Crotalaria monteiroi Taub. ex Baker f.

First published in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 42: 387 (1914)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Tropical & S. Africa. It is a subshrub or shrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

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

Morphology General Habit
Shrub or bushy subshrub, 1–2 m tall, with hairy ± glabrescent branches.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves often with short axillary shoots bearing clusters of smaller leaves, estipulate, 3-foliolate; leaflets 7–20(30) × 4–10 mm, usually small and obovate but in var. galpinii varying from oblong-oblanceolate to elliptic-obovate, puberulous beneath; petioles mostly 0.5–1.7 times as long as leaflets.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes mostly few-flowered; bracts 1–3 mm long, subulate or linear; bracteoles minute.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 7–10 mm long, puberulous, rarely subglabrous; lobes triangular, sometimes acuminate, ± as long as tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard ovate, yellow, usually marked orange or brown, glabrous or medially puberulous outside; wings 0.75–0.9 times as long as keel; keel 1.6–2 cm long, rounded about the middle with a rather short bluntly pointed beak.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod including 6–8 mm long stipe 2–3(3.5) cm long, oblong-clavate, pubescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds c. 3.5 mm long, subcircular-cordiform, granulate or slightly rugulose, ochre or pale brown.
[FZ]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Tongaland-Pondoland regional transition zone; bushland and thicket, Tongaland-Pondoland regional transition zone - grassland., Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; grassland., Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; bushland and thick
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Herb/Shrub
[ILDIS]

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
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    • 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