Crotalaria macrocalyx Benth.

A small shrub. It has deep roots and keeps growing from year to year. It produces branched stems each year. These can be 30-90 cm long.

Savannah on sandy terraces and plateaux; rocky outcrops, gravelly soils; fallow land, sandy roadsides, often ruderal; sometimes on seasonally flooded sandy hardpan soil.

The young leaves are cooked and eaten as a vegetable. They are used in stews. Leaves can be dried and stored.

Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.