Crotalaria parvula Welw. ex Baker

Annual with a slender erect stem, up to 4·5 dm. tall, developing numerous slender ascending or spreading branches from the base, often also shortflowering branchlets at the top.. Stem shortly and usually rather densely appressed pubescent.. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets oblanceolate to obcunei-form, up to 7–12 mm. long and 1·5–4 mm. wide, mostly rounded to truncate or retuse at the apex, glabrous above, shortly and finely appressed pubescent beneath; petiole up to 4–5 mm. long.. Stipules absent.. Racemes or heads sessile, dense, up to 1–4(–6) cm. long, many-flowered, sometimes with a few other flowers in the axils below; bracts linear, up to 1–1·5 mm. long; brac-teoles inserted on the pedicel, very small.. Calyx 2–3 mm. long, with the tube slightly protracted on the lower side, appressed pubescent; upper lobes narrowly attenuate-triangular, longer than the tube.. Standard oblong-obovate, pale yellow with reddish marks at the base inside and reddish veined outside, densely appressed puberulous outside; wings shorter than the keel; keel bent at right-angles in the lower third, with a narrow twisted beak, 3–4 mm. long.. Pod sessile, ovoid-globose, 2·5–3·5 mm. long, shortly pubescent, 2-seeded.. Seeds ovate-cordiform in outline, 1–1·5 mm. long, with a prominent aril, smooth, dull brown.