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Each inflorescence axis terminated by a dense capitulum of flowers surrounded by conspicuous bracts which usually equal or exceed the calyces of the flowers, also often with flowers at 1–3(5) nodes below the terminal capitulum; bracts (4)6–8(9) × 0.5–1 mm, linear-triangular, purplish with villous whitish hairs, conspicuous and persistent; pedicels 3–5(7) mm long.
Calyx 3.5–6 mm long, usually purplish with villous greyish spreading hairs; upper teeth joined for not more than half their length; upper and lateral teeth about equalling the tube in length, the lower tooth up to 1.5 mm longer.
Pods 48–65 × (3.8)4–5 mm, usually minutely puberulent as well as having short, irregular or loosely appressed, usually geniculate hairs.
Stems, at least the lower parts, conspicuously clothed with spreading, irregular, usually whitish, geniculate hairs up to 2 mm long.
Petals pale to deep pink or occasionally purplish; standard (10)11–15(16) mm long, ± cuneate at the base.
Annual with a short taproot and tufterd habit with branching stem 30–100 cm high.
Ovary pubescent, particularly on the sutures; style pubescent.
Staminal tube joined above.
Seeds 11–15(16).
