Crotalaria fascicularis Polhill

First published in Kew Bull. 22: 307 (1968)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Ethiopia to Kenya. It is a subshrub or shrub and grows primarily in the desert or dry shrubland 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: threatened. Confidence: low confidence
[AERP]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Afromontane(upland) bushland and thicket., Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Herb/Shrub
[ILDIS]

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

Morphology General Habit
Shrub or bushy perennial herb, up to 1–2 m. tall.
Morphology Branches
Branches tomentose, with yellowish only slightly spreading hairs, ultimately glabrescent; bark with peeling epidermis.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves, except on the youngest branches, mostly crowded on very short lateral shoots, appearing fasciculate, 3-foliolate;leaflets oblanceolate, oblanceolate-elliptic or obovate, up to 15–37 mm. long, 5–18 mm. wide, glabrous above, thinly to rather densely appressed pubescent beneath; petiole dt 10–42 mm. long.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules linear, ± 2–4(–16) mm. long, rather persistent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes up to 4–13 cm. long, with few to numerous fairly closely arranged flowers; bracts linear, ± 2–5(–9) mm. long; bracteoles inserted on the pedicel, filiform, up to 1–5 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 5–7 mm. long, slightly protracted on the lower side, appressed pubescent; upper lobes triangular, ± as long as the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard broadly elliptic to suborbicular, yellow, becoming suffused with red or brown, glabrous outside or puberulous along the midvein; wings nearly as long as the keel; keel abruptly rounded below the middle, with a well-developed twisted beak, (12–)13–16 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod shortly stipitate, oblong-clavate, ± 25–30 mm. long, 6 mm. across, appressed puberulous, with apparently rather few seeds matured from the 20–24 ovules.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds oblique-cordiform, ± 3–3·5 mm. long, smooth, brown.
Habitat
Margins of upland rain-forest and dry evergreen forest, upland grassland and evergreen bushland, usually in drier, more exposed often rocky positions; 1950–2950 m., rarely extending down to 1300 m. along rivers
Distribution
K1 K2 K3 K4 U1
[FTEA]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • 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