Crotalaria goetzei Harms

First published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 28: 399 (1900)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Tanzania to N. Mozambique. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

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

Morphology General Habit
Bushy shrub, 1–3 m. tall.
Morphology Branches
Branches densely pubescent to tomentose with mostly slightly spreading hairs, ultimately glabrescent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets lanceolate-elliptic to obovate, up to 30–53 mm. long, 8–24 mm. wide, glabrous above, pubescent beneath, rather conspicuously veined; petiole up to 15–22 mm. long.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules linear to foliaceous with an elliptic-lanceolate to suborbicular blade 4–15 mm. long and 1–12 mm. wide.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes terminal or leaf-opposed, pedunculate, lax, up to 6 cm. long, few-flowered; bracts linear, 3·5–7 mm. long; bracteoles inserted on the pedicel, 1·5–4 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx ± as long as the keel, 9–13 mm. long, thinly pubescent; lobes attenuate-triangular, ± twice as long as the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard suborbicular, yellow, sometimes flushed dull purple, pubescent outside at least along the midvein and generally more extensively towards the apex; wings as long as the keel; keel semiorbicular, with a crest on the upper margin preceding the very short often slightly circumflexed beak, 11–14 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod shortly stipitate, sub-cylindrical, 25–38 mm. long, 8–10 mm. across, densely spreading hairy outside, sometimes with a few hairs along the placenta inside, 10–14-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds oblique-cordiform, ± 4 mm. long, obscurely papillose to smooth, brown.
Habitat
Riverine forest and upland grassland; 900–1920 m.
Distribution
T7 T8
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Afromontane grassland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Shrub
[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]

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

Morphology General Habit
Bushy shrub, 1–3 m tall; branches ± densely covered with mostly slightly spreading hairs.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets (2.5)3.5–5.5(7.5) × 0.8–2.5 cm, elliptic, elliptic-oblanceolate or obovate, pubescent beneath, rather conspicuously veined; petioles (0.5)1–2.5 cm long; stipules 4–15 × 0.5–12 mm, linear to foliaceous (with an elliptic-lanceolate to subcircular blade).
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes usually numerous, both terminal and leaf-opposed, laxly few-flowered; bracts 3.5–7 mm long, filiform to linear-lanceolate; bracteoles inserted on the pedicel, smaller.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 9–13 mm long, thinly pubescent; lobes attenuate-triangular, ± twice as long as the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard subcircular, yellow, sometimes flushed dull purple, pubescent at least medially and apically outside; wings as long as the keel; keel 1.1–1.4 cm long, semicircular, with a crest behind the short beak.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod 2.5–3.8 cm long, shortly stipitate, subcylindrical, densely covered with rather long fine ± spreading hairs outside, sometimes with a few hairs along the suture inside, 10–14-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds c. 4 mm long, oblique-cordiform, smooth or obscurely papillose, brown or dark grey-green.
[FZ]

Sources

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