Crotalaria

Crotalaria huillensis Taub.

First published in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas, C: 205 (1895)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Angola to Zambia and Caprivi Strip. It is a perennial or subshrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian woodland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Herb
[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
Erect virgate or well-branched perennial herb or small shrub up to 1 m tall; branches densely appressed to spreading pubescent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 1–3.5 × 0.4–1.3 cm, oblanceolate to oblong-elliptic or obovate, rounded to slightly emarginate, appressed pubescent beneath to pilose on both surfaces; petioles 1.5–10 mm long; stipules up to 2 mm long, subulate to triangular, recurved.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes usually with a number of laxly to rather closely arranged flowers; bracts usually less than 2 mm long (longer in var. cacondensis), linear to linear-lanceolate; bracteoles on the pedicel, minute.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 4–6 mm long, subglabrous to pubescent; lobes longer than the tube, narrowly triangular.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard broadly elliptic, yellow, glabrous or with a few hairs near the apex outside; wings a little shorter than the keel; keel 6–8 mm long, strongly rounded, crested behind the short beak.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod 7–9 mm long, shortly stipitate, subglobose to subcylindrical, densely pilose, 2–6-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Mature seeds not seen.
[FZ]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

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

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • 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/

  • 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