Crotalaria pseudospartium Baker f.

First published in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 42: 320 (1914)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Kenya to N. Tanzania. It is a shrub 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: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Leguminosae, J. B. Gillett, R. M. Polhill & B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1971

Morphology General Habit
Much branched scarcely woody shrub, 1–3 m. tall, glabrous.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3–foliolate; leaflets very reduced, narrowly oblong to obovate, 3–8 mm. long, 1–5 mm. wide; petiole constricted at the base, up to 40–78 mm. long.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules absent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes lax, up to 11 cm. long, few-flowered; bracts subulate, 2–3 mm. long, usually caducous; bracteoles inserted on the pedicel, filiform, 1–2 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 13–15 mm. long, basally narrowed into a prominent receptacle; upper and lateral lobes on either side joined almost to the tips, rarely separating in fruit, longer than the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard ovate-elliptic, yellow, often flushed with salmon or brown; wings a little over half to three-fourths as long as the keel; keel strongly rounded, with a well developed straight truncate upwardly directed untwisted beak, 30–35 mm. long, often speckled dull purplish.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod oblong-clavate, rather abruptly contracted into the 17–23 mm. long stipe, ± 58–72 mm. long, 9–10 mm. across, mottled maroon-brown, ± 20–seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds oblique-cordiform, ± 3–5 mm. long, smooth, brown.
Habitat
Open grassy places in dry Tarchonanthus, Acacia bushland on volcanic soils; 1400– 2250 m.
Distribution
K3 K4 K6 T2 known only from this part of the Great Rift Valley
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Shrub
[ILDIS]

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