Crotalaria orientalis Burtt Davy ex I.Verd.

Erect virgate herb or subshrub, 0.4-1 m tall; branches glaucous, ribbed, subglabrous to sparsely strigulose. Leaves all 1-foliolate or a few middle ones 3-foliolate; leaflets linear to linear-lanceolate or linear-oblanceolate, 7-50 x 0.8-9 mm, flat or with inrolled margins, with basal lateral nerves ascending well into upper part (visible only in broader flat leaflets); petioles mostly 6-18 mm long. Stipules absent. Racemes laxly 6-12-flowered; bracts linear to linear lanceolate, 1-4 mm long; bracteoles variously inserted on the 6-10 mm long pedicel, small. Calyx 5-7 mm long, glabrous to sparsely puberulous; lobes subulate to narrowly triangular-acuminate, ± as long as the tube, ultimately reflexed. Standard whitish inside, white or yellow and lined reddish brown outside, glabrous to pubescent; wings yellow, shorter than the keel; keel angled in the lower part with a long straight beak, darker at the tip, (1.3-)1.4-1.7 cm long. Legume subsessile, oblong-ellipsoid to shortly cylindrical, 10-16 x 6-7 mm, 4-8-seeded. Seeds oblique-cordiform, ±3 mm long, papillate, brown.