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Leaves 2-6 cm, alternate or in fascicles of 1-4 per node, bipinnate, glaucous at maturity, with filiform stipules promptly caducous, petiole 6-13 mm with a gland, pubescent, and with 1-3(4) pairs of pinnae, each with 1-2(3) pairs of leaflets (3)6-20(23) \u00d7 (2)6-12(14) mm, ovate or obovate, rounded at the tip and the base, subsessile, asymmetric, green both sides, glabrous or hairy, usually slightly hairier on the underside. Inflorescences spiciform, up to 3.5 cm long, shortly pedunculate \u2014peduncle 0.5-1.5 mm\u2014, white or creamy white, solitary, often \u00b1 pendulous, with a glabrous rachis, and numerous minute flowers. Calyx <em>c. <\/em>1 mm, campanulate, greenish-reddish, reddish when in bud, with 5 teeth triangular, subacute and glabrous. Corolla 2.5-3.5 mm, with 5 petals fused on their lower third, oblong, acute, white or creamy white, glabrous. Stamens numerous, free, with a white filament. Pod 2.5-6(8) cm \u00d7 (12)15-25 mm, linear-oblong, pendulous, sometimes slightly constricted between the seeds, highly compressed, obtuse at both ends, a pale brown, glabrous, dehiscent, with (1)2-3(4) seeds. 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