Crotalaria lachnocarpoides Engl.

Perennial woody herb or shrub, up to 5–20(–27) dm. tall, usually much branched and bushy above.. Stem terete, silky tomentose.. Leaves shortly petiolate, 3-foliolate; leaflets oblanceolate-oblong or narrowly oblong-elliptic, more rarely elliptic-obovate, up to 35–70 mm. long, 12–25 mm. wide, densely grey silky pilose on both surfaces; petiole up to 13 mm. long, usually much less.. Stipules filiform, 5–8 mm. long, persistent.. Racemes lax or dense, up to 10 cm. long in fruit, mostly 6–12-flowered; bracts linear to attenuate-lanceolate, up to 8–11 mm. long, persistent; bracteoles inserted on the pedicel, filiform, up to 6–9 mm. long.. Calyx 10–15 mm. long, tomentose with appressed or slightly spreading hairs; lobes usually narrowly attenuate-triangular, 2–3 times as long as the tube.. Standard suborbicular, yellow, usually reddish-brown tinged outside, fading orange-red, pubescent at least medially and apically outside; wings longer than the keel; keel semiorbicular, with a short slightly incurved or straight blunt untwisted beak, 11–15(–18) mm. long, with a band of hairs towards the lower margin.. Pod subsessile, broadly and shortly cylindrical, up to 25–30 mm. long, 12–13 mm. across, densely long spreading tomentose, (12–)20–26-seeded.. Seeds oblong-reniform, 3·5–4 mm. long, minutely granulate, usually shiny, pale yellow or ochre.