Crotalaria chirindae Baker F.

Perennial, erect or ascending in other vegetation and up to 1·5 m. tall, or low and decumbent, much branched.. Stem with short appressed hairs.. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets narrowly oblong-lanceolate to elliptic lower down, often acuminate, up to 80–150 mm. long, 9–38 mm. wide, glabrous above, appressed puberulous beneath; petiole ± 18–40 mm. long.. Stipules subulate or filiform, up to 2–4 mm. long, caducous or rather persistent.. Racemes terminal and leaf-opposed, long-pedunculate, up to 14–23(–40) cm. long, with many flowers crowded at least towards the top; bracts subulate-caudate, expanded at the base, 3–8 mm. long; bracteoles inserted at the base of the calyx, linear-caudate, 3–9 mm. long.. Calyx becoming basally truncate and deflexed against the pedicel, 3·5–4 mm. long, appressed pubescent; lobes narrowly acuminate-triangular, ± as long as the tube.. Standard broadly elliptic, yellow, veined purple or reddish-brown and glabrous outside; wings markedly shorter than the keel; keel rounded about the middle, with a narrow incurved untwisted beak, 8–10 mm. long.. Pod shortly stipitate, cylindrical, ± 24–30 mm. long, 6–7 mm. across, densely pubescent, ± 20–26-seeded.. Mature seeds unknown.