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Crotalaria medicaginea Lam.
Common Name : Trefoil rattlepod.
Family : Fabaceae
A herb or shrub, prostrate to erect, 1 m tall.
Slender, branched, appressed silky pubescent;
stipules filiform, 2-3 mm .
3-foliate; leaflets oblanceolate, obovate-oblong,
or ovate-oblong, abaxially densely silky
pubescent, adaxially glabrescent, base cuneate,
apex obtuse, truncate or retuse.
Racemes terminal or leaf opposed, many
flowered; flowers yellow.
Pods globose, 3-5 mm in diameter, slightly
exserted beyond the calyx, pubescent, 2-seeded,
apex shortly beakled.
Subcylinderic, truncate at apex, reddish brown.
Weed ID Manual 107