Crotalaria aegyptiaca Benth.

A twiggy, branched, leafless-looking, appressed-canescent, perennial shrublet up to c. 40 (-60) cm tall. Branches erect, stiff, + angular, often becoming spinescent at raceme tips. Leaves simple, early deciduous, sessile, small, 3-5(-8) mm long. Flowers yellow, c. 10 mm long, remote in long, terminal racemes. Calyx teeth 2-3 times as long as the tube. Standard larger than the wings; keel smaller than wings, twisted. Pods non- stipitate, ovoid, turgid, up to c. 10 mm long, glabrous, 1-3-seeded.