Erect caulescent perennial with simple-sericeous stems. Leaves 15-20 cm; leaflets 8-15 mm, narrowly elliptic, acute or obtuse, glabrous above, simple-sericeous below, 13-17-paired; stipules 15-25 mm, narrowly triangular, united. Flowers in 3-6-flowered racemes. Bracts 6-12 mm, linear. Bracteoles c. 3 mm. Calyx 15-20 mm, tubular, simple-white-pilose; teeth 5-7 mm. Corolla yellow; standard 28-35 mm. Legumes 25-40 x 12-20 mm, ovoid, compressed, rugose, white-pubescent; beak 5-10 mm. Fl. 4-6. Fields, chalky hills, 400-1100 m.

East Aegean Is.