Crotalaria ulbrichiana Harms

First published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 54: 384 (1917)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Tropical Africa to Namibia. It is an annual 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]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian bushland and thicket, Zambezian woodland
Morphology General Habit
Annual, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

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

Morphology General Habit
Erect laxly branched annual, mostly 40–120 cm tall, with pubescent branches.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 3.6–6.2 × 1.8–3.6(4) cm, elliptic, glabrous above, pubescent beneath; petiole a little shorter to a little longer than the leaflets; stipules 3–7 mm long, linear.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes short and few-flowered at first, elongating and ultimately c. 20 cm long and many-flowered; bracts 4–5 mm long, linear-lanceolate; bracteoles up to 2 mm long, filiform.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 1–1.4 cm long, sparsely to conspicuously puberulous; lobes narrowly attenuate-triangular, 2–3 times as long as the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard elliptic-oblong, yellow, subglabrous outside; wings 0.75–0.9 times as long as keel; keel (1.2)1.4–1.6 cm long, rounded about the middle with a projecting obtusely pointed beak.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod up to 2.4 cm long, broadly ellipsoid-clavate, abruptly contracted to the 4–5 mm long stipe, pubescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds c. 5 mm in diameter, subcircular, flattened, rugose, brown.
[FZ]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

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

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/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