Shrub or subshrub usually up to 0.7(1) m in height, cushion-shaped, unarmed, hermaphrodite, with highly branched stems, with alternate, opposite or whorled branches, and promptly deciduous leaves, giving an ephedroid aspect. Stems and old branches with red-brown bark, with 11-12 T-shaped ribs arranged close together, glabrescent. Young branchlets striated-ribbed longitudinally, green, sericeous. Leaves alternate or opposite, unifoliolate \u2014trifoliolate only at the base of young plants\u2014, with stipules, the stipular organ with 3 ribs confluent at the apex, leaflets 3-16 \u00d7 1.2-3 mm, usually lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, petiolulate, acute, green, \u00b1 sericeous on both sides. Inflorescence capituliform, terminal, with 5-13(20) flowers, subsessile or briefly pedicellate, with pedicel up to 2.5 mm, sericeous. Calyx 4.5-8 mm, sericeous, deeply split into 2 lips, the upper lip bipartite into 2 ovate lobes, and the lower lip longer, with 3 triangular-lanceolate teeth, the central tooth straight and the lateral teeth divergent. Corolla 9-14 mm, papilionoid, yellow, with an ovate standard, with rounded or truncate apex, entire or emarginate, recurved, almost entirely sericeous on the dorsal side, larger than the wings and the wings smaller than the keel. Androecium monadelphous, with 10 stamens. Ovary sericeous and stigma capitate. Pod 15-24 \u00d7 4-6 mm, linear-oblong, somewhat compressed and torulose, brown, sericeous, with 2-5 seeds. Seeds 2-3 mm, ovoid-polygonal, somewhat compressed, smooth, brown-blackish, bright, without an aril.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12339","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n