Erect, perennial herb, up to 40 mm high; stems slender, strigose. Leaves digitately 4-foliolate. Leaflets filiform, pellucid-dotted. Stipules leafy, peltate, acutely spurred at base. Flowers yellow with reddish centre, in interrupted terminal spikes, concealed by slender, ciliate, lanceolate, acute, 5-veined, pellucid-dotted bracts. Flowering time Nov.-Apr. Fruit a loment with 4 or 5 articles, articles reticulate, obscured with many hairy bristles.