Crotalaria blanda Polhill

First published in Crotalaria Africa & Madagascar: 348 (1982)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is N. Zambia. 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: threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

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

Morphology General Habit
Erect annual 0.8–1.5 m tall, developing numerous slender flowering branches above, densely silvery appressed pubescent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves mostly 3-foliolate, upper ones 1-foliolate; leaflets 10–20 × 0.7–2 mm, linear-oblanceolate, pubescent beneath; petiole 2–4 mm long; stipules 0.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes 8–20 cm long, laxly 10–30-flowered, with other flowers on shorter racemes or in the axils below; bracts 1.5–2.5 mm long, linear-subulate to linear-lanceolate; pedicel 4–7 mm long, with setaceous bracteoles.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 3.5–4 mm long, densely covered with fine irregularly arranged hairs; upper lobes triangular, 1.5–2.5 times as long as the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard broadly elliptic, yellow, later flushed reddish, silvery tomentellous outside; wings a little shorter than the keel; keel 1–1.2 cm long, angular, with a long narrow twisted beak hooked inwards at the tip.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod sessile, 5–7 × 4–5 mm, shortly ovoid-ellipsoid, densely pubescent, 10–12-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds 1.5 mm long, oblique-cordiform, smooth.
[FZ]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian woodland
Morphology General Habit
Annual, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • 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