Shrub up to 1.5-2 m in height, unarmed, hermaphrodite, with stems and branches highly branched from the base, upright at first and then somewhat pendulous, very flexible, with few leaves. Stems and branches with brown-green bark. Young branchlets with 8-11 ribs with inverted V-shape, sericeous-silvery at first and then greenish, glabrous. Leaves alternate, unifoliolate, subsessile, very quickly deciduous, with stipules, with leaflet 6-11 mm, lanceolate, entire, laxly sericeous-silvery on both sides. Inflorescence racemose, lax, axillary, with 8-17 flowers, briefly pedicellate, each accompanied by 2 promptly caducous bracteoles. Calyx 2.5-3.2 mm, obconic to subglobose, bilabiate, with lips shorter than the tube, the upper lip bipartite and the lower lip tridentate, whitish-green, glabrous. Corolla 4-5 mm, papilionoid, yellow, with an ovate standard, rounded or emarginate at the apex, glabrous, and wings and keel as long as the standard or shorter. Androecium monadelphous, with 10 stamens. Ovary glabrous, and globose stigma. Pod 7-13 \u00d7 5-8 mm, ovoid, subglobose or subreniform, glabrous, green first and then yellowish-brown, with 1(2) seeds that when mature they remain loose inside. Seeds 3.5-8 mm, ovoid, reniform, smooth, black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12372","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n