Crotalaria anningensis X.Y.Zhu & Y.F.Du

Herbs, perennial, ca. 9 cm tall, with appressed ferruginous trichomes. Stipules absent. Leaves simple; petiole ca. 1 mm; leaf blade elliptic, 5-7 × 2-3 mm, abaxially with appressed tri­chomes, adaxially green, with dense white papillae, base cune­ate, apex acute. Racemes terminal, 3-6 cm, 6-15-flowered; bracts linear, ca. 2 mm. Pedicel 2-4 mm; bracteoles similar to bracts, ca. 2 mm. Calyx 2-lipped, ca. 7 mm, deeply (4 or)5-lobed, with appressed trichomes; abaxial 3 lobes linear 5-6 mm; adaxial 2 lobes ovate-lanceolate. Corolla yellow, exserted from calyx; standard suborbicular, ca. 6 × 5 mm, margins proxi­mally with glandular trichomes, basal claw ca. 1 mm, with 2 pulvinate callosities, apex rounded; wings oblong, 4-6 × 2-3 mm; keel ± as long as standard, incurved above middle, beak not twisted. Ovary sessile, ?glabrous. Legume not seen. Fl. Mar.