Crotalaria inyangensis Polhill

First published in Crotalaria Africa & Madagascar: 287 (1982)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is E. Zimbabwe. It is a perennial or subshrub 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: low confidence
[AERP]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/122446907/122447069

Conservation
LC - least concern
[IUCN]

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

Morphology General Habit
Decumbent perennial; stems 15–60 cm long, densely covered with short stiffish irregularly shaped hairs, usually mostly spreading, some (sometimes most) appressed.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 1–3 × 0.5–1.8 cm, elliptic-oblong, elliptic or elliptic-obovate, appressed puberulous beneath; petiole 3–15 mm long; stipules 2–4 mm long, linear-subulate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes 3–15 cm long, pedunculate with 8–20(30) usually rather closely arranged flowers above; buds ascending; bracts 2–4 mm long, linear-subulate, sometimes exceeding the pedicel; bracteoles at the base of the calyx, rarely below, 1–3 mm long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 4–5 mm long, appressed puberulous; upper lobes triangular, slightly acuminate, not much longer than the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard elliptic or subcircular, yellow, lined and ageing reddish-brown, puberulous outside; wings only slightly broadened distally, as long as the keel; keel 7–9 mm long, angular, with a narrow twisted beak.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod subsessile, 7–9 × 4–5 mm, ellipsoid-obovoid, pubescent, 6–8-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds not seen.
[FZ]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Afromontane grassland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

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

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    • 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