Crotalaria reptans Taub.

Annual or short-lived perennial, with a short erect leading shoot and many long trailing much-divided pilose branches from the base, up to 3–7·5 dm. long.. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets narrowly to broadly elliptic or obovate, up to 20–43 mm. long, 14–30 mm. wide, with those of the leading shoot up to 53 mm. long and proportionally narrower, glabrous or sparsely pilose above, appressed pilose beneath; petiole up to 8–32 mm. long.. Stipules linear-subulate, 1–3 mm. long.. Racemes subumbelliform, usually longer than the opposed leaf, (2·5–)4–11 cm. long, usually ± 2–4-flowered (up to 8-flowered in southern Africa); bracts linear or filiform, 1–1·5 mm. long; bracteoles inserted at the top of the pedicel, filiform, up to 1 mm. long.. Calyx shorter than the corolla, (4·5–)6–8 mm. long, pubescent or shortly pilose; lobes subulate, 1·7–3 times as long as the tube.. Standard suborbicularor obovate, yellow, veined brown and glabrous outside; wings shorter than the keel; keel bent at right-angles in the lower third, with a long straight tapered untwisted beak, 7–12 mm. long.. Pod subsessile, discoidal to shortly ellipsoid or even subglobose, but usually distinctly laterally compressed at least when young, 7–12 mm. long, 3·5–6 mm. across, 6–9 mm. in dorsiventral diameter, thick-walled and tardily dehiscent, usually rugose with the vein-network impressed to slightly raised, shortly and conspicuously pubescent, 1–3-seeded.. Seeds suborbicular, up to 4 mm. across, slightly rugulose, brown.