Shrub up to 3(4) m in height, unarmed, hermaphrodite, deciduous, broom-like in appearance, with stems and branches highly branched from the base. Stems and old branches with greyish bark, somewhat fissured. Young branchlets arundinaceous, with numerous ribs barely prominent, greenish, sericeous at first and then glabrous. Leaves unifoliolate, alternate or \u00b1 opposite, with petioles and stipules, promptly deciduous, sericeous-silvery when young and glabrous or almost glabrous later, with leaf-blade 1.5-3 \u00d7 0.3-0.8 mm, linear or lanceolate, entire, acute, attenuated at the base, on a very short petiole. Inflorescence racemose, very lax, terminal, with 1-10 pedicellate flowers, with pedicel 2-4 mm, glabrous, each flower with 2 promptly caducous bracteoles. Calyx 8-10 mm, briefly bilabiate \u2014unilabiate in appearance\u2014, greenish, glabrous, persistent when fruiting, with the upper lip very reduced and the lower lip like a spathe with 5 small distal teeth. Corolla 20-30 mm, papilionoid, yellow, marcescent, with an ovate standard, almost entirely glabrous, wings shorter and keel longer or the same length as the standard, cuspidate-recurved upwards. Androecium monadelphous, with 10 stamens. Ovary villous, and stigma linear-elliptic, introrse. Pod 4-12 \u00d7 0.5-0.8 cm, erect, linear, compressed, green and sericeous at first, then glabrous and dark brown, with 10-18 seeds. Seeds 3-4.5 mm, ovoid, compressed, smooth, brown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12444","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n