Crotalaria grandibracteata Taub.

First published in Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1894: 48 (1894)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is N. & NE. Tanzania. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the desert or dry shrubland biome.

Descriptions

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Afromontane forest, Afromontane(upland) bushland and thicket., Afromontane (upland) anthropic landscapes, Somalia-Masai forest
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
Much branched shrub, ± 1–4 m. tall.
Morphology Branches
Branches pubescent on the very young shoots, soon glabrescent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic, up to 4–8 cm. long, 1·7–3 cm. wide, acute to rounded and mucronate, broadly cuneate, thinly appressed puberulous or glabrous above, appressed puberulous beneath, ultimately glabrescent; petiole up to 5·5–8 cm. long.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules absent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes up to 12–22 cm. long, with a rather slender slightly zig-zag rhachis, many-flowered; bracts ovate to suborbicular, 14–27 mm. long, 8–24 mm. wide, caducous; bracteoles inserted near the middle of the pedicel, filiform, up to 2 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 13–20 mm. long, basally narrowed into a prominent receptacle, glabrous to sparsely appressed puberulous outside, usually minutely crisped puberulous on the lobes inside; upper and lateral lobes on either side joined almost to the tips.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard ovate, yellow, often lined or flushed with purple, glabrous outside; wings a little over half to two-thirds as long as the keel; keel strongly rounded about the middle with a well developed straight truncate upwardly directed untwisted beak, 28–32 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod ellipsoid-clavate, abruptly contracted into the 2–2·5 cm. long stipe, ± 7–8 cm. long, 2 cm. across, glabrous, many-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds obliquely suborbicular-cordiform, up to 7 mm. long, smooth, brown.
Habitat
Margins, clearings and streamsides of lowland and upland rain-forest, rarely extending into upland grassland, also persisting on cultivated ground; 600–3000 m.
Distribution
T2 T3 not known elsewhere
[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: threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/179294/1574185

Conservation
LC - least concern
[IUCN]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • 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/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • 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