Crotalaria phylicoides Wild

First published in Kirkia 4: 140 (1964)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Tropical Africa (Chimanimani Mountains). It is a subshrub or shrub and grows primarily in the subtropical biome.

Descriptions

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

Morphology General Habit
Shrubby or suffrutescent, up to 90 cm tall; branches densely spreading hairy.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves closely arranged, subsessile, 3-foliolate; leaflets mostly 7–15 × 1–3 mm, linear to narrowly oblong-elliptic, with conspicuous recurved apiculum and inrolled margins, thinly hairy; stipules 1–1.5 mm long, subulate-triangular.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers solitary or in pairs; bracts 2–3 mm long, linear; bracteoles inserted on the pedicel, small.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 7–10 mm long, rather densely and coarsely pubescent; lobes attenuate-triangular, up to twice as long as the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard subcircular or oblate, yellow, sometimes tinged reddish, pubescent at least medially and apically outside; wings exceeding the keel; keel strongly rounded, crested behind the short beak, 8–9 mm long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod 2–2.4 cm long, subsessile, oblong-fusiform, densely pubescent, 8–12-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Mature seeds not seen.
[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: threatened. Confidence: low confidence
[AERP]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/66106769/66106774

Conservation
LC - least concern
[IUCN]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Afromontane grassland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Herb/Shrub
[ILDIS]

Sources

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    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

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    • International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
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    • 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

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    • 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