twigs tomentose; leaves obovate, orbicular, or suboblong, cuneate at base, thick, concave, the lateral oblique, glabrous or minutely puberulous, acute or mucronulate; flowers capitate, the floral leaves very small, linear; calyx puberulous, its lobes lanceolate-subulate, scarcely equalling the tube; petals pubescent, vexillum broadly ovate, slightly longer than the carina; ovary villous, 4–5 ovuled; legume obliquely ovate. A robust, rigid, diffusely branched shrub, 1–2 feet high. Leaves 3–4 lines long, 1–2 1/2–3 wide, shining, pale green, crowded, the young ones microscopically downy, the older punctate. Heads of flowers very short, the floral leaves very small; the bracts setaceous. Calyx 2 lines long. Petals twice as long, pale yellow. Near A. orbiculata, but the flowers are smaller, the petals more minutely downy, the calyx lobes narrower, and the ovules fewer.