Crotalaria mauensis Baker f.

First published in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 42: 342 (1914)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Kenya to N. Tanzania. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the desert or dry shrubland biome.

Descriptions

International Legume Database and Information Service

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

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

Morphology General Habit
Bushy perennial herb or shrub, up to 1–4 m. tall.
Morphology Stem
Stem densely covered with short tawny mostly slightly spreading and somewhat crisped hairs.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets narrowly to broadly elliptic, up to 50–80 mm. long, 26–52 mm. wide, glabrous above, appressed pubescent beneath; petiole up to 45–80 mm. long.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules filiform to subulate-caudate, up to 6–14 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes up to 13–30 cm. long, with numerous fairly closely arranged flowers; bracts attenuate-subulate or lanceolate-caudate, up to 8–13 mm. long; bracteoles inserted at the top of the pedicel or base of the calyx, linear, up to 6–9 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx (12–) 14–17 mm. long, densely pubescent or tomentellous with fine appressed brown hairs outside, puberulous on the lobes inside; upper lobes oblong, obliquely subtruncate with an excentric tip, longer than the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard oblate, yellow, often with a few hairs on the midvein outside; wings oblong-obovate, longer than the keel; keel rounded about the middle, with a short incurved untwisted beak, 12–15 mm. long, densely white lanate along the upper margin proximal to the beak, sometimes with a few hairs scattered on the lateral surfaces below.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod shortly stipitate, broadly oblong-clavate, up to 60–65 mm. long, 17–19 mm. across, densely brown spreading pubescent, ultimately glabrescent, ± 20–26-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds oblique-cordiform, ± 4 mm. long, smooth, blackish-brown.
Habitat
Edges of upland rain-forest, upland grassland and bushland; 1600–2300 m.
Distribution
K3 K4 K5 K6 T2 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: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • 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