Crotalaria

Crotalaria anisophylla (Hiern) Welw. ex Baker f.

First published in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 42: 260 (1914)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Angola to Zimbabwe. It is an annual and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

Leguminosae, various authors. Flora Zambesiaca 3:7. 2003

Morphology General Habit
Erect annual, 15–50 cm tall, with long procumbent lower branches, pubescent with appressed slightly biramous hairs.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves shortly petiolate, 1-foliolate; leaflets mostly 9–14.5 × 0.5–2 cm, linear to linear-lanceolate, attenuate, acute, but lower ones up to 7 × 3.5 cm, often lanceolate to elliptic, shorter and rounded at the apex, thinly appressed pubescent beneath; stipules 3–10 mm long, linear or subulate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes very lax, rather few-flowered; bracts 2–4.5 mm long, linear to linear-lanceolate, bracteoles on the pedicel, filiform.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx (9)11–12 mm long, appressed puberulous; lobes narrowly triangular-lanceolate, 2–3 times as long as the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard subcircular, blue to violet, with a few hairs apically outside; wings oblong-obovate, exceeding the keel; keel, (8)9–11 mm long, strongly rounded, with a crest behind the small beak and an oblique spur from the leading edge.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod including the 0.5–1 cm long stipe 3–4.2 cm long, subcylindrical, slightly broadened distally, shortly appressed pubescent, with numerous seeds.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds 4–5 mm long, obliquely oblong-cordiform, reticulately rugulose, brownish.
[FZ]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian woodland, Zambezian grassland, Zambezian wooded 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]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
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  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/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