Crotalaria pudica Polhill

First published in Crotalaria Africa & Madagascar: 363 (1982)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Tanzania to Central Malawi. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian woodland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

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

Morphology General Habit
Stems numerous, ascending from a small woody rootstock, 15–30 cm tall, slender, slightly ribbed, strigulose-puberulous with brown-based hairs.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 8–15 × 2–5 mm, oblanceolate, rather densely appressed puberulous beneath; petiole 2–7 mm long, broadly grooved; stipules 0.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes 2–4 cm long, subdensely many-flowered; bracts 2–4 mm long, linear-lanceolate, 0.7–1.2 times as long as the pedicel; bracteoles on the pedicel, 1.5–2 mm long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 3–4 mm long, tomentellous; lobes triangular, 1.2–1.5 times as long as the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard obovate, yellow lined reddish-brown, densely puberulous over upper two-thirds outside; wings ± as long as the keel; keel 5–6 mm long, angular, with a straight twisted beak.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
Ovary hairy, 2-ovulate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod unknown.
[FZ]

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]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
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  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

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