Chamaecrista comosa E.Mey.

Perennial herb with erect, simple or subsimple stems up to 55 cm tall, ascending from a horizontally spreading, sympodial, ± woody but slender, perennial rhizomatous root-stock. Stems ± ridged, glabrous, glabrate or sparsely to densely velutinous or villous, hairs usually straight, patent, occasionally curved or curled. Leaves linear to oblong-linear, tapering slightly distally, 30-150 mm long, 10-35 mm wide; stipules straight, ovate-lanceolate to ovate, prominently nerved, base oblique, apex acute to acuminate; petiolar gland sessile, elliptic, occasionally ovate-elliptic, cushionlike with a darker central depression, 1.2-3 mm long, 0.4-1.4 mm wide, sunken in, lying flush with, or slightly projecting from the channel on the adaxial petiolar surface, often separating widely the margins of this channel so that the abaxial petiolar surface is ± flat below the gland; rhachis channelled adaxially, not crested, margins of the channel ciliate; leaflets in 11-35 pairs, asymmetrically oblong to oblong-elliptic, narrowing slightly towards apex, 5-18 mm long, 1-7 mm wide, base oblique, apex almost rounded and shortly mucronate to apiculate, surfaces glabrous, occasionally glabrescent, margin ± ciliate, midrib excentric (towards anticous margin), lateral nerves several towards both margins, ± prominent beneath. Inflorescences supra-axillary, (1-)2-3(-5)-flowered, bracts resembling stipules; pedicels at flowering 10-12 mm long, at fruiting 12-25 mm long, glabrous, glabrescent, villous or velutinous. Petals obovate, 7.5-15 mm long, not much exceeding sepals, bright yellow. Stamens 10. Ovaries sparsely to densely velutinous, hairs curved, white. Pods 40-65 mm long, 4-8 mm wide, valves glabrescent. Seeds ± rhombic, 2-4 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, testa brown with darker brown dots arranged in lines.