Crotalaria lotiformis Milne-Redh.

First published in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1935: 275 (1935)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Kenya. It is a perennial or subshrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket, Somalia-Masai grasslands, Afromontane grassland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

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

Morphology General Habit
Perennial, with several prostrate, decumbent or weakly ascending stems up to 3 dm. long, but often much shorter.
Morphology Stem
Stems rather densely pubescent with appressed or spreading rather silvery hairs.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves shortly petiolate, 3-foliolate; leaflets oblanceolate, elliptic or obovate, up to 23–48 mm. long and 4–15 mm. wide, rather densely silvery appressed pilose on both surfaces, the median and lateral veins often prominent beneath; petiole up to 5–7 mm. long.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules linear or linear-lanceolate, up to 5–10 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes long-pedunculate, up to 6–11 cm. long, with ± 3–8 flowers towards the top; bracts subulate, 1·5–4 mm. long; bracteoles inserted at the base of the calyx, linear or subulate, up to 1·5–3 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx (5–)6–8 mm. long, appressed pilose; lobes narrowly triangular, 2–3 times as long as the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard broadly elliptic or suborbicular, yellow, veined and tinged reddish-purple outside, with a few hairs medially and apically outside; wings ± as long as the keel; keel rather abruptly rounded below the middle, with a fairly short straight untwisted beak, 10–12(–13) mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod practically sessile, subcylindrical, sometimes slightly broadened towards the apex, up to 24 mm. long, shortly pubescent, ± 24–32-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds oblique-cordiform, 3–4 mm. long, smooth, brown.
Habitat
Grassland with scattered Acacia, evergreen bushland or upland grassland, also persisting on roadsides; on clay and laterite soils; 1500–2100 m.
Distribution
K3 K6 not known elsewhere
[FTEA]

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]

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

  • 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