Shrub or suffrutex up to 30-60(100) cm, spiny, hermaphrodite, rhizomatous and stoloniferous, with extensive subterranean rhizomes from which \u00b1 herbaceous stolons and stems arise, often rigid, erect or ascending, green-greyish. Branches glabrous or shortly pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, with stipules 1-2 mm, deciduous, sessile or with petiole 1-2 mm, and leaf blade 0.5-2.5 \u00d7 0.2-0.8 cm, entire, oblong-elliptic or obovate, obtuse, sometimes mucronate. Flowers in axillary groups of 1-3 on the young branches, shortly pedicellate. Calyx 3-4 mm, campanulate, with small, pubescent teeth. Corolla 10-12 mm, 3-4 times longer than the calyx, with the inside of the standard, the keel and wings red or an intense purple after anthesis. Androecium diadelphous. Ovary silky or pubescent, subsessile with many ovules, style filiform, glabrous, with small stigma. Pod 10-40 \u00d7 2-3 mm, cylindrical, usually curved or arched, smooth or somewhat rugose and glabrescent at maturity, lomentaceous, with irregular narrowing, indehiscent. Seeds 3-8, subspherical or reniform, smooth, brown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12447","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n