Erect subshrub c. 60 cm tall, with several erect shoots from a stout woody rootstock, usually appearing after burning. Stems sticky, stout or slender, pubescent and with yellow to dark red glands. Leaves mostly 1-foliolate, less often 3-foliolate; leaflets 1.3–4.5 × 0.8–3.2 cm, elliptic, oblong-elliptic or almost round, rounded at both ends, shortly mucronulate at the apex, pubescent and covered with orange or red glands on both surfaces; venation at length reticulate beneath; petiole 3–20 mm long; petiolule not easily distinguishable; stipules deciduous, 6 × 2 mm, oblong, pubescent and glandular. Inflorescences numerous, axillary or apparently terminal at the apices of shoots where leaves have not yet developed; rhachis 2–3(7) cm long; peduncle 3–15(35) mm long; pedicels 2–3 mm long; bracts c. 3 × 1 mm, oblong, pubescent. Calyx pubescent and covered with red glands; tube 2.5–4 mm long; lobes 3–7 mm long, lanceolate, the lowest the longest, the upper pair joined only near the base. Standard yellow, veins deep purple outside, 10–17 × 8–12 mm, rounded or broadly obovate, glabrous; wings chrome-yellow; keel pale yellow. Pods yellow-brown blotched darker brown, 15–20 × 6–7 mm, oblong-elliptic, with long glandular-based hairs, gland dots and a few short hairs. Seeds dark purplish-brown, 4 × 3.5 × 2 mm, subglobose, with a small raised rim aril in the single seed examined.
