-1.8 cm long, densely hairy along sutures. Style 0.6-1 cm long, bearded. Legumes hairy along sutures, compressed, 5-6 cm long, 8-9 mm broad.
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