Crotalaria dewildemaniana R.Wilczek

First published in Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 23: 190 (1953)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Cameroon to E. Tropical Africa. It is an annual or subshrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

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]

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

Morphology General Habit
Erect annual or short-lived perennial, up to 1–2·3 m. tall, usually with numerous ascending branches from the base upwards.
Morphology Stem
Stem ribbed, appressed or rarely shortly spreading puberulous.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets variable, usually mostly elliptic-oblong to elliptic, with the upper ones longer and proportionally narrower, but occasionally all linear-lanceolate, up to 50–90 mm. long, (12–) 18–28 mm. wide, glabrous above, appressed puberulous beneath; petiole up to 24–48 mm. long.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules absent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes up to 15–45(–60) cm. long, with many rather crowded flowers; bracts subulate or linear-caudate, expanded at the base, 1·5–5 mm. long; bracteoles inserted at the base of the calyx, narrow, 1–2 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx becoming basally truncate and deflexed against the pedicel, 4–6 mm. long, rather densely appressed pubescent; lobes subulate or acuminate, a little shorter to a little longer than the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard obovate-orbicular, yellow, veined purple or reddish-brown and glabrous outside; wings subequal to or generally longer than the keel; keel rounded about the middle, sometimes rather abruptly so, with a slightly incurved untwisted beak, 10–13 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod subsessile, narrowly cylindrical, curved upwards at the tip, 28–36(–40) mm. long, 5–6 mm. across, shortly appressed pubescent, ± 60–75-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds oblique-cordiform, ± 2·5–3 mm. long, smooth, straw-coloured.
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Lake Victoria regional transition zone; grasslands, Lake Victoria regional mosaic; wooded grassland, Somalia-Masai grasslands, Somalia-Masai wooded grasslands.
Morphology General Habit
Annual, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

Sources

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