Common name: Showy Rattlepod
Crotalaria spectabilis Roth APNI* 
Description: Erect annual to c. 2 m high; stems ± glabrous, sometimes glaucous.
Leaves simple, narrow-obovate to obovate, 5–10 cm long, 8–40 mm wide, ± glabrous, lower surface sometimes sparsely pubescent; petiole 3–6 mm long; stipules leafy to 9 mm long.
Racemes 13–40 cm long, many-flowered; pedicels 8–20 mm long; bracts leafy, 7–15 mm long. Calyx 8–15 mm long, glabrous. Corolla c. 20 mm long, clear yellow; wings shorter than keel; keel incurved at middle, beak 8–13 mm long, apex twisted.
Pod 40–65 mm long, glabrous; seeds 4.5 mm long, yellow ochre and black.
Flowering: mostly summer and autumn.
Distribution and occurrence: Naturalized occasionally in Bourke and Tweed Heads districts. Native of Asia.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *NFWP
Other Australian states: *Qld
Text by C. Gardner & G.J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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