Crotalaria misella Polhill

First published in Crotalaria Africa & Madagascar: 293 (1982)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is N. Mozambique. It is an annual and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

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

Morphology General Habit
Prostrate annual with slender thinly puberulous stems to 60 cm long.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves all well spread, 3-foliolate; leaflets 8–12 × 7–11 mm, broadly obovate or obcordate, thinly appressed puberulous beneath; petiole c. 8–12 mm long; stipules 1–2 mm long, subulate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers 2 at the top of a slender leaf-opposed peduncle 0.8–2 cm long; bracts 1–1.5 mm long, linear; bracteoles on the pedicel, minute.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 2.5–3 mm long, puberulous; upper lobes rather broadly triangular, acuminate, a little longer than the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard narrowly elliptic-obovate, yellow, glabrous; wings a little shorter than the keel; keel 4.5–5 mm long, angular, with a narrow twisted beak.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod subsessile, globose, 4 mm across, minutely puberulous, 2–4-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds not seen.
[FZ]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/149257511/153685904

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]

International Legume Database and Information Service

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

Sources

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