Erect or ascending perennial herb to 20 cm tall; stems with sparse, minute, antrorsely divergent basifixed or subbasifixed hairs. Leaves mostly 3–6 cm long; leaflets 5–13, narrow linear-lanceolate, 10–20 mm long, mostly c. 1 mm wide, sometimes wider near base of plant, terminal leaflet much longer than upper laterals, apices long-tapering, usually acute, sometimes narrowly obtuse to emarginate, upper surface glabrous, lower surface sparsely pubescent; stipules mostly 2–10 mm long. Racemes mostly 3–15-flowered; flowers 4–7 mm long, often hanging vertically from peduncle; calyx pubescent, teeth usually much shorter than tube; petals purple; standard 6–8 mm long, 7–9 mm wide, suborbicular, clawed; keel c. 7 mm long, apex acute, lipped; style tip curved, or truncate and geniculate, tufted. Pod globose to obovoid-obloid, 5–15 mm long, 4–7 mm wide, inflated, almost glabrous; stipe minute; seeds to c. 10, cordate to reniform, to c. 2.5 mm long, brown. Flowers Sep.–Nov.
VRiv, GipP, CVU, NIS, HNF. Also NSW, ACT. An endangered species, previously recorded in Victoria from low hill country in north and north-east but known only from 1 recent (1995) collection near Glenrowan.
