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Leaves 6-20 cm, alternate, bipinnate, petiolate, with subulate deciduous stipules, and 4-6(9) pairs of pinnae, each with (8)10-15(25) pairs of leaflets (4)6-12(17) \u00d7 1-4(5) mm, sessile or subsessile, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, rounded apex and sometimes mucronate, attenuated at the base, entire margin, appressed-puberulous on both surfaces, a light green on the upper side and dull green or yellowish-green on the underside. Inflorescences racemiform, corymbiform, terminal, with 5-20 flowers with long pubescent pedicels \u2014the lower flowers with longer pedicels\u2014. Calyx 2-3 cm, with 5 sepals fused into a basal dome-shaped structure, with teeth <em>c. <\/em>1.8 cm, opened in star-shape, oblong-lanceolate, keeled, fleshy, apiculate, green. Corolla with 5 petals 16-38 \u00d7 18-42 mm, patent, oblong-obovate or obovate, with scalloped-crispate margin, the upper petal predominantly yellow and smaller than the others, these white at first turning yellowish. 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