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Shrubs to 1.2 m tall. Leaves pinnate, ca. 10-foliolate; peti­ole and rachis 4-7 cm × ca. 2 mm, persistent on long branch­lets, caducous on short branchlets; leaflet blades obovate-lan­ceolate, 7-15 × 5-7 mm, abaxially pubescent, apex acuminate. Flowers solitary. Calyx tube tubular-campanulate, 1-1.5 cm, base subgibbous. Corolla bright yellow but standard yellow to orangish yellow; standard suborbicular, ca. 2.5 cm; wings bright yellow, limb ca. 12 × 4-6 mm, auricle curved and slightly longer than claw; keel with a broad auricle. Ovary densely vil­lous. Legume linear, ca. 3 cm, densely villous. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Aug-Sep. 2n = 16.

Woodlands, scrub; 2900-3100 m. Xizang [Nepal].