Crotalaria graminicola Taub. ex Baker F.

Perennial with a number of erect or decumbent stems from a woody rootstock and under favourable conditions also from woody rhizomes, 5–35cm. tall.. Stems slightly ribbed, shortly appressed or rarely spreading pubescent, sometimes glabrescent at the base.. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets oblan-ceolate to obovate, up to 12–17 mm. long and 4–10 mm. wide, but often much smaller, rounded or emarginate at the apex, glabrous or sparsely puberulous above, appressed puberulous or pubescent beneath; petiole sometimes conspicuously grooved or narrowly winged, up to 4–10 mm. long.. Stipules absent.. Racemes shortly pedunculate, up to 10 cm. long, with ± 15–24 fairly closely or laxly arranged flowers; bracts subulate, ± 1–3 mm. long; bracteoles inserted on the pedicel, small.. Calyx 3–4 mm. long, with the tube protracted on the lower side, appressed puberulous; upper lobes attenuate-triangular, usually longer than the tube.. Standard suborbicular, yellow, sometimes veined reddish-brown or purplish outside, puberulous outside at least on the midvein, usually on most of the veins; wings shorter than the keel; keel bent at right-angles in the lower third, with a long straight or slightly incurved twisted beak, 6–8 mm. long.. Pod practically sessile, subglobose-ovoid, a little pointed, slightly compressed laterally, appressed pubescent, 4–5·5 mm. long, 1–4-seeded.. Seeds ovoid-cordiform, up to 2 mm. long, with a small aril, smooth, maroon-brown.. Fig. 134.