Crotalaria laburnoides Klotzsch

Erect annual, up to 7 dm. tall, much branched particularly towards the base.. Stem subappressed pubescent or less commonly subglabrous.. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets elliptic-lanceolate to elliptic or obovate, up to 20–58 mm. long, 10–26 mm. wide, glabrous above, shortly appressed pubescent or rarely glabrous beneath; petiole ± 15–32 mm. long.. Stipules subulate-caudate or linear, up to 2–4 mm. long.. Racemes up to 6–18 cm. long, with few to many laxly or rather closely arranged flowers; bracts linear-lanceolate, ± 2–3 mm. long; bracteoles inserted at the base of the calyx, filiform, up to 2 mm. long, deciduous.. Calyx 6–7 mm. long, with the tube protracted on the lower side, shortly appressed pubescent; upper lobes in bud triangular-lanceolate, rather abruptly contracted to an excentric apiculate apex, usually puberulous along the margins inside, becoming attenuate and glabrescent inside in the mature flowers.. Standard suborbicular, yellow, finely veined with red, turning orange, puberulous outside; wings obovate-oblong, ± as long as the keel; keel bent at right-angles in the lower half, with a narrow twisted beak, 8–11 mm. long, lanate-pilose along the upper margin.. Pod subsessile, broadly oblong-ellipsoid to oblong-obovoid, 14–23 mm. long, 8–14 mm. across, puberulous or glabrous outside, often with small scattered hairs inside, ± 16–28-seeded.. Seeds obUque-cordiform, ± 2·5 mm. long, smooth, shiny, light tan.