Crotalaria tabularis Baker F.

Shrub or robust somewhat woody herb, 0·7–3 m. tall.. Branches obscurely angled or ribbed, with a short appressed and evanescent indumentum.. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets narrowly to broadly elliptic or obovate-elliptic, up to 4·5–8·5 cm. long, 1·8–3·3 cm. wide, bluntly pointed to rounded or slightly retuse, minutely mucronate, cuneate, glabrous above, appressed puberulous beneath; petiole slender, 2·5–8 cm. long.. Stipules filiform, 1–4 mm. long.. Racemes up to 8–26 cm. long, rather laxly few-many-flowered; bracts linear, ± 3–9 mm. long, caducous; bracteoles inserted near the top of the pedicel or at the base of the calyx, filiform, up to 3–6 mm. long.. Calyx 8–11 mm. long, appressed puberulous; upper lobes narrowly triangular, slightly acuminate, shorter or longer than the tube, with a short white woolly indumentum along the edges inside.. Standard suborbicular-obovate, bright yellow, glabrous outside; wings shorter to longer than the keel; keel rounded, with a fairly short twisted beak, (13–)15–18(–20) mm. long.. Pod shortly stipitate, oblong-clavate, ± 45–65 mm. long, 10–13 mm. across, appressed puberulous, somewhat glabrescent, developing a prominent vein network, ± 16–30-seeded.. Seeds oblique-cordiform, ± 4 mm. long, smooth, dull ochre.