Herbs or weak subshrubs, erect or ± trailing.Stems covered with long white hairs.Leaves 1-foliolate or pinnately 3-foliolate; stipules and usually stipels present.Inflorescences axillary or terminal, racemose or condensed and paniculate; bracts mostly persistent.Calyx 5-lobed, the upper pair ± joined.Corolla small, scarcely exceeding the calyx.Standard obovate-oblong, the lamina slightly produced on either side of the claw but not truly auriculate, hairy.Vexillary filament free from others, somewhat enlarged and membranous; anthers uniform.Ovary 2-ovuled, velvety; style short, subulate, bent, thickened below, glabrous at the apex; stigma capitate, glabrous.Pod oblong-ovoid, compressed, densely villous.Seeds oblong; hilum small and central; funicle dilated at the apex.