Suffrutex or shrub up to 1.5(4) m in height, broom-like, unarmed, hermaphrodite, highly branched from the base, with erect stems \u2014sometimes with one or several thick trunks, which branch towards the end\u2014 and divaricate branches, broom-like, hardly foliose \u2014promptly deciduous\u2014. Stems and old branches with fissured brown bark, turning glabrous. Young branchlets striated longitudinally, with (8)11-12(13) T-shaped ribs, with sericeous hairs along the ribs and short uncinate hairs along the valleys. Leaves alternate, unifoliolate, with stipules \u2014stipular organ with 3 ribs\u2014, with leaflets 3-10 \u00d7 0.8-2 mm, linear-lanceolate, attenuated at the base, petiolulate, sharp, green, sericeous on both sides, more sericeous on the underside. Inflorescences racemiform, axillary, on the stems of the previous year, with 3-30 pedicellate flowers \u2014sometimes reduced to 1-2 flowers\u2014, with pedicel up to 2 mm, sericeous. Calyx 2.5-5.5 mm, densely sericeous, deeply split into 2 lips usually smaller than the tube, the upper lip bipartite into 2 ovate segments, and the lower lip trifid or tridentate, subequal or somewhat larger than the upper lip. Corolla 7-13 mm, papilionoid, yellow, marcescent, with standard ovate or triangular-lanceolate, apiculate at apex, sericeous along the midrib subequal to the wings in size, and keel clearly longer. Androecium monadelphous, with 10 stamens. Ovary hairy at least at the margin, and stigma elliptical, introrse. Pod 7-9 \u00d7 3-4 mm, ovoid-acuminate, biconvex, sericeous or sometimes hairy only along the suture, 1(2) seeds. Seeds 2.3-3.5 mm, ovoid or subglobose, smooth, brown, without an aril.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12315","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n