Crotalaria insignis Polhill

First published in Crotalaria Africa & Madagascar: 76 (1982)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Tropical Africa. It is a shrub 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]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/66106749/66106753

Conservation
VU - vulnerable
[IUCN]

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

Morphology General Habit
Virgately branched shrub, 1.5–3 m tall, with shortly, densely and persistently pubescent branches.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets mostly 3.4–5 × 0.9–2.2 cm, narrowly elliptic to elliptic, acute to rounded at the apex, glabrous above, densely appressed puberulous beneath; petiole shorter than leaflets; stipules 2–3 mm long, subulate, persistent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes lax, 6–12-flowered; bracts 3–4 mm long, linear-subulate; bracteoles setaceous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx with funnel-shaped hypanthium 1.5–1.7 cm long, densely puberulous; upper lobes narrowly attenuate-triangular, ± as long as calyx tube plus hypanthium.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard broadly elliptic, yellow turning bronze; wings longer than the keel; keel 2.4–2.8 cm long, strongly rounded, ± straight along upper margin, abruptly contracted into a well developed darker marked upwardly directed truncate beak.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod including the 0.8–1.2 cm long stipe 5.5–6.5 cm long, oblong-clavate, densely pubescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds not seen.
[FZ]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Afromontane(upland) bushland and thicket.
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Shrub
[ILDIS]

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

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

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

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • 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