Crotalaria bequaertii Baker f.

First published in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 42: 299 (1914)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tanzania to S. Tropical Africa. 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
Similar to C. alexandri, but with generally shorter hairs (0.1–0.3 mm long), the leaflets variable but often more wedge-shaped, broadest near the apex, subacute to rounded or often truncate, glabrous or shortly pubescent above, bracts much shorter than the pedicel, 0.5–1.5 mm long, and the pod 2-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds sometimes (Mbala region) with an aril.
[FZ]

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

Morphology General Habit
Small erect annual, up to 1·5–4·5 dm. tall, developing numerous ascending or spreading slender branches mostly from near the base.
Morphology Stem
Stem slender, densely subappressed pubescent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets wedge-shaped to oblanceolate-oblong, up to 12–16 mm. long, 1–3·5 mm. wide, subacute to rounded or truncate at the apex, minutely apiculate, glabrous to sparsely pilose above, densely appressed pubescent or pilose beneath; petiole up to 6 mm. long.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules absent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes short, few-flowered, with most of the flowers clustered in many of the axils below; bracts linear, ± 0·5–1·5 mm. long, shorter than the pedicel; bracteoles not apparent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 2·5–3·5 mm. long, with the tube protracted on the lower side, appressed pubescent; upper lobes narrowly attenuate-triangular, up to twice as long as the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard elliptic-oblanceolate, yellow with reddish marks at the base inside, red veined and pubescent outside; wings shorter than the keel; keel bent at right-angles in the lower third, with a narrow twisted beak, 4–6(–7) mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod sessile, ovoid-globose, 3–3·5 mm. long, pubescent, 2-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds suborbicular-cordiform, up to 1·5 mm. across, without a conspicuous aril, smooth, brown.
Habitat
Brachystegia woodland on sandy soils, also persisting on roadsides and cultivated ground; 450–1550 m.
Distribution
T4 T5 T7 T8
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian woodland, Zambezian 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

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