Evergreen shrub or small tree, hermaphrodite, up to 3(5) m in height, very ramose, branching upright or, in larger and older specimens, extended-upright. Trunk and older branches with greyish-brown bark, that peels off into longitudinal strips, often filiform. Young branches (of a few years) angular, brown-greenish, younger ones green, with short and applied hairs. Leaves 1.5-3 cm long, alternate, fleshy, rigid, covered in short, white and applied hairs (silky), imparipinnate, with rachis proportionately much wider than the leaflets, compressed, with 3-11 leaflets, 0.3-0.5 mm long, alternate or subopposite, elliptical, obtuse or subacute, briefly attenuated at the base, sessile, fleshy, green on both sides. Inflorescence in racemes, axillary, sparse, with 2-6 flowers, shortly pedicellate, sometimes flowers solitary. Calyx campanulate, with 5 short subequal teeth, shorter than the tube, brown, with applied hairs. Corolla papilionoid, purple, with standard base pinkish; wings very short, pink or purple; keel purple, with the lower part white-pink. Androecium diadelphous. Ovary semicylindrical, stipitate. Pod reddish-purple, oblong, highly compressed, papery, divided into 2-3 ellipsoid-orbicular segments, each with a seed inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12603","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n