Crotalaria shirensis (Baker F.) Milne-redh.

Small erect annual, exceptionally up to 4 dm. tall, sometimes much branched.. Stem very slender, with small scattered appressed or spreading hairs.. Leaves subsessile, simple; blades mostly narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic (sometimes linear outside the Flora area), up to 35–60 mm. long and 2–5 mm. wide, but the basal ones often broader, elliptic to ovate, glabrous above, sparsely puberulous beneath; petiole up to 1 mm. long.. Stipules filiform, up to 1–3 mm. long.. Racemes slenderly pedunculate, lax, up to 3–6(–9) cm. long, mostly 1–3-flowered; bracts filiform, up to 1 mm. long; bracteoles inserted at the top of the pedicel, similar to the bract.. Calyx 2·5–4 mm. long, thinly puberulous; lobes acuminately triangular, a little longer than the tube.. Standard elliptic, pale yellow, with a darker red-fringed mark at the base inside, reddish veined and glabrous outside; wings shorter than the keel; keel bent at right-angles in the lower third, with a long narrow distinctly recurved untwisted beak, 5–6 mm. long.. Pod sessile, narrowly cylindrical, up to 10–13 mm. long, 2–3 mm. across, shortly and rather sparsely pubescent, ± 15–20-seeded.. Seeds cordiform, ± 1 mm. long, smooth, reddish-brown.. Fig. 130/1–11.