Tephrosia nana Kotschy ex Schweinf.

Annual or short-lived perennial, 20–150 cm. tall; stems rusty hirsute, the longer hairs often up to 2 mm. long.. Leaf-rhachis up to 13 cm. long, including a petiole of 3–50 mm., prolonged up to 6 mm. beyond lateral leaflets; stipules triangular-attenuate, rather falcate, ± 1 cm. long; leaflets 7–19, oblong-elliptic, gradually increasing in size from leaf-base, up to 55 by 13 mm., rounded or retuse at tip, narrowed at base, softly pubescent beneath and usually (in Flora area) less densely so above.. Flowers pink or purple in rather dense pedunculate pseudoracemes, occasionally a few also in upper leaf-axils; bracts very narrowly triangular; pedicels ± 5 mm. long.. Calyx densely rusty and white pubescent; tube 3 mm.; upper teeth broad and short (1.5 mm.), united except for the connivent tips, lateral teeth 2 mm., lowest 2.5 mm. long.. Standard golden-brown silky outside, purple within, 12–18 mm. long, 10–15 mm. wide; keel glabrous.. Upper filament lightly attached, widened and slightly callous 1 mm. above base; filament-sheath 14 mm., free parts 3–4 mm., anthers 0.7 mm. long.. Style pubescent on both sides, linear, gradually curved in the lower half, 6 mm. long.. Pod ascending, brown, curved slightly downwards as is also the beak, 5–6 cm. long, ± 6 mm. wide, stiffly pubescent with hairs about 0.7 mm. long.. Seeds 12–20, brown, smooth, ellipsoid, transverse, ± 3 × 1.5 × 1 mm.; hilum at one side of the base; aril white, annular.