Decumbent or ascending herb; stems 5–50 cm long, branched, slightly hairy to glabrous. Petioles mostly 2–5 cm long; leaflets obovate to obcordate, 4–20 mm long, 2–15 mm wide, upper surface glabrescent, lower surface usually hairy, margins denticulate, apices rounded or emarginate, mucronate; stipules triangular, hastate, 2–6 mm long, coarsely toothed. Inflorescences 2–8-flowered axillary clusters, shortly pedunculate; flowers on pedicels 0.5–2 mm long; calyx 3–5 mm long, conspicuously 5-veined, sparsely hairy, teeth narrow-triangular, longer or shorter than tube; corolla 4–6 mm long, pale yellow. Pod 9–18 mm long, c. 2 mm wide, curving upwards, laterally compressed, prominently veined, glabrous or sparsely hairy; seeds 3–7, oblique-rhomboid, c. 1 mm long, smooth, brown. Flowers mainly Sep.–Nov.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VRiv, MSB, RobP, MuF, NIS. All mainland states. Apparently confined to the drier north-west of the state where it grows along seasonal watercourses, floodplains and depressions.
