Crotalaria medicaginea Lam. var. medicaginea

Scientific Description

Prostrate,spreading or scrambling, herb. Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, continuous with stem, 7-15 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, palmately arranged; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 1.5-3.5 mm long, with glands or without glands, ribbed or ribless. Pedicel 2-4 mm long. Bracteoles present and persistent, 1 mm long, hairy or glabrous, striate or not striate. Calyx 2-5 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs; pustules or glands absent. Corolla uniformly coloured, yellow; claws present; standard 4-8 mm long, wings 3-8 mm long, not auriculate, keel 5-11 mm long, beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; filaments united in an open sheath. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in February, March, April, May, June, July, August and September. Occurs in the Northern Botanical Province, in the Northern Kimberley, Victoria Bonaparte and Central Kimberley IBRA regions.