Crotalaria limosa Polhill

First published in Crotalaria Africa & Madagascar: 356 (1982)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is NW. Zambia. It is an annual and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/19893080/20047228

Conservation
DD - data deficient
[IUCN]

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 branching annual 30–40 cm tall; branches ascending, slender, appressed puberulous, glabrescent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves mostly 3-foliolate, the uppermost sometimes 1-foliolate; leaflets 5–12 × 1–3 mm, narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, mostly obtuse, thinly puberulous beneath; petiole 0.5–1.5 mm long; stipules 0.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes 2–4 cm long, subumbellate with a few laxly inserted flowers below, 6–12-flowered; bracts 1–2 mm long, linear; pedicel 3–5 mm long, sometimes with setaceous bracteoles.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 3–3.5 mm long, puberulous; lobes attenuate-triangular, twice as long as the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard obovate-circular, bright yellow, glabrous or nearly so; wings nearly as long as the keel; keel 6 mm long, angular, with a narrow twisted beak only slightly incurved at the tip.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod sessile, 5 × 3 mm, ovoid-ellipsoid or shortly oblong-ellipsoid, puberulous, 1–2-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds 2 mm across, rounded-cordiform, smooth, arillate.
[FZ]

International Legume Database and Information Service

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

Sources

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    • 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
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    • 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)

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