Prostrate or decumbent shrub, to c. 20 cm tall; stems slender, glabrous or sparsely hairy when young, densely tuberculate. Leaves trifoliolate, shortly petiolate; leaflets linear, 3–10 mm long, to c. 1 mm wide, subsessile, glabrous, margins recurved, apex acuminate; stipules minute, subulate. Flowers 7–12 mm long, solitary or few in racemes; pedicel c. 5 mm long, usually shorter than calyx. Calyx 5–6 mm long, blackish, lobes valvate, triangular-acuminate, nearly reaching base of calyx, not ridged at edges, inside margins ciliolate; petals pale lemon-yellow or yellow-green with darker markings; keel minutely ciliate or glabrous; ovules 12–20. Pod ovoid, 8–11 mm long, c. 6 mm wide, turgid, glabrous, sessile; seeds numerous, ellipsoid, c. 1.2 mm long. Flowers Aug.–Sep.
EGL, EGU. Also NSW. Known from a few sites in far East Gippsland, mostly along the upper Genoa River and its tributaries where growing in open-forest with a shrubby understorey.
This recently described species has affinities with G. uncinatum Cunn. ex Benth. from northern New South Wales and south-east Queensland, but that species has reddish petals and appears to lack stipules (Crisp 1995).
