Crotalaria cleomifolia Welw. ex Baker

Shrubby much-branched perennial, up to 1–4 m. tall, woody at the base.. Branches often slightly ribbed, with variable indumentum, appressed puberulous to spreading yellowish tomentose.. Leaves 3–5-foliolate; leaflets elliptic, sometimes narrowly so, up to 5–10·5(–12) cm. long, 2–5·5 cm. wide, acute to bluntly pointed, often acuminate, glabrous to pubescent above, puberulous to pilose beneath, discolorous, dark green above; petiole 2–5·2 cm. long.. Stipules subulate to linear-caudate, ± 1–5 mm. long.. Racemes rather shortly pedunculate, up to 11–28(–40) cm. long, with many rather closely arranged flowers; bracts subulate or linear-caudate, 2–8(–10) mm. long; bracteoles inserted at the base of the calyx, linear-caudate, 2–8(–10) mm. long.. Calyx becoming basally truncate and deflexed against the pedicel, 6–7 mm. long, appressed puberulous to spreading tomentose; lobes acuminate, subequal to or a little longer than the tube.. Standard elliptic, bright yellow, usually veined reddish-brown, glabrous outside; wings much shorter than the keel; keel rather strongly rounded about the middle, with a narrow slightly incurved untwisted beak, (10–)14–17 mm. long.. Pod shortly stipitate, cylindrical, sometimes curved shortly upwards at the tip, 38–50 (–60) mm. long, 7–9 mm. across, sparsely puberulous to densely spreading pubescent, ± 30–40-seeded.. Seeds oblique-cordiform, ± 3 mm. long, smooth, brown.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in grassy or wooded savannah in damp sites near streams in West Africa. It grows between 1,150-2,650 m above sea level. It can grow in arid places.

The leaves are cooked and eaten as a green vegetable.

Plants can be grown from seeds. They can also be grown from semi-ripe cuttings.