Shrubs or erect perennial herbs to 1 m tall; stems usually ridged and densely velvety with yellowish-brownish pubescence. Leaves to 30 cm long; petioles 2-5 cm long; rachis 10-25 cm long; leaflets 17-41, most often 25-35, narrowly elliptic to linear, mucronate, 4-6 cm long, 0.5-1.5 cm wide, pubescent above, more densely pubescent and paler beneath; leaflets with the 15-20 pairs of main side nerves sometimes obscured by pubescence beneath; petiolules ca. 2 mm long; stipules linear, to 15 mm long, apparently persistent. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, to 30 cm long, the peduncle 2-8 cm long, the nodes 15-25 or more, the buds 2-6 per node; bracts linear, to 8 mm long; pedicels 2-5 mm long. Flowers drying to 20 mm long; calyx densely hairy, 5-8 mm long, the lobes about equaling the tube, the lower lobe symmetrically tapered, narrow triangular, the lateral lobes unlike the lower lobe, abruptly and obliquely narrowed to an acute or sometimes acuminate tip; petals apparently white to pink, the standard circular to oblong, ca. 15 mm long, densely hairy on the back, the claw to 3 mm long, the wings narrow, to 15 mm long, the claw 3 mm long, slightly adherent to the keel, the keel narrow, oblong, to 17 mm long, the claw to 4 mm long; staminal tube 10-15 mm long, the vexillary stamen adnate to the tube for part of the length, basally free; ovary silky, linear, the ovules 10-13, the style hairy above. Fruit more or less straight, linear, to 5 cm long and 5 mm wide, hairy; calyx persistent, but somewhat torn; seeds 8-13, oblong, 3.0-3.5 mm long, brown, apparently often faintly mottled.
Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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