Argyrolobium tomentosum (Andrews) Druce

tomentosum: tomentose, densely woolly

Erect or scrambling small shrub, up to 2 m tall. Stems with appressed or spreading hairs. Leaves 3-foliolate, with leaflets elliptic-lanceolate, sparsely woolly above, more densely so beneath. Inflorescences leaf-opposed, 8-32-flowered, sometimes fairly lax and elongated but often compact and short; peduncles 2-10 cm long. Flowers, yellow, turning orange-red with age; standard hairy on the outside. Pods c. 3-6 cm long, oblong, slightly curved.

Locally frequent

north-eastern DRC, Uganda, southern Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa as far as the Eastern Cape.