Crotalaria pallidicaulis Harms

Shrub, 1–3(–4) m. tall; bark streaky, peeling.. Branches usually rather densely covered with short slightly spreading or appressed white hairs, ultimately glabrescent.. Leaves alternate and well spaced or often crowded on short axillary shoots, 3–foliolate; leaflets oblanceolate or oblong-elliptic to elliptic, 15–38 mm. long, 4–12 mm. wide, glabrous or puberulous above, appressed puberulous beneath; petiole (15–)20–65 mm. long.. Stipules absent.. Racemes rather lax, up to 4–12 cm. long, up to ± 16—flowered; bracts subulate, 2–3·5 mm. long; bracteoles inserted on the pedicel, filiform, 0·5–1 mm. long.. Calyx 9–12 mm. long, basally narrowed into a prominent receptacle, appressed puberulous outside, minutely crisped puberulous along the lobe-margins inside; upper lobes triangular, ± as long as the tube.. Standard ovate-elliptic, yellow, marked red or purple and glabrous outside; wings three-quarters to four-fifths as long as the keel; keel rounded about the middle, with a rather short bluntly pointed untwisted beak, 20–23 mm. long.. Pod oblong-clavate, narrowed into an 8–12 mm. long stipe, 40–50 mm. long, 8–10 mm. across, appressed puberulous, 10–14—seeded.. Seeds oblong-reniform, ± 5 mm. long, granulate, ochre.