Type:― ALBANIA. Berati district: “in lapidosis montis Tomor Abbas Ali supra ‘stani’ Kurlaj”, 12 August 1892, A. Baldacci 307 (holotype G!). Fig. 1.
Small, acaulescent, perennial herb 4‒16 cm tall with branched woody caudex densely covered with remains of old stipules; vegetative shoots present at anthesis. Stipules membranous, ovate, 5‒6 × 1.5‒3 mm, acute, shortly connate and adnate to petiole, ciliate. Leaves imparipinnate, not terminating in a spine, 5‒30 mm long. Leaflets 4‒11-paired, elliptic to obovate, 2‒6 × 1.5‒3 mm, entire, densely silvery-sericeous with adpressed, bifurcate hairs. Peduncle 2.5‒12 cm, longer than leaves at anthesis, white- and black-adpressed hairy. Pedicels short (less than 0.3 mm) or absent. Flowers erect, in dense, oblong-ovoid, 2.5‒4 cm long spike. Bracts white-membranous, reddish at apex, 5‒7 × 1 mm, triangular-lanceolate, white-villous or with a few black intermixed hairs. Calyx tubular-campanulate, 6.5‒9.5 mm long, oblique at mouth, not inflated in fruit; tube 3‒4 mm, pale green, with bifurcate and simple white hairs intermixed with fewer black hairs; teeth reddish, ± equal, linear-subulate, 4‒5.5 mm long, with ascending-spreading simple white hairs and predominantly black bifurcate hairs towards the apex. Standard erect, glabrous, 15‒20 × 3‒4 mm; lamina oblong, undulate, whitish at base, purplish-pink veined greenish-white in upper two-thirds; wings 8‒12 mm, keel beaked, 7‒8 mm. Stamens 10, filaments 5‒7.5 mm long. Legume included in calyx, ellipsoid-ovoid, 4‒5.5 mm long at maturity, shortly acuminate, with persistent glabrous style, ventrally obtusely-carinate, dorsally grooved, bilocular; valves densely covered with asymmetrical bifurcate, sub-adpressed to ascending-spreading, long white hairs. Seed solitary in each locule, reniform-oblong, 2‒3 mm (usually one seed smaller or abortive), dark brown, glabrous.