Crotalaria preladoi Baker f.

First published in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 42: 367 (1914)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is NE. Mozambique. It is an annual 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
Morphology General Habit
Annual, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

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

Morphology General Habit
Annual, with weak slender thinly appressed pilose branches.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 10–40 × 2–7 mm, variable in shape, narrowly oblong to linear-lanceolate or elliptic, thinly appressed pilose beneath; petioles 1–2 cm long; stipules 2–5 mm long, linear-lanceolate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes leaf-opposed, laxly 5–8(?–many)-flowered; bracts up to 2 mm long, linear; bracteoles inserted at the base of the calyx, c. 1 mm long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 4–5 mm long, thinly appressed pilose; lobes acuminately triangular, somewhat longer than the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard subcircular-obovate, white(?), lined reddish-purple; wings as long as the keel; keel c. 5 mm long, rounded, with a short slightly incurved beak.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod sessile, 9–10 × 6 mm, ovoid-ellipsoid, pubescent.
[FZ]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • 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