Crotalaria schliebenii Polhill

Erect annual or short-lived perennial, up to 6–10 dm. tall, developing many ascending flowering branches from near the top and sometimes a few long ones from near the base.. Stem silvery subappressed pilose.. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets linear-oblanceolate to oblanceolate-oblong, up to 8–20 mm. long, 1–3 mm. wide, acute to rounded at the apex, pilose on both surfaces; petiole up to 4–7 mm. long.. Stipules absent.. Racemes sessile, dense, up to 5–14 cm. long, many-flowered, sometimes with other flowers in the axils below; bracts linear, 2–3·5 mm. long, longer than the pedicel; bracteoles inconspicuous.. Calyx 3·5–4 mm. long, with the tube protracted on the lower side, silvery tomentose; upper lobes narrowly attenuate-triangular, up to twice as long as the tube.. Standard obovate-orbicular, yellow, veined brown and silvery tomentellous outside; wings nearly as long as the keel; keel bent at right-angles in the lower third, with a narrow twisted slightly incurved beak, 4·5–5·5 mm. long.. Pod sessile, subglobose-ovoid, 4–5 mm. long, 3–3·5 mm. across, appressed pubescent, 2-seeded.. Seeds ovate-cordiform in outline, up to 2–2·5 mm. long, with a prominent aril, smooth, brown.