Annual herb, erect or decumbent, up to 30 cm tall, commonly branched from the base, stems appressed hairy. Leaf imparipinnately compound, c. 3-10 cm long, petiole and rachis sparsely pubescent, hairs white. Leaflets 9-15, c. 5-10(-15) mm long, linear to narrowly obovate, entire, retuse, glabrous above, sparsely appressed pubescent below; stipules c. 2-4 mm long, triangular-lanceolate. Inflorescence a 1-4-flowered spike, peduncle shorter than or equal to leaves. Bracts c.0.5-1 mm long, sparsely white-ciliate. Calyx c. 3-5 mm long, pubescent, hairs white, appressed, teeth c. 1 mm long. Corolla violet. Vexillum c. 6-9 mm long. Wing c. 6-7.5 mm long. Keel c. 5-7 mm long. Fruit c. 3.0-4.5 cm long, c. 3 mm broad, nearly straight, linear, minutely white adpressed hairy, beak curved at the end into a hook, bilocular.

Fl.Per.: April.

Holotype: Province Azerbaijan, Persia, Szovits (LE-not seen).

Distribution: Persia; Afghanistan; Russia: South Transcaucasia, Pamir Alai, Tien Shan, Mountain Turkmenia, Syr Darya foothills, Aralo Caspia and Kyzyl Kum (Gontscharov & Popov, l.c.); Pakistan, (Baluchistan, N.W.F. Province).