Crotalaria grata Polhill

First published in Kew Bull. 22: 282 (1968)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is E. Kenya. It is an annual or subshrub 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: confident
[AERP]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/179656/1585695

Conservation
EN - endangered
[IUCN]

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

Morphology General Habit
Erect, trailing or scrambling annual or short-lived perennial, up to 1·5 m. tall, laxly branched.
Morphology Stem
Stem usually sparsely pubescent with appressed or rather long spreading hairs, glabrescent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate to broadly elliptic, with the upper ones longer and narrower, up to 4·2–8 cm. long and 1·5–3(–6) cm. wide, glabrous above, appressed pubescent beneath; petiole 1·5–5 cm. long.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules subulate-caudate, up to 2–3(–5) mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes long-pedunculate, up to 33–45 cm. long, with many fairly closely arranged flowers; bracts subulate-caudate, 2–4(–5) mm. long; bracteoles inserted near the top of the pedicel or at the base of the calyx, ± 1–2 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 5–7 mm. long, thinly appressed puberulous; lobes acuminately triangular, longer than the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard elliptic-obovate, yellow, veined dark red, glabrous outside; wings little more than half as long as the keel; keel strongly rounded about the middle, with a rather long much narrowed and incurved untwisted beak, 13–14 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod shortly stipitate, cylindrical, 26–33 mm. long, 6–8 mm. across, shortly rather spreading pubescent, ± 24–40-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds oblique-cordi-form, ± 3 mm. long, low and irregularly papillose, brown.
Figures
Fig. 128, p. 929.
Habitat
Deciduous and secondary coastal buahland and grassland; also persisting on cultivated ground; under 50 m.
Distribution
K7 not known elsewhere
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; bushland and thicket., Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; grassland.
Morphology General Habit
Annual, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

Sources

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    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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    • 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

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    • International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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    • 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