Lotus conimbricensis Brot., it is an annual herb, glabrous to sparsely and ciliately hairy, up to-20 (-30) cm long, diffuse or ascending. Upper leaflets obovate to rhombic, up to 12 x7 mm, apiculate; the lower pair ovate and usually larger. Peduncles shorter than subtending leaves, terminally 1 (-2) flowered; bracts usually 3, equaling or exceeding the calyx, leaflet-like. Flowers 8-10 mm long, usually white, rarely yellowish. Calyx campanulate with teeth almost as long as tube, lanceolate-subulate. Corolla slightly exceeding the calyx; standard ovate with pink veins; keel curved with a long, straight, purple beak. Pods 40-70 x 1-2 mm, terete, conspicuously arched or hook-shaped above or almost semicircular, many-seeded. Seeds very small, globular, brownish-yellow, smooth.
Flowering in: Apr-Jun.
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