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Leaves 4-foliolate (rarely less); leaflets 5–30 × 2–8(9) mm, lanceolate, or narrowly elliptic, acute and apiculate at the apex, cuneate at the base, glabrous or slightly pubescent, densely glandular-punctate or sometimes mostly glandular-punctate along the margins; petiole 5–18 mm long; petiolules 0.2–1 mm long, glabrous or pubescent; stipules 5–15 mm long including the 1.5–5 mm long spur, 1.5–3 mm wide, narrowly to broadly lanceolate, glabrous, punctate or not.
Procumbent, branched, perennial herb or subshrub. Leaves digitately 4-foliolate. Leaflets lanceolate to elliptic, pellucid-dotted especially on lower surface. Stipules conspicuous, leafy, peltate, acutely spurred at base. Flowers yellow or orange, in interrupted terminal spikes, concealed by large, peltate, 5-veined, pellucid-dotted bracts. Flowering time Oct.-Mar. Fruit a loment with 4 or 5 articles, articles reticulate, with large glands, without bristles.
Slender, wiry, glandular-punctate subshrub. Leaves 2-or 4-foliolate, leaflets elliptic; stipules leafy, peltate. Flowers in interrupted spikes, concealed by large, peltate bracts, yellow. Pods segmented and fragmenting, reticulate-tuberculate.
Inflorescences 1.5–20 cm long; peduncle 2–4 cm long; bracts 6–14 × 2.5–5.5 mm, elliptic to ovate, acute, glabrous or the margins distinctly ciliate, sparsely to densely pellucid-punctate.
Fruits 15–23 mm long, of 4–7 articles; each article 2–2.5(3.2) mm long and wide, glabrous and glandular or with few to many glabrous or retrorsely pubescent bristles.
Seeds pale brown, 1.8–2.3 × 1.2–1.5 × 0.6 mm, ellipsoid-reniform, slightly beaked at one end beyond the small eccentric hilum.
Stems mostly much branched at the base, usually glabrous but sometimes slightly pubescent (very rarely densely pubescent).
Standard yellow, often lined with red or purple, 8.5–10 × 9–10 mm; wings yellow; keel yellow or greenish.
Perennial herb (rarely annual) with decumbent or prostrate stems 15–75 cm long.
Calyx tube 1.5–2 mm long; lobes 2.5–3.5 mm long.
