Description:
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Subshrub, several-stemmed from a woody rootstock, (0.1)0.5–1.2 m tall, developing numerous shortish flowering branches above; branches ribbed, densely strigulose with frequently brown-based hairs, sometimes with slightly longer hairs interspersed. Leaves mostly 3-foliolate, uppermost sometimes 1-foliolate; leaflets 5–22 × 2–10 mm, oblong-oblanceolate to oblong-obovate or obovate, slightly coriaceous, densely strigulose or strigose-puberulent beneath; petiole 3–15(20) mm long, channelled; stipules 0. Primary racemes 2–5 cm long, ± laxly 6–10-flowered, with numerous shorter inflorescences developed on lateral branches and in the axils. Calyx 4–5 mm long, densely strigulose or strigose-puberulent; lobes acuminately or attenuately triangular, 0.8–2 times as long as the tube, often slightly involute, ± lanate inside (particularly the lower one). Standard elliptic-obovate to obovate, yellow, sometimes lined brown, glabrous or nearly so outside; wings as long as the keel or a little shorter; keel 8–11 mm long, angular, with a narrow twisted beak, slightly incurved at the tip. Pods subsessile, 6–8 × 4–6 mm, ovoid-globose, pointed, strigose-puberulent, 2-seeded. Seeds 2–2.5 mm long, rounded-cordiform, smooth, dark, with a small aril. |