Shrub up to 1 m in height, spiny, hermaphrodite, cushion-shaped or semiprostrate, highly branched, with tortuous stems and erect branches. Stem and older branches with brown bark, longitudinally fissured, turning glabrous. Young branchlets longitudinally striated, sericeous and turning hairy at the ribs, with a spiny or sharp tip. Leaves alternate, unifoliolate and at least some trifoliolate, with stipules \u2014stipular organ with 3 ribs\u2014, subsessile, with leaflets 3-15 \u00d7 1-3 mm, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, usually mucronate, attenuated at the base, green, sericeous-silvery on both sides. Flowers solitary or in racemiform groups of 2-4(5) at the axils of the branches of the current year, pedicellate, with pedicel up to 7 mm, sericeous. Calyx 7-8 mm, sericeous, split into 2 subequal lips and usually longer than the tube, the upper lip bipartite in 2 ovate-triangular segments, and the lower lip tridentate, with linear-lanceolate ciliolate teeth. Corolla 11-15 mm, papilionoid, yellow, with standard ovate, rounded or emarginate at the apex, sericeous on the dorsal side, longer than the wings, wings glabrous, and keel hairy. Androecium monadelphous with 10 stamens. Ovary sericeous, and terminal stigma. Pod 12-23 \u00d7 4-6 mm, linear-oblong, compressed, densely sericeous, with 2-4 seeds. Seeds 1.75-2 mm, ovoid-subglobose, smooth, brown, without an aril.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12306","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n