Subshrub or shrub, up to 1.5 m in height, evergreen, hermaphrodite, very ramose, \u00b1 upright. Trunk and older branches with greyish-brown bark, which peels off into longitudinal strips. Young branchlets green, densely villous, then glabrescent. Leaves alternate, trifoliolate, with leaflets 2.5-9 \u00d7 1.5-5 mm, subequal, obovate-elliptic, obtuse, attenuated at the base, subsessile, with margin slightly involute, glabrous and green on both sides, sometimes slightly villous on the underside and along the margin. Inflorescence in very short racemes, in umbelliform or capitulliform groups, terminal, usually with only 2-5 flowers, with villous peduncles and pedicels. Calyx 7-10 mm, campanulate, bilabiate, very villous, not glandular, with tube 2-2.5 mm; the upper lip divided up to the base into 2 elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate laciniae; the lower lip slightly longer, divided halfway into 3 subulate teeth, with the central tooth shorter than the lateral ones \u2014in all the previous species of the genus the central tooth is longer\u2014. Corolla papilionoid, yellow, with standard silky-villous on the dorsal side; wings shorter, glabrous and keel almost as long as the standard. Androecium monadelphous, with 10 stamens. Pod 2.5-3.5 \u00d7 0.35-0.45 cm, linear-oblong, glabrous or hairy, with hairs and glandular-brownish tubercles, dehiscent. Seeds 2-6, ovoid, compressed, dark brown or black, smooth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12441","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n