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Leaves alternate, trifoliolate, petiolate, with stipules partially fused to the petiole, leaflets (7)10-35 \u00d7 4-25 mm, somewhat thick, elliptic to suborbicular, serrated, lateral leaflets sessile and central leaflet petiolulate, green, glabrous or with glands, highly viscous, like the branchlets and inflorescences. Inflorescences spiciform, terminal, long and dense, with numerous subsessile flowers arranged solitary in the axils of each bract \u2014without leaflets, ovate, persistent\u2014. Calyx 8-12 mm, villous, with glanduliferous and eglandular hair, greenish, deeply split into 5 linear-lanceolate teeth, slightly longer than the tube. Corolla 11-18 mm, papilionoid, yellow, with a glabrous standard and often with purple veins, wings and keel roughly of the same length but without coloured veins, keel falcate. Androecium monadelphous, with 10 stamens. Ovary hairy and capitated stigma. Pod 6-7.5 mm, \u00b1 ovoid, hairy, included in the calyx or slightly exserted, with 1-2 seeds. 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