Crotalaria axillaris Aiton

Shrub or woody herb, well branched at least above, up to 1–4 m. tall.. Branches appressed puberulous to densely spreading yellowish pubescent or tomentellous.. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets elliptic, more rarely lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, up to 4·5–10 cm. long, 2·2–5·5 cm. wide, glabrous above, appressed puberulous to pubescent beneath, with slightly spreading sometimes crisped hairs most dense along the nerves; petiole ± 3–10·5 cm. long.. Stipules filiform, up to 2 mm. long.. Inflorescences axillary, very shortly racemose or subfasciculate, ± 2–6(–12)-flowered; bracts filiform, up to 1·5 mm. long; bracteoles minute.. Calyx ± 10–13(–15) mm. long, slightly protracted on the lower side, thinly puberulous to conspicuously pubescent; upper lobes narrow, much longer than the tube.. Standard suborbicular-obovate, clear yellow, tinged reddish with age, puberulous along the midvein outside; wings ± as long as the keel; keel rounded below the middle, with a well-developed twisted beak, ± 15–18 mm. long.. Pod oblong-clavate, narrowed rather gradually into a 6–10(–15) mm. long stipe, variable in size, ± 45–60 mm. long, 8–14 mm. across, puberulous or pubescent, developing conspicuous veins, ± 16–20-seeded.. Seeds subreniform, 4–5 mm. long, smooth, orange-brown or buff.