Crotalaria keniensis Baker f.

First published in Legum. Trop. Africa: 41 (1926)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is SW. Ethiopia to Tanzania. It is a scrambling subshrub or 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: not threatened. Confidence: low confidence
[AERP]

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

Morphology General Habit
Bushy or weakly straggling woody herb or shrub, rarely climbing, up to 2(–4) m. tall.
Morphology Branches
Branches subterete, puberulous and ultimately glabrescent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets oblanceolate, elliptic or elliptic-obovate, up to 16–30 mm. long, 5–15 mm. wide, bluntly pointed to rounded or retuse and apiculate, cuneate, glabrous above, puberulous beneath; petiole slender, up to 15–25(–30) mm. long.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules subulate to attenuate-triangular, 1–2 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes terminal and leaf-opposed, pedunculate, up to 11–20 cm. long, with generally numerous rather closely arranged flowers; bracts linear-subulate to narrowly triangular, 1–3 mm. long; bracteoles inserted on the pedicel, filiform, small.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 5–8 mm. long, protracted on the lower side, puberulous; upper lobes acuminately triangular, mostly 1–1·5 times as long as the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard broadly elliptic, clear yellow, fading salmon, glabrous outside; wings ± as long as the keel, or a little shorter; keel rather abruptly rounded below the middle, with a well-developed twisted beak, 11–13(–15)mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod oblong-clavate, narrowed into the 2–4 mm. long stipe, up to 25–40 mm. long, 7–12 mm. across, puberulous, glabrescent, developing a conspicuous vein network, ± 10–16-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds oblique-cordiform, ± 3 mm. long, smooth, greyish-buff.
Figures
Fig. 131, p. 953
Habitat
Margins and clearings of upland rain-forest, upland evergreen bushland and grassland; 1500–2700 m.
Distribution
K1 K3 K4 K5 K6 T2 T7 U3
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Afromontane(upland) bushland and thicket., Afromontane forest, Afromontane grassland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Climbing/Not climbing, Herb/Shrub
[ILDIS]

Sources

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    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew 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