Crotalaria elisabethae Baker f.

First published in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 42: 301 (1914)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. DR Congo to Angola. 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 branching annual (0.1)0.3–1 m tall; stem densely appressed pubescent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves mostly 3-foliolate, upper ones often 1-foliolate; leaflets 4–25 × 1–5(7) mm, mostly linear-oblanceolate, oblanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, lower ones sometimes oblong-obovate, rounded to retuse at the apex, appressed pubescent beneath, occasionally also above; petiole 2–12 mm long; stipules 0.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes variably developed, 1–10 cm long, subumbellate to sublaxly many-flowered, with many other flowers on shorter racemes or heads developing on ± abbreviated lateral branches and in the axils; bracts (1)1.5–2.5 mm long, linear-subulate to linear-lanceolate; pedicel 2–5 mm long, with setaceous bracteoles on the pedicel.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 3.5–5 mm long, appressed pubescent; lobes narrowly triangular, 2–3 times as long as the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard elliptic to oblong-obovate, yellow marked purplish-brown, medially and apically pubescent outside; wings markedly shorter than the keel; keel 7–9.5 mm long, angular, with a long narrow beak incurved at the tip.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod sessile, 4.5–5 × 3.5–4 mm, ovoid-globose, pubescent, 2-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds 1.5–2 mm long, oblique-cordiform, smooth, with a prominent aril.
[FZ]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian woodland
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

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/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