Teramnus repens (Taub.) Baker F.

Perennial mat-forming or at least prostrate herb, with several shoots up to 0·5–1·8 m. long from a small rootstock.. Stems slender, usually much branched, densely covered with spreading hairs mostly over 1 mm. long.. Leaflets almost round, obovate or oblong, 0·7–4·7 cm. long, 0·5–2·4 cm. wide, broadly rounded or subacute and apiculate at the apex, rounded at the base, glabrescent or pilose above, pubescent on the nerves beneath; petiole 1–3·7 cm. long; rhachis 1·5–4 mm. long; petiolules 1 mm. long; stipules ovate or lanceolate, 3–4 mm. long, 1·5–2 mm. wide, ribbed.. Inflorescences 2–5-flowered; rhachis 0·5–6 cm. long; peduncle 0·6–4 cm. long; pedicels 2–6 mm. long; bracteoles lanceolate, 1·5 mm. long.. Calyx with spreading hairs; tube 1·5 mm. long; lobes 1·5–2 mm. long, the upper pair joined for a half to two-thirds of their length.. Standard white, pink or pale mauve, obovate, 6 mm. long, 4 mm. wide.. Pods linear, curved, 2·2–4 cm. long, 2·5–3 mm. wide, usually covered with ± spreading hairs; beak ± 1–1·5 mm. long.. Seeds reddish-brown or black, subglobose, oblong-ovoid or even subcylindrical, compressed, longest dimension 2–2·8 mm., shorter dimension 1·5–2 mm., thickness 1·5–2 mm., smooth or granular.