Crotalaria gazensis Baker F.

Shrubby, up to 1-2 m tall, or a slender-stemmed straggling or trailing herb; branches variously pubescent. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets narrowly elliptic-oblong fc elliptic or oblanceolate to obovate, pointed or round and apiculate, sometimes with the margins slightly inrolled, mostly 1.2-4 x 0.3-1.8 cm, glabrous above, subglabrous to pubescent beneath; petioles 0.5-16 mm long. Stipules subulate or triangular-lanceolate, 1-
 long, recurved. Racemes on main and usually numerous, relatively short lateral branches (often bearing smaller leaves), few-flowered, or the flowers solitary; bracts linear to linear-lanceolate, up to 2.5 mm long; bracteoles inserted on the pedicel, small and filiform. Calyx 7-9(-11) mm long, glabrous to pubescent; lobes narrowly attenuate-triangular, ± twice as long as the tube. Standard subcircular, yellow, sometimes with darker lines or tinged reddish, glabrous outside except sometimes along the midvein; wings longer than the keel; keel rather strongly rounded and crested behind the short beak, 7-10 mm long. Legume shortly stipitate, subcylindrical, 2-3 cm long, pubescent, ±8-12-seeded. Seeds oblique-cordiform, ±3.5 mm long, smooth, ochre.