Habit : A much branched bushy shrub with stems slightly yellowish-rusty coloured, with short appressed rusty coloured hairs.
Leaves :
Paripinnately compound, 3-4 on a rachis, arising from a common point, stipulate, stipules 2, linear, pointed, brown-purple coloured, rachis grooved on dorsal side.
Leaflets 6-10 pairs, opposite, arising from raised rounded collar, broadly oblong or obovate oblong, very obtuse but mucronulate, minutely hairy.
Flowers :
Flowers large, golden yellow, on 2-4 flowered peduncles which are shorter than the leaves, softly hairy.
Sepals 5, polysepalous.
Stamens 5, polyandrous.
Anthers stout, oblong, dehiscing by an apical pore with a brown line.
Ovary superior, long twisted when young.
Style short. Stigma oblong, purple coloured.
Fruit : Pods oblong-linear or narrower, membranaceous.