Description ²

Shrub up to 3 m tall with long arching branches, sometimes scrambling into surrounding vegetation. Leaves pinnate with 4-5 pairs of obovate-elliptic leaflets, rounded at the apex, usually hairy; glands present on the rhachis between each pairs of leaflets. Flowers golden-yellow, in axillary racemes, up to c. 10 cm long, often crowded towards the ends of branches. Pods cylindrical and more or less inflated, straight or slightly curved, up to c. 20 cm long, brown.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Kenneth Bader, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Kenneth Bader
2. (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/30280520

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• iNat taxon page
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