Bushy herb, 1–1.3 m tall; young stems tomentellous with white appressed hairs. Leaflets 3, elliptic to narrowly elliptic-obovate, 15–35 x 6–18 mm, glabrous except along midvein above, appressed puberulous beneath; petiole longer than the leaflets. Stipules absent. Racemes lax, many-flowered; buds soon deflexed; bracteoles inserted at base of calyx, lanceolate or ovate, 2–3 mm long. Calyx c. 7 mm long, thinly appressed puberulous; lobes slightly longer than tube. Standard yellow, puberulous along the midvein outside; keel shortly rounded, 16–17 mm long, with a practically straight untwisted beak. Pod c. 16 mm long, oblong, slightly curved, appressed pubescent outside, densely packed with long hairs inside, c. 12-seeded.
Range
N1 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
c. 1500 m altitude.
Distribution
SOMALIA Lort Phillips s.n.
Notes
Only known by a couple of collections from the “Golis” Range and the “Wagga” Mt, made at the end of the 19th century.
