Crotalaria gamwelliae Baker F.

Erect annual, up to 7 dm. tall, often with a number of ascending branches from the base and ultimately numerous short almost leafless flowering branches near the top.. Stem slender, shortly appressed pubescent.. Leaves mostly 3-foliolate, the upper ones 1-foliolate; leaflets oblanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, the lower ones sometimes obovate, up to 18–30 mm. long and 3–8 mm. wide, obtuse to rounded or truncate at the apex, glabrous or with a few small scattered hairs above, finely appressed pubescent beneath; petiole ± 4–20 mm. long.. Stipules absent.. Racemes mostly pedunculate, lax to rather dense, many-flowered, and usually with other short racemes or clusters of flowers in the axils below; bracts linear, 2–3 mm. long, shorter than the pedicel; bracteoles inserted on the upper part of the pedicel, filiform, 0·5–1·5 mm. long.. Calyx 4–5 mm. long, with the tube protracted on the lower side, rather shortly appressed pubescent; upper lobes subulate-triangular, ± 2–3 times as long as the tube.. Standard elliptic-obovate, yellow, often veined brown outside, pubescent medially and apically outside; wings much shorter than the keel; keel bent at right-angles in the lower quarter, with a long very narrow twisted beak, slightly incurved at the tip, 8–11 mm. long.. Pod subsessile, subglobose-ovoid, slightly pointed, up to 4–5 mm. long, appressed pubescent, 2-seeded.. Seeds suborbicular-cordiform, ± 2 mm. across, with a prominent aril, smooth, brown.