Shrub or small tree up to 3 m in height, unarmed, hermaphrodite, with stems and branches highly branched from the base, upright and turning somewhat pendulous, very flexible, with few leaves. Stems and branches with brownish bark. Young branchlets with 11-14 T-shaped ribs, sericeous-silvery at first and then turning greenish, glabrous. Leaves unifoliolate, alternate, subsessile, very quickly deciduous, with stipules, with leaflet 4-8 mm, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, entire, sericeous-silvery on both sides. Inflorescence racemose, lax, axillary, with 10-26 flowers briefly pedicellate, each accompanied with 2 promptly caducous bracteoles. Calyx 3-4.5 mm, campanulate-cylindrical, bilabiate, with lips shorter than the tube, the upper lip bipartite and the lower lip tridentate and with shorter teeth, reddish or \u00b1 violet, glabrescent. Corolla 8-16 mm, papilionoid, white, with an elliptical standard, apiculate, sericeous on the whole dorsal side or only along the midrib, wings subequal in size and keel much shorter. Androecium monadelphous, with 10 stamens. Ovary glabrous \u2014except along the suture line\u2014, and stigma globose. Pod 10-20 \u00d7 9-14 mm, \u00b1 globose, somewhat asymmetric, keeled along the suture line, apiculate, glabrous, dehiscent, green at first and then yellowish-brown, with 1 seed, rarely 2 or 3\uf02e\uf020Seeds 5-8.5 mm, ellipsoidal, smooth, black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12366","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n