Crotalaria lasiocarpa Polhill

Annual, with a short erect leading shoot up to 2·5 dm. tall and long slender pilose radiating branches, prostrate or somewhat ascending in other vegetation.. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets elliptic to obovate, up to 25–48 mm. long and 11–23 mm. wide, or those of the leading shoot sometimes rather narrower and proportionally longer, glabrous above, appressed pilose beneath; petiole up to 8–24 mm. long.. Stipules filiform or caudate-subulate, up to 3–5 mm. long.. Racemes long-pedunculate, up to 3–5·5 cm. long, with 2–5 flowers towards the top of the very slender axis; bracts filiform or linear, 1–3 mm. long; bracteoles inserted at the base of the calyx, filiform, up to 1·5 mm. long.. Calyx a little shorter than the keel, 3–4·5 mm. long, pilose; lobes narrow, 2–3 times as long as the tube.. Standard suborbicular, pale yellow, veined maroon or mauve, glabrous outside; wings ± as long as the keel; keel bent at right-angles in the lower half, with a relatively long narrow slightly recurved untwisted beak, 5–6 mm. long.. Pod sessile, ellipsoid-cylindrical, (10–)12–13 mm. long, 6–7 mm. across, rarely subglobose and ± 7 mm. in diameter, spreading tomentose, ± (10–)14–16-seeded.. Seeds oblique-cordiform, 2–2·5 mm. long, smooth, dull orange.