Crotalaria goodiaeformis Vatke

Bushy shrub or subshrub, sometimes scandent, up to 2·6(?–4·5) m. tall.. Branches slender, appressed or spreading pubescent, glabrescent; bark pale brown, conspicuously lenticellate.. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets broadly oblanceolate, elliptic or obovate, up to 15–55 mm. long, 5–30 mm. wide, sparsely appressed pilose on both surfaces; petiole up to 12–45 mm. long.. Stipules filiform, up to 2 mm. long, caducous.. Racemes lax, with few flowers on the very slender rhachis; bracts filiform, 1–3 mm. long, ± persistent; bracteoles inserted just below the calyx, linear, ascending and sometimes curved, up to 4(–6) mm. long.. Calyx 8–10 mm. long, sparsely appressed puberulous; lobes narrowly attenuate-triangular ± twice as long as the tube.. Standard suborbicular, yellow or orange, marked and veined purple at the base inside and sometimes outside, usually puberulous along the midvein outside; wings longer than the keel; keel strongly rounded about the middle, with a short slightly incurved untwisted beak, 10–12 mm. long, conspicuously lanate-pubescent towards the base of the upper margin.. Pod shortly stipitate, oblong-clavate, (20–)30–40 mm. long, 8–10 mm. across, thinly spreading pubescent, ± 14–16-seeded.. Seeds oblique-cordi-form, up to 4–5 mm. long, slightly rugulose, dark brown, sometimes mottled greenish-brown.