Perennial herbaceous plant, sometimes somewhat woody at the base, up to 0.8(2.5) m in height, hermaphrodite, with stems predominantely herbaceous, upright and\/or sometimes somewhat climbing, almost all parts highly villous. Stems and old branches brown-greenish, glabrescent, with scattered hairs, erect, which fall gradually. Branchlets green, densely villous, hirsute. Leaves alternate, petiolate, trifoliolate, with foliaceous stipules; leaflets subequal, obovate, with rounded and acuminate tip, attenuated at the base, subsessile, green and glabrescent or villous on both sides. Inflorescence capituliform, pedunculate, terminal, very dense, with 20-40 pedicellate flowers, with villous pedicels. Calyx campanulate, with 5 subequal teeth, linear-lanceolate, red, hirsute-villous. Corolla 5-8 mm, papilionoid, glabrescent, with white or pinkinsh wings and standard, and purplish keel. Androecium diadelphous, with the free part of the filaments somewhat shorter than the tube. Ovary subsessile, cylindrical, glabrous. Pod 1-2 cm, oblong-linear, cylindrical, red, glabrous, dehiscent, with 2-6 seeds. Seeds 1-1.3(1.5) \u00d7 0.7-1.2 mm, ovoid or globose, brown, with dark macules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12570","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n