Crotalaria

Crotalaria inopinata (Harms) Polhill

First published in Kew Bull. 22: 247 (1968)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is NE. Tanzania. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical 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/179651/1585457

Conservation
EN - endangered
[IUCN]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Afromontane grassland, Afromontane(upland) bushland and thicket.
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
Spreading much-branched shrub, up to 2–3 m. tall.
Morphology Branches
Branches tomentose with brown mostly spreading hairs.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets lanceolate to oblanceolate-elliptic, up to 58 mm. long and 23 mm. wide, acute to rounded and mucronate, cuneate, glabrous above, rather densely appressed pubescent or pilose beneath; petiole up to 8–20 mm. long.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules subulate or filiform, (1–)2–5 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes terminal and leaf-opposed, shortly pedunculate, up to 4–10(–32) cm. long, with a number of flowers rather closely arranged at least towards the top; bracts shortly caudate-lanceolate, ± 2–3 mm. long; bracteoles inserted on the upper part of the pedicel, linear, 1–2 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx rather abruptly contracted at the base, 5–6 mm. long, appressed pubescent; lobes triangular-deltoid, usually a little longer than the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard suborbicular, yellow, sometimes veined brownish-purple, pubescent along the midvein outside or rarely glabrous; wings subequal to or a little longer than the keel; keel rounded about the middle, with an incurved untwisted beak, 12–13 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod stipitate, laterally much flattened, elliptic-oblong in outline, 22–23 mm. long, 11–12 mm. wide, tomentellous, 2–4-seeded; stipe 3–4 mm. long; style very persistent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds unknown.
Habitat
Margins, open and rocky places in upland rain-forest and upland grassland; 1200–2000 m.
Distribution
T6 not known elsewhere
[FTEA]

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

  • 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