Crotalaria pseudotenuirama Torre

Erect annual, up to 6–9 dm. tall, often with numerous slender ascending branches from the base upwards.. Stem slender, subappressed pubescent.. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets linear-oblanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, up to 12–20 mm. long and 2–5 mm. wide, mostly rounded or truncate at the apex, glabrous above, appressed pubescent beneath; petiole up to 4–9 mm. long.. Stipules absent.. Racemes usually shortly pedunculate, up to 7–13 cm. long, with mostly numerous fairly closely arranged flowers; bracts linear, up to 2 mm. long, much shorter than the pedicel; bracteoles inconspicuous.. Calyx 2·5–3·5 mm. long, with the tube protracted on the lower side, brownish tomentose; upper lobes triangular, ± as long as the tube.. Standard obovate, pale yellow, veined brown, golden-brown tomentose outside; wings ± as long as the keel; keel bent at right-angles in the lower third, with a narrow slightly incurved twisted beak, 4–6 mm. long.. Pod sessile, subglobose-ovoid, ± 5–6 mm. long, brown appressed pubescent, 1–2-seeded.. Seeds ovate-cordiform in outline, up to 2 mm. long, with a prominent aril, smooth, brown, sometimes purplish tinged.