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Flowers in terminal and axillary racemes up to 10 cm long, with the nodes subtended by reduced (mostly unifoliolate) foliage leaves which are successively smaller in size towards the apex where they appear as grey tomentose linear-elliptic bracts c.5 mm long; pedicels 8–11 mm long.
Pods c.35 × 7.5 mm, slightly curved and somewhat constricted laterally between the seeds, shortly and densely pubescent, apparently indehiscent but breaking up irregularly, the epicarp flaking off from the endocarp.
Calyx 4.5–5.5 mm long, shortly appressed grey pubescent; upper teeth fused for most of their length to form an acute triangle free for c.0.7 mm at the apex.
Petals dark reddish; standard 14–16 mm long, cuneate at the base, wings and keel petals slightly shorter.
Seeds 3–5, c.5 × 3 × 1.5 mm, brownish; aril small and inconspicuous.
Ovary appressed-tomentose; style pubescent, upwardly reflexed.
Stems grey ascending-tomentose.
Stamen tube joined above.
Shrub 2–3 m high.
