Crotalaria quartiniana A.Rich.

First published in Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 158 (1848)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tropical Africa, Arabian Peninsula. It is an annual or subshrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

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

Morphology General Habit
Erect or straggling-ascending annual, up to 9 dm. tall, much branched.
Morphology Branches
Branches thinly pilose or (not in East Africa) appressed pubescent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets elliptic or ovate-elliptic, up to 4·5–7 cm. long, 2·3–4 cm. wide, acute, sparsely pilose on both surfaces; petiole up to 3·3–6·5 cm. long.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules filiform, up to 7 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes very lax, up to 10–17 cm. long, ± 3–10-flowered; bracts lanceolate, up to 10 mm. long, 4 mm. wide; bracteoles curved-ascending from the upper part of the pedicel, ovate, cordate, up to 10 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx practically enveloping the corolla, 10–12 mm. long, ciliate on the lobes, otherwise glabrous; upper lobes broadly ovate, cordate, rather unequal-sided, very much longer than the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard suborbicular, clear yellow, sometimes tinged bluish or red behind and at the base inside, glabrous outside; wings broadly oblong-obovate, as long as the keel; keel strongly rounded about the middle, with a slightly incurved shortly twisted beak, 8–10 mm. long, white lanate-pubescent along the upper margin proximal to the beak.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod subcylindrical, broadest towards the apex and basally narrowed into a 5–9(–15) mm. long stipe, 36–45 mm. long, 9–12 mm. across, glabrous, thin-valved, with only 8–10 of the 40–50 ovules matured.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds oblique-cordiform, up to 3 mm. long, smooth, yellowish-brown.
Habitat
Margins of upland rain-forest, upland evergreen bushland; 2000–2370 m.
Distribution
K3 K5
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Afromontane(upland) bushland and thicket., Afromontane (upland) anthropic landscapes, Afromontane forest
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Herb
[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: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
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    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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    • International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
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    • 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

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    • 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