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Shrubs to 30 cm tall. Bark grayish brown to bright brown. Leaves 4-foliolate, pinnate on long branchlets, digitate and ses­sile on short branchlets; petiole 0.8-1.5 cm on long branchlets, persistent; leaflet blades oblanceolate to obovate, 3-12 × 2-3 mm, both surfaces appressed pubescent, base cuneate, apex rounded to truncate. Flowers solitary. Pedicel 2-4 mm, articu­late basally. Calyx tube tubular-campanulate, 6-7 mm. Corolla yellow, 1.6-1.8 cm; standard suborbicular to broadly ovate; wings with claw ca. 1/3 as long as limb, auricle ± as long as claw; keel claw ca. 1/2 as long as limb, auricle small. Ovary glabrous. Legume cylindric, 2-3.5 cm, glabrous. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Jun-Jul.

● Valleys, riverbanks, slopes; 1200-2800 m. Xinjiang.