Crotalaria pteropoda Balf.f.

First published in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh 11: 508 (1882)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is NE. Somalia, NW. Socotra, S. Arabian Peninsula. It is an annual, perennial or subshrub and grows primarily in the desert or dry shrubland 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]

M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS

Morphology General Habit
Annual or short-lived perennial with prostrate radiating appressed pubescent stems to 20 cm long
Morphology Leaves Leaflets
Leaflets 3, obovate, up to 17 x 11 mm, appressed pubescent on both sides or occasionally glabrous above; petiole up to 12 mm long
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules minute
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers solitary in leaf axils, subsessile, but with a pedicel-like, narrowly winged hypanthium up to more than 1 cm long
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx up to 15 mm long, pubescent, with 4 large, ovate-elliptic lobes enclosing the corolla
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard pale pink to brownish purple, medially pubescent outside; wings yellow (in Somalia); keel subangular in lower part, up to 12 mm long, with a straight untwisted beak
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod c. 14 x 7 mm, appressed pubescent, many-seeded.
Distribution
N3 (Al Miskat); Socotra, Oman
Ecology
Altitude range 750–900 m.
[FSOM]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

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

  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • 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/

  • 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