Crotalaria poliochlora Harms

First published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 54: 381 (1917)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tanzania. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

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]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian grassland, Zambezian woodland
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 numerous slender prostrate or slightly ascending stems from a well-developed taproot, up to 4 dm. long.
Morphology Stem
Stems simple or ultimately laxly branched, shortly and densely pubescent with mostly spreading hairs, eventually glabrescent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets oblanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, up to 13–20 mm. long and 3–6 mm. wide, mostly rounded at the apex, finely white pubescent on both surfaces; petiole ± 5–15 mm. long.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules absent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes subsessile to shortly pedunculate, up to 3·5(–15) cm. long, with a number of rather laxly arranged to crowded flowers; bracts linear-lanceolate, 1–1·5 mm. long, shorter than the pedicel; bracteoles inserted on the pedicel, filiform, inconspicuous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 3·5–4 mm. long, with the tube protracted on the lower side, densely pubescent with mostly slightly spreading hairs; upper lobes subtriangular, longer than the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard obovate or suborbicular, yellow, veined reddish-purple and pubescent outside; wings scarcely shorter than the keel; keel bent at right-angles in the lower third, with a narrow slightly incurved twisted beak, 6–7 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod sessile, ovoid-globose, 5–6 mm. long, densely pubescent, with 1–2 seeds developed from the 6–10 ovules.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Mature seeds unknown.
Habitat
Grassland, secondary bushland and pathsides in general areas of Brachystegia woodland; 1200–1620 m.
Distribution
not known elsewhere T1 T4 T7
[FTEA]

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

  • 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