Botanical name: Crotalaria albida    Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Crotalaria deflexa, Crotalaria montana Roxb. (illeg.)

Hill Rattlewort is an erect to ascending herb, 10-80 cm tall. branches radiating from a perennial stout root stock. Leaves are up to 1.5 x 0.5 cm, inverted-lanceshaped, blunt, hairy below. Flowers are borne in racemes up to 6 cm long, at branch-ends; bracts and bracteoles minute. Flowers are 1 cm long, yellow; calyx 9 mm long; sepals unequal; standard 8 mm across, round, hairy on back; wings 8 x 3 mm, rugose; keel hairless. Pods are 9 x 3 mm, obovate, hairless; seeds few. Hill Rattlewort is found in Indo-Malesia. It is found in the Himalayas, at altitudes of 450-2200 m. Flowering: December-January.

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