Crotalaria cornetii Taub. & Dewèvre

First published in Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 33(2): 99 (1894 publ. 1895)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. DR Congo to Zambia. It is a subshrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

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

Morphology General Habit
Suffrutex with woody rootstock and numerous spreading or ascending subangular stems up to 75 cm tall, glabrous overall except for minute puberulence on the youngest parts.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves estipulate, subsessile, simple; blade 2.5–5.5 × 1.2–3.5 cm, ovate-elliptic to elliptic or elliptic-oblong, bluntly pointed to rounded at the apex, shortly cordate at the base, chartaceous, ± glaucous, prominently venose on both surfaces.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes terminal and sometimes also axillary with the few flowers rather crowded towards the top; bracts 3–4(8) mm long, linear to linear-lanceolate; bracteoles on the pedicel, filiform.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 1.2–1.6(1.7) cm long, drying blackish; upper and lateral lobes on either side coherent, narrowly attenuate-triangular, more than twice as long as the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard subcircular, pink to mauve or purplish with darker lines; wings oblong-obovate, exceeding the keel; keel 1.4–1.6 cm long, strongly rounded about the middle, with a fairly short somewhat projecting pointed beak.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod subsessile, 3–3.5 cm long, oblong-clavate to subcylindrical, with c. 10 seeds.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Mature seeds not seen.
[FZ]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian wooded grassland, Zambezian woodland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, 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
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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