Crotalaria vandenbrandii R.Wilczek

Erect annual, up to 5 dm. tall, ultimately with a number of ascending or rather spreading branches, particularly from near the base.. Stem densely pilose with long very fine mostly spreading slightly crimped silvery or tawny hairs.. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets oblong-oblanceolate to oblanceolate-elliptic, up to 15–20 mm. long and 3–6 mm. wide, acute, thinly long-pilose on both surfaces; petiole ± 3–6 mm. long.. Stipules absent.. Racemes sessile, dense, up to 15 cm. long, many-flowered, with other flowers clustered in many of the axils below; bracts linear-lanceolate, attenuate at either end, 4–6(–8) mm. long, ± as long as the flowers and fruits; bracteoles obscure or absent.. Calyx 4–5 mm. long, with the tube protracted on the lower side, densely long pilose; upper lobes very narrowly attenuate-triangular, 2–3 times as long as the tube.. Standard elliptic, pale yellow, uniformly pilose outside; wings scarcely shorter than the keel; keel bent at right-angles in the lower third, with a narrow practically straight twisted beak, up to 6–7 mm. long.. Pod sessile, subglobose, 4–6 mm. long, pilose, 2-seeded.. Seeds oblique-cordiform, ± 2 mm. long, with a small white aril, smooth, brown.