Crotalaria incompta N.E.Br.

First published in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1909: 101 (1909)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Botswana to Namibia. It is an annual 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: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Morphology General Habit
Annual, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

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

Morphology General Habit
Erect annual with long spreading and ascending branches from the base upwards, up to 50 cm tall; branches well spaced above, sparsely appressed puberulous, glabrescent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 1-foliolate; leaflets 35–80 × 2–8 mm, linear-lanceolate, appressed puberulous beneath; petioles mostly 6–12 mm long; stipules 1–2 mm long, subulate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes laxly few-flowered; bracts 1–2 mm long, linear; bracteoles on the pedicel, similar.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx c. 5 mm long, appressed puberulous; lobes narrowly attenuate-triangular, nearly twice as long as the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard elliptic, yellow (?veining); wings little more than half as long as the keel; keel c. 8 mm long, shallow, shortly rounded about the middle, with a narrow almost straight sharply pointed beak.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod 1.5–2 cm long, shortly subcylindrical, slightly broadened upwards, abruptly rounded to the narrow 2–3 mm long stipe at the base, appressed puberulous, mottled before maturity, c. 16-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds c. 3–3.5 mm long, rather narrowly oblique-cordiform, rugose particularly peripherally.
[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