Shrub or small tree up to 3(4) m in height, unarmed, hermaphrodite, deciduous, with extended-erect branches, fetid. Stems and older branches with a brownish, little or not at all fissured bark. Young branchlets greenish or reddish-brown, without ribs, sericeous at first, turning glabrescent. Leaves alternate, trifoliolate with petiole 5-20 mm, sericeous, and leaflets 3-7.5 \u00d7 1-2.5 cm, subsessile, elliptical, oblong-elliptical or oblong-obovate, acute, attenuated at the base, entire, somewhat discoloured, glabrous and matt green on the upper side, and lighter and sericeous on the underside; the central leaflet larger. Inflorescences racemose, very short, axillary, with 3-8 pedicellate flowers, with pedicel 5-10 mm, sericeous, without bracteoles. Calyx 8-10 mm, herbaceous, campanulate, bilabiate, with 5 teeth, the two upper teeth fused into a bidentate lip, green, sericeous, persistent at Fruiting. Corolla 18-28 mm, papilionoid, predominantly yellow, with standard ovate, obtuse, with green or brown-purple macules about halfway, glabrous, shorter wings and keel longer than the standard. Androecium with 10 free stamens. Ovary sericeous. Pod 6-15(20) \u00d7 1.5-2.5 cm, pendulous, linear or narrowly elliptical, compressed, green or greenish-yellowish at first, turning blackish, glabrous, with (1)2-6(8) seeds very prominent. Seeds 7.5-15 mm, kidney-shaped, purplish, sometimes with yellow spots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12294","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n