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Perennial or rarely annual diffusely procumbent herb; stems pubescent with spreading or appressed hairs or glabrescent, multistriate. Leaves unequal; the larger up to 10 cm. long with up to 9 pairs of leaflets, the smaller up to 6 cm. long with up to 5 pairs of leaflets; leaflets 4–15 (18) × 2–7 (9) mm., obliquely oblong to obovate-oblong, rarely elliptic, usually obtuse and mucronulate but also sometimes ± acute, ± densely silky-pubescent beneath, pubescent or glabrous on the upper surface. Stipules 5–8 mm. long, subulate, at length deciduous. Peduncle much longer than the subtending leaf. Sepals 5–12 mm. long, lanceolate, acute, densely pubescent outside, caducous. Petals yellow, up to 2 × 1–2 cm., broadly cuneate. Filaments 3–5 (7) mm. long; anthers (1) 1·2–3 mm. long, oblong or ovate-oblong. Style usually elongate, cylindrical, up to 4 mm. long with a rather short hemispheric slightly asymmetric stigma (rarely stigma pyramidal, but then on top of the elongated style). Ovary and fruit as in T. zeyheri.