Crotalaria kuiririensis Baker f.

First published in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 42: 300 (1914)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. DR Congo to S. Tropical Africa. It is an annual 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
Annual, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

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

Morphology General Habit
Erect annual 30–65 cm tall, with slender ascending densely silvery appressed pubescent branches.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 1-foliolate above, 3-foliolate below; leaflets 10–35 × 1–11 mm, linear-oblanceolate to oblong-lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, densely silky pubescent beneath; petiole 2–15 mm long; stipules 0.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes short, few-flowered (often seeming longer by suppression of upper leaves), with flowers clustered in many of the axils below; bracts 2–3 mm long, linear; pedicel 1–2 mm long, with small setaceous bracteoles on the upper part.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 4–4.5 mm long, tomentellous; upper lobes broadly triangular-acuminate, 1.5–2 times as long as the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard elliptic-obovate, yellow, lined reddish-brown, tomentellous outside; wings nearly as long as the keel; keel 5.5–6 mm long, angular, with a narrow twisted beak sharply incurved at the tip.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod sessile, 4.5–5 × 4 mm, ovoid-globose, silky pubescent, 2-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds 2.5 mm across, oblique-cordiform.
[FZ]

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]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • 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