Crotalaria anthyllopsis Welw. ex Baker

Annual, with a short erect stem, up to 6 dm. tall, but usually much less, and long decumbent lower branches.. Branches sparsely covered with long bristly spreading hairs.. Leaves 1-foliolate; leaflets ovate to oblong-lanceolate, with the upper ones longer and proportionally narrower, up to 30–65(–95) mm. long, 12–20(–25) mm. wide, sparsely pilose on both surfaces; petiole 4–10(–15) mm. long.. Stipules linear or filiform, ± 6–10(–12) mm. long.. Racemes subsessile, dense, up to 4·5 cm. long, many-flowered; bracts linear or filiform, up to 7–14(–17) mm. long; bracteoles inserted at the base of the calyx, similar to the bract.. Calyx becoming basally truncate and deflexed against the pedicel, 5–6 mm. long, sparsely hirsute; lobes attenuate triangular, much longer than the tube.. Standard suborbicular, pale yellow, with purplish veins and glabrous outside; wings longer than the keel; keel strongly rounded about the middle, with a short straight or slightly incurved untwisted beak, 5–6(–8) mm. long.. Pod sessile, subglobose, slightly compressed laterally, 6–7 mm. long, densely hirsute, (1–)3–6-seeded.. Seeds oblique-cordiform, 2–3 mm. long, wrinkled, reddish-brown.

It is a tropical plant. It can grow in arid places. It grows in open woodland and grassland. It grows 700-1,800 m above sea level.

The leaves are cooked and eaten. They are cooked with potash and peanuts added to improve the flavour.