Erect, sprawling or prostrate shrublet to 50cm. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets fascicled, subterete, awl-shaped, succulent, spine-tipped, glabrous; flowers 1-3 at branch tips, pale or bright yellow, sometimes partly reddish, wings glabrous, keel with apical part almost square, glabrous, with ridges, lobes awl-shaped, succulent, spine-tipped, glabrous.

Greek: batos, a bramble or prickly bush; -odes, resemblance: referring to the plants prickly habit.