Erect shrub up to 2 m. tall, with spreading branches; branchlets 1-(2) mm. diam., somewhat compressed, glab. or nearly so, finely grooved. Lvs 1-3-foliolate; lflts narrow-cuneate, shallowly notched, lobes rounded. Infl. of (1)-3-5-fld racemes on ± pilose peduncles c. 4 mm. long. Fls up to 5 × 3 mm. on ± pilose pedicels c. 1 mm. long. Calyx ± 2 × 2 mm., ± pilose towards base; teeth minute, bluntly triangular. Standard purple-flushed and -veined; keel whitish, auricles bluntly pointed; wings white, auricles pointed. Ovary glab. Pods obliquely broad-ovate to suborbicular; (5)-6 × (3)-4 mm., subcompressed, dark brown; beak subfalcate, obliquely placed c. 1·5 mm. long. Seeds us. 2, ± 2 mm. diam., pale to deep yellowish green, us. heavily black-mottled. (Plants otherwise similar sts have seeds with reddish ground-colour).