Shrub or occasionally a tree, 2–4 m tall. Branchlets sometimes several per node, mostly relatively short, tapered but scarcely spine-tipped. Leaves 2–3.5 cm long; leaflets 13–17(–25), oblong, up to 4–11 x 1.5–5 mm, pubescent. Inflorescences on cushion-shaped branchlets with tufts of leaves, 1.5–5 cm long. Calyx 4–4.5 mm long, pubescent. Corolla 7–8 mm long, white; standard hairy inside at base of blade. Stamens 9. Pod elliptic-oblong, 2–3 x 0.8–1.3 cm, papery, glabrous, narrowly winged along upper margin, inconspicuously veined, 1-seeded.
Range
S1, 3
Altitude range
80–560 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Beckett 1600; Beckett & White 1543; O’Brien 166.