Suffruticose, erect, sparsely branched, branches grey-pilose when young, at length glabrous. Leaves 3-6-jugate, petiolate, 5.5-13 cm long; leaflets oblong-obovate or cuneate, truncate or emarginate, mucronate, glabrous above, thinly appressedly grey-pilose below, 1-4.5 cm long, 0.4-1.3 cm broad. Stipules ovate-acuminate, pilose, densely ciliate along the margins, 0.5-1 cm long. Peduncles axillary and terminal, racemosely few-flowered at apex, 8-11 cm long, terminal peduncle occasionally up to 20 cm long; pedicels 2-9 mm long; flowers subtended by broad ovate bracts, soon caducous. Flower 1.5 cm long. Calyx long pilose, tube 3 mm long, 8 mm in diam., lobes unequal, 2.5-3.5 mm long. Vexillum densely clothed with adpressed silky golden-brown hairs without, about 1.5 cm long and 1.4 cm broad. Ovary 1.1 cm long. Style 5 mm long, bearded along inner side. Legume 4 cm long, 7 mm broad, glabrous.
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