Erect, annual or short-lived perennial shrub to 1 m tall; stems flexuose, glabrous or with a few minute, loose, basifixed hairs. Leaves 5–15 cm long; leaflets mostly 15–19, obovate-oblong, lower lateral leaflets 5–25 mm long, 4–12 mm wide, terminal leaflet usually larger than upper laterals, apices emarginate, both surfaces glabrous; stipules broad-ovate, 4–15 mm long, 5–10 mm wide, leafy. Racemes mostly 15–20-flowered; flowers c. 10 mm long; calyx glabrous, teeth shorter than tube; petals yellow; standard 7–10 mm long, 7–12 mm wide, suborbicular, shortly clawed; keel 7–10 mm long, apex acute to obtuse, lipped or retracted; style tip straight, tufted. Pod crescent shaped to broadly ellipsoid, mostly 20–30 mm long, 10–15 mm wide, much inflated, glabrous; stipe 1–4 mm long; seeds to c. 14, cordate, to c. 2 mm long, brown. Flowers mainly Sep.–Dec.
LoM, MuM, RobP. Also SA, NSW. In Victoria, known only from the far north-west where rare. Grows in mallee scrub on sandy or loamy soil and usually found only after fire.
