Botanical name: Crotalaria beddomeana    Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Crotalaria lunata, Crotalaria lanata

Crescent Rattlepod is an erect shrub, 2-5 m tall, stems densely velvet-hairy, often becoming hairless. Leaves are simple, ovate or elliptic, 6-13 x 3.3-8 cm wide, upper surface hairless, lower surface densely greyish velvet-hairy; leaf-stalk 1-2 cm long; stipules leafy about 1 cm long. Flowers are borne in racemes about 15 cm long; flower-stalks about 1.5 cm long. Flowers are 2.5-3 cm long, yellow with red-brown striations, wings are longer than keel; keel incurved at middle, beak about 1.5 cm long, twisted at tip. Sepal-cup is about 1.5 cm long, velvet-hairy. Flowers are 2.5-3 cm long, yellow with red-brown striations, wings are longer than keel; keel incurved at middle, beak about 1.5 cm long, twisted at tip. Pods are 5-7 cm long, hairless, slightly curved like a moon crescent, seeds about 5 mm long, glossy. Crescent Rattlepod is found in Southern Western Ghats.

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