Ħatba s-Sewda ta' Malta

This kidney vetch is a shrub up to about 50 cm tall with twisted, woody branches whose tips become spiny. It bears yellow flowers from April to June.

The botanists Salvatore Brullo and Gianpetro Giusso del Galdo compared many specimens of the wider Anthyllis hermanniae group around the Mediterranean. They found that the Maltese plants differ enough from the rest to be their own subspecies, which was published in 2006. The same study divided the group into seven subspecies, most of them found in only one place.

At the last update of the local flora it was not legally protected and not in the Red Data Book.