Shrub up to 1.5(2) m in height, unarmed, hermaphrodite, not highly branched, with upright stems, foliose especially towards the ends. Stems and old branches with greyish-brown bark, fissured longitudinally, turning glabrous. Young branchlets ribbed longitudinally, with 8 T-shaped ribs, sericeous-silvery at first. Leaves alternate, trifoliolate, with stipules, subsessile \u2014petiole less than 0.6 mm\u2014, with leaflets 8-30 \u00d7 1-5 mm, more than 5 times longer than wide, linear or narrowly elliptical, with revolute margins, attenuate at the base into a short petiolule, acute or obtuse, greenish and glabrescent on the upper side, and sericeous-silvery on the underside. Inflorescence racemiform, terminal, with 5-18 pedicellate flowers, with pedicel up to 5 mm, sericeous. Calyx 7-11 mm, sericeous, deeply split into 2 lips, the upper lip bipartite into 2 lanceolate segments, and the lower lip trifid. Corolla 12-14 mm, papilionoid, yellow, marcescent, with an ovate standard, notched, sericeous on the dorsal side, subequal or somewhat longer than the wings and the keel. Androecium monadelphous, with 10 stamens. Ovary sericeous and oblique stigma. Pod 15-21 \u00d7 5-6 mm, linear-oblong, compressed, at first green turning blackish, villous, with 1-5 seeds. Seeds 2.2-2.9 mm, \u00b1 ovoid or somewhat compressed, smooth, from greenish to brownish, with an aril.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12351","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n