Crotalaria pilosiflora Baker

First published in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1897: 251 (1897)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is N. Malawi (Nyika Plateau). It is a subshrub or shrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian woodland
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: threatened. Confidence: low confidence
[AERP]

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

Morphology General Habit
Shrubby herb to 1.5 m; branches spreading pilose.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate, with tufts of smaller leaves in main axils; leaflets (1)1.5–3.5 × 0.6–1.5 cm, elliptic, slightly to distinctly acuminate to the apiculate tip, pilose beneath; petiole of main leaves 1–3 cm long; stipules 2–4 mm long, linear-subulate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences of 2 sorts; main racemes 6–12 cm long, ± laxly 6–12-flowered; supplementary inflorescences 1-flowered from leaf-tufts on a peduncle 1–1.5 cm long; bracts longer than the pedicel, 5–6 mm long, linear-lanceolate; bracteoles just below the calyx, setaceous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 7–9 mm long, densely pilose; lobes attenuately triangular, ± twice as long as the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard elliptic, yellow, ?finely reddish lined with age, pilose outside; wings ± as long as the keel; keel 1.1–1.3 cm long, angular, with a narrow twisted beak.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod with a stipe c. 2 mm long, 1.2–1.5 × 0.7–0.8 cm, obliquely obovoid, furry, 12–14-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Mature seeds not seen.
[FZ]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/172635606/176376613

Conservation
EN - endangered
[IUCN]

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

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 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

  • 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