Crotalaria schlechteri Baker f.

First published in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 42: 365 (1914)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Mozambique to Mpumalanga. It is a perennial or subshrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

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

Morphology General Habit
Perennial herb, with an erect laxly branched stem, 40–80 cm tall; branches silvery tomentellous.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves rather shortly petiolate, 3-foliolate; leaflets 3–6 × 1.5–3 cm, elliptic or obovate, densely silky pubescent beneath; stipules 4–6 mm long, linear or subulate-caudate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes with generally numerous flowers closely arranged at least on the upper part; bracts 2–3 mm long, shortly lanceolate-caudate; bracteoles at the base of the calyx, 1.5–3 mm long, obliquely elliptic-oblong.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 4–5 mm long, appressed pubescent; lobes narrowly triangular-acuminate, a little shorter than the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard broadly elliptic or subcircular, yellow, glabrous or with a few hairs along the midvein outside; wings as long as the keel or a little shorter; keel 1–1.3 cm long, rather shallowly rounded, with a tapered acute projecting beak.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod shortly stipitate, 2.5–3 cm long, asymmetrically oblong-clavate, rather densely appressed pubescent, 16–20-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds c. 3 mm long, broadly cordiform, smooth, brown.
[FZ]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Tongaland-Pondoland regional transition zone - grassland.
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

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