Astragalus fruticosus Forssk., it is a perennial herb, up to 60 cm tall, erect to ascending, stout, white-tomentose. Leaves 15-30 cm long, ascending, stipules 1 cm long, free almost to the base, triangular-lanceolate, acuminate, and leaflets usually 15-30 pairs. up to 15 x 10 mm, sub orbicular to broadly ovate, usually folded, notched, green above, canescent beneath, younger leaflets crowded. Flowers 20-25 mm long, short-pedicelled, yellow in axillary or sub sessile very short racemes or fascicles of 3-7-flowers, lax to congested, very variable. Calyx campanulate, villose, about half as long as corolla, teeth as long as tube, lanceolate. Pods 40-60 x 10 mm. terete, sub compressed, straight to sub arcuate, with strong, straight, spiny, 10 mm long beak, and woody-spongy, longitudinally nerved valves, tomentose hairy. Seeds 2 mm, reniform.
Flowering in: Jan-Mar.
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