Crotalaria hemsleyi Milne-Redh.

First published in Kew Bull. 15: 164 (1961)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is E. Tanzania. 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/179856/1592266

Conservation
EN - endangered
[IUCN]

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

Morphology General Habit
Erect annual or perennial, up to 1·5 m. tall.
Morphology Stem
Stem ribbed, densely pubescent with fine spreading brownish hairs.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets elliptic, up to 25–70 mm. long, 8–20 mm. wide, acute or rounded at the apex, ± densely covered with rather irregularly arranged slightly spreading hairs on both surfaces; petiole up to 28–45 mm. long.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules ± 1 mm. long, largely obscured by the stem-indumentum.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes up to 15–25 cm. long, with many flowers crowded at least towards the top; bracts subulate-caudate, expanded at the base, 4–6 mm. long; bracteoles inserted at the base of the calyx, filiform, 2–3 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx becoming basally truncate and deflexed against the pedicel, 5–8 mm. long, finely spreading pubescent; lobes acuminately triangular, longer than the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard suborbicular, bright yellow, glabrous outside; wings a little longer than the keel; keel rather strongly rounded about the middle, with a slightly incurved untwisted beak, 12–13 mm. long, lined and blotched red or maroon.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod subsessile, cylindrical, up to 25–27 mm. long, 6 mm. across, tomentose, ± 30-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds oblique-cordiform, ± 2·5–3 mm. long, smooth, reddish-brown.
Habitat
Upland secondary bushland, upland grassland with Pteridium, streamsides and abandoned cultivations; 1200–1500 m.
Distribution
T6 known only from the Uluguru Mts.
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Afromontane grassland, Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; grassland.
Morphology General Habit
Annual, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

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/

  • 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