Annual glabrescent, annual herb up to 30 cm tall. Leaves petiolate, petioles almost as long as a leaflet; leaflets oblong to oblong-ovate, up to 15 x 8 mm, denticulate, glabrous green above, glabrescent below, obtuse to truncate, mucronate. Racemes pedunculate, head-like, many-flowered; peduncules about as long as or longer than subtending leaves. Flowers bright yellow, 3-5 mm long. Pods linear, 8-10 x 1-2 mm, curved upwards, transversely and reticulately veined, lower pedicels deflexed.