Subshrub or shrub, up to 1.5(2) m in height, perennial, hermaphrodite, very ramose, branching extended or extended-erect; sometimes creeping, with prostrate stems and young upright branchlets. Trunk and older branches with \u00b1 greyish-brown bark, that peels off into longitudinal strips. Young branches striated, green, densely villous. Leaves alternate, trifoliolate, with leaflets 6-11 \u00d7 3.5-6 mm, subequal, broadly lanceolate, oblanceolate or oblong, acute, attenuated at the base, subsessile, with an entire margin and slightly or not at all involute, glabrous or with some hairs and green on the upper side, villous and slightly lighter on the underside. Inflorescence in terminal racemes, \u00b1 dense (5-30 flowers), with villous peduncle and pedicels. Calyx 2-2.5 mm, campanulate, bilabiate, villous, glandular (in Moroccan plants) or without glands (in Algerian plants); the upper lip divided to the base into 2 oval-lanceolate acuminate laciniae; the lower lip longer, divided on its upper third into 3 triangular-subulate teeth. Corolla papilionoid, yellow, with a standard pubescent on the dorsal side; wings slightly shorter, glabrous, and keel almost as long as the standard, very recurved upwards, pubescent at the base. Androecium monadelphous, with 10 stamens. Pods 2-6 \u00d7 0.4-0.6 cm, linear-oblong, compressed, with numerous dark brown glandular tubercles, dehiscent. Seeds 2-10, ovoid, compressed, brown and smooth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12432","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n