Crotalaria baumii Harms

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

Morphology General Habit

Prostrate annual; stems numerous, radiating, slender, 10–40 cm long, well branched, appressed puberulous to finely ± spreading pubescent, glabrescent.

Morphology Leaves

Leaves 3-foliolate, uppermost reduced, sometimes 1-foliolate; leaflets 5–13 × 3–11 mm, obovate to obovate-circular, rarely oblanceolate, rounded or emarginate at the apex, punctate above, appressed puberulous to finely pubescent beneath, rarely also above; petiole 1–5 mm long; stipules 0.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences

Racemes 1–3 cm long, subumbelliform, sometimes with 1–few flowers below the main head, 6–many-flowered; bracts 1.5–3.5 mm long, linear to linear-spathulate; pedicel 2–3 mm long, sometimes with setaceous bracteoles.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Calyx 2.5–4 mm long, densely pubescent; upper lobes triangular-acuminate, 1.2–2 times as long as the tube.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla

Standard obovate, yellow, ± densely pubescent on the upper half outside; wings a little shorter than the keel; keel 5–6 mm long, angular, with a narrow twisted beak.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Pod sessile, 3–4 × 2.5–3 mm, ovoid-globose, appressed pubescent, 2-seeded.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds

Seeds 1.5–2 mm long, broadly cordiform, smooth.

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