Tephrosia curvata De Wild.

Stems erect, branched, up to 1 m. tall, sparsely strigulose with yellowish hairs.. Leaf-rhachis up to 7 cm. long, including a petiole of 4–12 mm., prolonged 0–5 mm. beyond the lateral leaflets; stipules subulate, 2–3 mm. long; petiolules densely golden strigulose, 2 mm. long; leaflets 9–15, linear-oblong, up to 32 mm. long and 4 mm. wide, narrowed at the base, rounded and apiculate at the tip, glabrous above, sparsely strigulose beneath, minutely pellucid-punctate, with 5–6 principal nerves on each side.. Pseudoracemes terminal and axillary, occasionally branched, up to 20 cm. long, including a peduncle of 2–8 cm.; bracts narrowly triangular, up to 1 mm. long; bracteoles absent; pedicels densely and minutely brown strigulose, 2–4 mm. long.. Calyx densely brown strigulose; tube 3 mm. long; upper teeth acuminate, 0.5 mm. long; lateral teeth broadly triangular, 1 mm. long; lowest tooth ovate, acute, 1.4 mm. long.. Corolla white or pink within; standard densely brown strigulose outside, 11 mm. long including a 2 mm. claw, 12 mm. wide; wings and keel glabrous, their claws 4 mm., blades 8–9 mm. long.. Upper filament attached to the others, sharply bent, callous and pubescent 1–2 mm. above the base; filament-sheath 7 mm. long, also callous and pubescent on the upper side 1–2 mm. above the base; free parts of filaments 2–3 mm., anthers 0.6 mm. long.. Ovary densely and minutely strigulose, 7 mm. long, upcurved at the tip, usually 2-ovulate; style linear, glabrous except for a fringe of long hairs at the incurved tip, 0.7 mm. wide, 4 mm. long, erect in the flower, later outstretched along the axis of the ovary.. Pod (immature) fiat, oblanceolate, ± 2 cm. long, minutely strigulose, 1-or rarely 2-seeded.