Crotalaria kipilaensis R.Wilczek

First published in Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 23: 175 (1953)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. DR Congo to Angola. It is an annual 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]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian woodland
Morphology General Habit
Annual, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

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

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard elliptic to elliptic-obovate, yellow, densely pubescent to tomentellous outside; wings shorter than the keel; keel 6–8 mm long, angular, with a long narrow twisted beak incurved at the tip.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod sessile, 5–6 × 4–4.5 mm, ovoid-globose, appressed pubescent, 2-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds 2–2.5 mm long, oblique-cordiform, smooth, with a pronounced aril.
Morphology General Habit
Erect ± branching annual 25–80 cm tall; stem densely appressed to slightly spreading pubescent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate, uppermost occasionally 1-foliolate; leaflets (10)15–35 × (5)7–15 mm, oblong-oblanceolate to oblong-obovate, rounded at the apex, appressed pubescent beneath; petiole 8–20 mm long, slightly winged; stipules 0.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes sessile, 3–10 cm long, densely many-flowered, with other flowers in the axils below; bracts 3–4 mm long, linear to linear-lanceolate, exceeding the pedicel; bracteoles on the pedicel, setaceous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 5–6 mm long, densely appressed pubescent; lobes narrowly triangular-lanceolate, upper ones 4 times as long as the tube.
[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

  • 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