Shrub, up to 3 m in height, evergreen, hermaphrodite, that in favourable conditions can become a small tree reaching up to 5(7) m, very ramose, branching upright or extended-erect, with very dense foliage, green-greyish. Trunk thick, sometimes well defined, with reddish-brown or yellowish bark that peels off into longitudinal strips, as in the older branches. Branchlets densely covered with silky-whitish hairs. Leaves alternate, trifoliolate, with subequal leaflets 7-20 \u00d7 1-2(3) mm, linear or linear-lanceolate, but always linear in appearance due to the margins being inrolled upwards, acute, slightly attenuated at the base, sessile, glabrescent, green-greyish on the upper side, and villous-silky and green on the underside. Inflorescence in very dense terminal racemes (6-30 flowers) and long (up to 12 cm), with villous peduncle and pedicels. Calyx with campanulate tube 3-3.5 mm, bilabiate, villous-silky, not glandular; the upper lip divided up to the base into 2 laciniae ovate-lanceolate and longly acuminate; the lower lip slightly longer divided up to halfway into 3 linear subulate teeth. Corolla papilionoid, yellow, with a pubescent standard, silky on the dorsal side; wings slightly shorter, glabrous, and keel the same length as the standard, slightly pubescent at the base. Androecium monadelphous, with 10 stamens. Pod 2-6.5 \u00d7 0.6-1 cm, linear-oblong, compressed, covered with red to blackish glandular tubercles, dehiscent. Seeds 2-8, ovoid, compressed, brownish and smooth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12423","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n