Crotalaria chrysochlora Baker F. ex Harms

Perennial with a thick woody rootstock and a number of ascending or decumbent stems, sometimes up to 3 dm. tall, often less.. Stems pubescent with short appressed or spreading hairs.. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets elliptic-obovate to obovate, up to 15–40 mm. long and 8–18 mm. wide, glabrous above, appressed puberulous beneath; petiole up to 9–25 mm. long.. Stipules minute or absent.. Racemes pedunculate, up to 4–10 cm. long, with up to 20 flowers rather closely arranged towards the top; bracts filiform, 1·5–3 mm. long; bracteoles inserted at the base of the calyx, filiform, less than 1 mm. long.. Calyx becoming basally truncate and deflexed against the pedicel, 3·5–4·5 mm. long, appressed or rarely spreading puberulous; lobes triangular, slightly acuminate, ± as long as the tube.. Standard suborbicular, yellow, veined or sometimes tinged reddish-brown or purple, glabrous outside; wings longer than the keel; keel ± semiorbicular, with a short blunt untwisted beak, 5–6(–7) mm. long.. Pod nearly sessile, subcylindrical, up to 15–18 mm. long, 4–6 mm. across, appressed puberulous, ± 10–16-seeded.. Seeds oblique-cordiform, 2·5–3 mm. long, smooth, dark brown.. Fig. 127/1–8.