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Leaves digitate with (1)3–7 leaflets and a pair of stipellae (very rarely an occasional leaf produced with a short rachis between a lower pair of leaflets and 3 digitate terminal leaflets); petiole 3–100(130) mm long (see note below), variously pubescent; leaflets (25)32–70(95) × (3)5–15 mm, obovate to linear, from 2.5 to 16 times as long as broad, rounded to subacute at the apex, the upper surface glabrous or very rarely appressed-pubescent, the lower surface appressed or spreading-pubescent; stipellae 2–5 mm long, subulate; stipules 3–5(7) × 1–1.5 mm, narrowly triangular.
A herb. It can grow for one year or longer. It has a woody rootstock. It is slender and can be climbing. It can be 1 m long. The stems are hairy. The leaves have 4-5 leaflets. The leaflets are narrowly oval and 15-85 mm long by 4-18 mm wide. The flowers are in groups 15 cm long near the ends of branches. The flowers are pink. The pods are narrow and 25-35 mm long by 3-5 mm wide. They are flat and hairy.
Annual, occasionally perennial herb, up to 1 m high. Leaves 4-or 5-foliolate, palmate or digitate; leaflets narrowly obovate, 15-85 x 4-18 mm, margins thickened, often with yellowish veins. Flowers: in a lax, few-flowered raceme; corolla mauve; Dec.-Apr. Pods linear, 25-35 x 3-5 mm, flat, pubescent.
Flowers in aerial terminal racemes up to 15(25) cm long, and also in shorter, geotropic, whitish, subterranean racemes (see note below); aerial inflorescences with lanceolate-acuminate bracts 2–4 × 1 mm, and pedicels 3–7 mm long.
Ovary pubescent; style glabrous, subcapitate, caducous; aerial pods 22–35 × 3–4 mm, linear-oblong, pubescent, brownish, (4)5–7-seeded; subterranean pods 7–10 × 3–4 mm, pubescent, whitish, 1(2)-seeded.
Calyx 3–4(5) mm long, appressed or spreading-pubescent, with the teeth subequal and about equalling the tube, the 2 upper ones joined for ? to ½ their length.
Perennial with prostrate branches up to 100 cm long arising from a woody vertical stock, often with subterranean inflorescences.
Petals pink to purple, 5–9 mm long; standard limb subtruncate to subcuneate; keel considerably shorter than wing petals.
Stems puberulous to densely spreading-pubescent.
Wide-climbing, slender, perennial herb
Stamen tube 6–7 mm.
Tuberous roots
Pink flowers
