Crotalaria adenocarpoides Taub.

First published in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas, C: 206 (1895)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Uganda to DR Congo. It is an annual or subshrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/111319131/111319137

Conservation
VU - vulnerable
[IUCN]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Afromontane(upland) bushland and thicket., Afromontane grassland
Morphology General Habit
Annual, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Leguminosae, J. B. Gillett, R. M. Polhill & B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1971

Morphology General Habit
Erect much-branched subshrub or woody herb, up to 1–1·8 m. tall.
Morphology Branches
Branches densely pilose with fine brownish spreading hairs.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves alternate with others often crowded on very abbreviated axillary shoots and appearing fasciculate, 3-foliolate; leaflets oblanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, small, up to 12 mm. long and 4 mm, wide, rounded to truncate at the apex, sparsely pilose above, rather densely appressed pilose beneath.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules absent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes subsessile, dense, up to 5–8 cm. long, many-flowered, sometimes with other flowers clustered in the axils below; bracts linear, up to 3 mm. long, ± as long as the pedicel; bracteoles inserted on the pedicel, inconspicuous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 4–5 mm. long, with the tube protracted on the lower side, densely pilose; upper lobes narrowly attenuate-triangular, ± twice as long as the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard elliptic, shorter than the mature keel, yellow, veined purplish-red, puberulous apically outside; wings much shorter than the keel; keel bent at right-angles in the lower third, with a long narrow twisted beak, 9–11 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod subsessile, ellipsoid-globose to very shortly cylindrical, up to 9 mm. long, 5 mm. across, densely spreading pubescent, 8–10(–13)-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds orbicular-reniform, ±1–5 mm. across, smooth, brown.
Habitat
Upland grassland; 1500–2350 m.
Distribution
U2
[FTEA]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • International Legume Database and Information Service

    • International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • World Checklist of Vascular plants (WCVP)

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0