Crotalaria adamsonii Baker F.

Perennial, with a small woody rootstock and several laxly branched ascending stems, up to 5 dm. tall.. Stems 4-angled, sparsely puberulous with small adpressed hairs, sometimes purplish tinged.. Leaves subsessile, simple; blade lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic, up to 35–78 mm. long, 7–20 (–26) mm. wide, acute, glabrous above, sparsely appressed puberulous beneath; petiole up to l(–2) mm. long.. Stipules filiform, 1·5–3 mm. long.. Racemes terminal or leaf-opposed, lax, ± 7–13 cm. long, with up to 8 flowers; bracts filiform, 2–3 mm. long; bracteoles inserted on the receptacle, subulate to linear-lanceolate, 2–4 mm. long.. Calyx 8–11(–14) mm. long, shortly appressed pubescent; lobes narrow, 2–3 times as long as the tube.. Standard suborbicular, pale yellow, veined reddish-purple and apically pubescent outside; wings ± as long as the keel, greenish yellow; keel strongly rounded about the middle, with a short incurved sometimes slightly circumflexed beak, 8–12(–14) mm. long.. Pod subsessile, fusiform-cylindrical, ± 34–40 mm. long, 5–7 mm. across, appressed pubescent, many-seeded.. Mature seeds unknown.