Crotalaria goodiiformis Vatke

First published in Oesterr. Bot. Z. 29: 220 (1879)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Kenya to Mozambique. It is a scrambling shrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

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

Morphology General Habit
Bushy shrub or subshrub 1–3 m tall, with slender pubescent branches, often glabrescent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 1–5 × 0.5–3 cm, broadly oblanceolate, elliptic or obovate, sparsely pilose on both surfaces; petiole slender, shorter to a little longer than leaflets; stipules 1–4 mm long, filiform, caducous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes with few flowers laxly inserted on a very slender rhachis; bracts 1–3 mm long, subulate or filiform; bracteoles inserted just below calyx, 3–4(6) mm long, linear, ascending and sometimes curved.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 8–10 mm long, sparsely puberulous; lobes narrowly attenuate-triangular, more than twice as long as the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard subcircular, yellow or orange, marked darker, usually puberulous along midvein outside; wings exceeding keel; keel 9–12 mm long, strongly rounded about the middle with a short slightly incurved beak, lanate-pubescent towards base of upper margin, rarely sparsely so.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod (2)3–4 cm long, oblong-clavate, shortly stipitate, thinly spreading pubescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds 4–5 mm long, oblique-cordiform, slightly rugulose, dark brown, sometimes mottled greenish-brown.
[FZ]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Somalia-Masai wooded grasslands., Zambezian woodland, Zambezian wooded grassland, Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone ; woodland., Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transitional zone; wooded grassland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Shrub
[ILDIS]

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

Morphology General Habit
Bushy shrub or subshrub, sometimes scandent, up to 2·6(?–4·5) m. tall.
Morphology Branches
Branches slender, appressed or spreading pubescent, glabrescent; bark pale brown, conspicuously lenticellate.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets broadly oblanceolate, elliptic or obovate, up to 15–55 mm. long, 5–30 mm. wide, sparsely appressed pilose on both surfaces; petiole up to 12–45 mm. long.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules filiform, up to 2 mm. long, caducous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes lax, with few flowers on the very slender rhachis; bracts filiform, 1–3 mm. long, ± persistent; bracteoles inserted just below the calyx, linear, ascending and sometimes curved, up to 4(–6) mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 8–10 mm. long, sparsely appressed puberulous; lobes narrowly attenuate-triangular ± twice as long as the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard suborbicular, yellow or orange, marked and veined purple at the base inside and sometimes outside, usually puberulous along the midvein outside; wings longer than the keel; keel strongly rounded about the middle, with a short slightly incurved untwisted beak, 10–12 mm. long, conspicuously lanate-pubescent towards the base of the upper margin.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod shortly stipitate, oblong-clavate, (20–)30–40 mm. long, 8–10 mm. across, thinly spreading pubescent, ± 14–16-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds oblique-cordi-form, up to 4–5 mm. long, slightly rugulose, dark brown, sometimes mottled greenish-brown.
Habitat
Margins and clearings of lowland and upland rain-forest, dry evergreen forest, deciduous woodland and bushland, wooded grassland, also persisting on abandoned cultivations; 75–2100 m.
Distribution
K1 K4 K6 K7 T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T6 T7 T8
[FTEA]

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]

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