Crotalaria adolfi Harms

First published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 54: 381 (1917)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is SW. Tanzania. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the desert or dry shrubland biome.

Descriptions

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

Morphology General Habit
Spreading bushy shrub up to 2 m. tall.
Morphology Branches
Branches shortly pubescent with fine subappressed hairs, somewhat glabrescent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets elliptic, up to 7–9 cm. long, 3·6–4 cm. wide, thinly pubescent with fine appressed hairs above, more densely so beneath; petiole up to 4·5–6 cm. long.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules filiform, up to 3 mm. long, early caducous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes lax, up to 10 cm. long, ± 5–8-flowered; bracts filiform, up to 4 mm. long; bracteoles inserted on the pedicel, similar.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 15–17 mm. long, shortly appressed pubescent; lobes narrowly attenuate triangular, more than twice as long as the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard elliptic-orbicular, yellow, pubescent outside; wings as long as or shorter than the keel; keel rounded, with a short slightly incurved untwisted beak, 20–21 mm. long, conspicuously lanate-pilose along the upper margin proximal to the beak.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod stipitate, oblong-clavate, 40–50 mm. long, appressed pubescent, many-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds broadly oblique-cordiform, 3·5–4·5 mm. across, somewhat rugulose, pale brown.
Habitat
Margins and streamsides of rain-forest; 900–2000 m.
Distribution
T7 known only from the mountains N. of Lake Nyasa
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Afromontane forest
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Shrub
[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: threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/179537/1581891

Conservation
EN - endangered
[IUCN]

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