Crotalaria bernieri Baill.

Erect laxly branched annual, up to 3–7 dm. tall.. Stem thinly appressed puberulous, glabrescent.. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets linear-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, up to 40–65 mm. long, 4–7 mm. wide, bluntly pointed or rounded and apiculate, cuneate, glabrous above, appressed puberulous beneath; petiole 15–30 mm. long.. Stipules absent.. Racemes long-pedunculate, up to 8–15 cm. long, with generally numerous flowers towards the top; bracts subulate, triangular-caudate or filiform, ± 1 mm. long; bracteoles inserted at the base of the calyx, minute.. Calyx becoming basally truncate and deflexed against the pedicel, 1·5–2·5 mm. long, appressed puberulous; lobes triangular-acuminate, much shorter than the tube.. Standard suborbicular, pale yellow, veined reddish-brown or purple, glabrous outside; wings longer than the keel; keel rounded about the middle, with a very short slightly incurved blunt untwisted beak, 4–4·5 mm. long.. Pod sessile, ellipsoid-cylindrical, 20–23 mm. long, 6–8 mm. across, puberulous, ± 30–40-seeded.. Seeds oblong-reniform, 2–2·5 mm. long, smooth, mauve, pale brown or orange-red.