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Leaves alternate, trifoliolate, without stipules, subsessile, with leaflets 8-20 \u00d7 2-6 mm, petiolulate \u2014petiolule <em>c. <\/em>2 mm\u2014, oblong-obovate, obtuse, apiculate, attenuated at the base, entire, glabrous, matt green to greenish-ashen on both sides. Inflorescences racemose, terminal, with 5-25 pedicelate flowers, with pedicel 3-5(8) mm, glabrous, with 2 bracteoles. Calyx 7-8 mm, herbaceous at first, turning papery, campanulate, bilabiate, greenish-yellow, with bidentate upper lip and tridentate lower lip, with smaller teeth, caducous before anthesis by a circumscissile break towards its base. Corolla <em>c. <\/em>15 mm, butterfly-shaped, papilionoid, glabrous, yellow, with an ovate obtuse standard, and wings and standard slightly longer than the keel. Androecium monadelphous, with 10 stamens. Ovary glabrous. Pod 4-6 \u00d7 0.6-1.5(2) cm, linear-oblong, highly compressed, acuminate, attenuated at the base, brown when mature, glabrous, dehiscing late, with 1-6 seeds very prominent externally. 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