Woody high-climbing twiner, stems yellowish-grey hairy. Trifoliolate leaves, terminal mucronate glabrous leaflets to 150mm x 100mm, strigulose above & beneath but with pilose venation beneath. Axillary or terminal erect pseudo-racemes to 150mm long with 12mm bracts, silky calyx 10mm, red or violet corolla to 15mm long, standard wings & keel to 12mm long, centre of standard white inside. Coriaceous pods, densely yellowish-grey pubescent when young, legume 150mm x 60mm.