Crotalaria campestris Polhill

First published in Crotalaria Africa & Madagascar: 357 (1982)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is SW. DR Congo to NW. Zambia. It is an annual and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian grassland
Morphology General Habit
Annual, 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: threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

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

Morphology General Habit
Slender erect annual 30–60 cm tall, branching above, glabrous.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves subsessile, 1-foliolate; leaflets 5–13 × 0.7–1.5 mm, linear-oblanceolate, acute; stipules 0.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes 2–7 cm long, very laxly 3–8-flowered, slightly flexuous; bracts 1–2 mm long, linear-lanceolate; pedicel 4–8 mm long, with small bracteoles near the base.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 3–4 mm long; upper lobes attenuate-triangular, 2–2.5 times as long as the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard elliptic, pale yellow, later flushed pink; wings much shorter than the keel; keel 11–12 mm long, angular, with a long straight narrow twisted beak.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod with a stipe 3–4 mm long, 8–11 (including stipe) × 5–6 mm, rounded ellipsoid, many-seeded (ovules 40).
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds 1 mm in diameter.
[FZ]

Sources

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    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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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