Shrub, up to 2 m in height, hermaphrodite, erect, with base of the main stems clearly woody. Stems and younger branches hollow, arundinaceous, with several false longitudinal ribs, glabrous, green. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, with flattened petiole, with 3-7 leaflets, 5-28 \u00d7 1-5 mm, subequal, obovate or oblong, entire, with rounded apex, mucronate or not, subsessile, glabrous and glaucescent on both sides. Inflorescence umbelliform, axillary, on a peduncle longer than the subtending leaf, with 4-13 flowers that are borne on the same point. Calyx 2.2-3.3 mm, campanulate, with upper lip longer, ending in 2 small teeth and lower lip with 3 teeth or lobes broadly oval-triangular, glabrous, greenish. Corolla 7-15 mm, papilionoid, yellow, with wings longer than the standard and the keel, with a claw or basal tail of the petals almost entirely included in the calyx. Androecium subdiadelphous. Ovary cylindrical, dilated at the apex, glabrous, with style curved at right angle at the base and discoid stigma. Pod lomentaceous, cylindrical, straight and pendant, with 3-11 segments with clearly marked separation between them and easily disarticulating; within each segment there is usually a longly ovoid seed, brown, straight and with a smooth surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12600","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n