Crotalaria torrei Polhill

First published in Crotalaria Africa & Madagascar: 164 (1982)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Mozambique (Gurué Mountains). It is a subshrub or shrub and grows primarily in the subtropical biome.

Descriptions

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

Morphology General Habit
Small rhizomatous shrub up to 1.5 m tall; branches densely spreading pilose.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 2.5–5 × 1.3–2.5 cm, elliptic or elliptic-obovate, pilose on both surfaces with irregularly arranged hairs, more densely so beneath particularly on the nerves; petiole 3–10 mm long; stipules (2)3–8 mm long, subulate-caudate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes rather short, densely 12–24-flowered; bracts 4–5 mm long, subulate-caudate; bracteoles inserted just below the calyx, 3–4 mm long, linear-caudate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 7–8 mm long, densely pilose; lobes narrowly attenuate-triangular, ± twice as long as the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard oblate, yellow, finely lined with brown, glabrous outside; wings broad, longer than the keel; keel 1–1.2 cm long, strongly rounded about the middle, with a narrow acute upwardly directed beak.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod sessile, 1.5–2 cm long (including the beak), ovoid-fusiform, produced into a well-formed beak (including style-base), densely spreading pilose, probably 6–8-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds not seen.
[FZ]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/108614103/108620124

Conservation
LC - least concern
[IUCN]

International Legume Database and Information Service

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

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/

  • 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