Crotalaria verrucosa L.

Herb or suffrutescent herb to 2 m tall, stems angled, strigulose. Leaves uni-foliolate, broadly angular ovate or rhombic, the apex rounded, the base cuneate to attenuate, 3.4-4.5 cm long, 2.2-3.0 cm broad; entire, above glabrous to sparse-ly strigulose, beneath strigulose, the veins 4-6 on each side of the midvein; petiole 2-3 mm long; stipules crescent shaped, encircling the nodes, to 1.0 cm long. Inflorescences terminal or sub-terminal racemes bearing 8-13 flowers, the bracts narrowly triangular, 2.0-2.5 mm long, persistent, the pedicels 3-5 mm long; brac-teoles narrowly triangular, to 1.1 mm long, strigulose, located at mid-pedicel. Flowers blue or white tinged with violet, 11-16 mm long; calyx 10-13 mm long, the tube campanulate, the lobes about twice as long as the tube, strigulose; corolla blue or white tinged with violet, 13-15 mm long, the standard 11-16 mm long, 12-17 mm broad, retuse, the wings 11-14 mm long, the claws 2-3 mm long, oblong lanceolate, oblique, the keel 13-16 mm long, the twisted beak prolonged; stamens dimorphic, the long anthers 2.8-3.2 mm long, the short anthers 0.6-1.0 mm long; style with a pubescent stigma, curved geniculate, 8.5-10.0 mm long. Legume inflated, 2.4-3.0 cm long, strigulose; seeds ca. 11, tan to brown, oblique cordiform, to 4.5 mm long.

Fallow fields and on marshy ground, along rivers and roads; at elevations up to 1,200 metres. Grassland and sparse forests. Field edges and open places in dry evergreen and deciduous forests with bamboo, at elevations to 1,300 metres

Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.