Crotalaria bemba R.Wilczek

First published in Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 23: 139 (1953)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is SE. DR Congo to N. Zambia. 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 herb, (10)20–60 cm tall, with 0–numerous ascending branches, appressed pubescent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves mostly 3-foliolate, uppermost often 1-foliolate; leaflets 8–30 × 2–8 mm, linear-oblanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, appressed pubescent beneath; petiole 0–2 mm; stipules 0.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes (3)5–12 cm long, laxly 4–30-flowered, developing other racemes and single flowers in the axils below; bracts 1.5–5 mm long, linear-lanceolate, shorter than the pedicel; bracteoles minute or lacking.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx (4)6–7 mm long, densely appressed pubescent; upper lobes broadly triangular-lanceolate, acuminate, ± twice as long as the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard oblate, yellow, lined brown, tomentellous outside; wings longer than the keel; keel 7–9 mm long, subangular with a twisted beak incurved at the tip.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod sessile, 7–9 × 5–7 mm, ovoid-globose, appressed pubescent, 6–12-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds 1.5–2.5 mm long, oblique-cordiform, smooth.
[FZ]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/19892916/20045342

Conservation
LC - least concern
[IUCN]

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]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian woodland
Morphology General Habit
Annual, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

Sources

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    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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  • International Legume Database and Information Service

    • International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
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  • 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