Perennial shrub with long branches or 30-45 cm tall. Stem velutinous, greyish silky or tomentose. Leaf uni to trifoliolate palmately compound, petiole 0-10 mm, tomentose, petiolule c. 0-1 mm, tomentose, lamina 3-15 mm long, 3.0-9 mm broad, obovate, cuneate to truncate, glabrate, tomentose to velutinous above, tomentose to velutinous below. Inflorescence a 6 or fewer flowered pedunculate axillary raceme or reduced to 1 or 2 flowers in the axil of the leaf. Peduncle c. 9 mm, velutinous; bract c. 1.5 mm, tomentose. Pedicel c. 1.5 mm long, tomentose. Calyx 4-4.5 mm long, tomentose, teeth 2-3 mm long. Corolla yellow. Vexillum 5-6 mm long. Fruit 1-2-seeded lomentum, l seeded part 6-7 mm wide, densely echinulate, fruit appendages profusely hairy.

Fl.Per.: June.

Holotype: Aegypt, Forskal (C); Isotype (BM).

Distribution: Pakistan, Arabia, Egypt, Somaliland, Kenya; Sudan; Eritrea.