Crotalaria reclinata Polhill

First published in Kew Bull. 22: 221 (1968)
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]

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

Morphology General Habit
Prostrate perennial, with a number of slender laxly branched radiating stems up to 4–9 dm. long.
Morphology Stem
Stems angular, white appressed puberulous.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves mostly well spaced, 3–foliolate; leaflets linear-oblanceolate, up to 30–45 mm. long, 3–5 mm. wide, glabrous above, appressed puberulous beneath; petiole up to 9–15(–22) mm. long.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules usually stalked, obliquely linear-lanceolate, up to 7–10 mm. long, 1–2·5 mm. wide, acute,very unequal-sided.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes flat on the ground with only the pedicels ascending, lax, up to 5–18 cm. long, ± 6–15–flowered; bracts linear, 2–4 mm. long, caducous; bracteoles inserted on the pedicel, filiform, up to 2–3·5 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 9–10 mm. long, appressed puberulous; lobes narrowly attenuate-triangular, longer than the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard suborbicular, clear yellow, fading orange, glabrous outside; wings broadly oblong, longer than the keel; keel strongly rounded and gradually tapered into the short straight blunt untwisted beak, 14–15 mm. long, densely white lanate-pubescent on the lateral surfaces towards the upper margin.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod shortly stipitate, narrowly cylindrical, ± 35 mm. long, 7·5 mm. across, glabrous, ± 22-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Young seeds oblong-reniform, minutely granulate or smooth, yellowish, with a very small white aril much shorter than the sinus of the hilum; mature seeds unknown.
Habitat
Deciduous woodland and bushland, open places in short grazed grassland, persisting on roadsides; 1200–1620 m.
Distribution
T2 T5 T7 not known elsewhere
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian woodland, Zambezian bushland and thicket, Zambezian grassland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

Sources

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    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • 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/

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    • 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