Tephrosia gracilenta H.M.L.Forbes

Stems slender, ascending, thinly appressedly pilose becoming glabrous when older. Leaves unifoliolate, linear-lanceolate, appressedly pilose below, glabrous above, mucro small, recurved, 2.3-3.9 cm long, 2.5-5 mm broad; petioles 2.5-6 mm long, with two small bracts at apex. Stipules setaceous, 2-3.5 mm long. Flowers yellow, solitary in axils of leaves, 1-1.5 cm long; pedicels 5.5 mm long. Calyx-tube 5 mm in diam., 2.5 mm long, lobes ciliate, shorter than the tube. Vexillum silky without and long ciliate round margin at base of lobe. Ovary densely silky, 5 mm long. Style glabrous, about 1 mm long. Legume not seen.