- Family: Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus: Crotalaria L.
Crotalaria grata Polhill
- Genus: Crotalaria L.
This species is accepted, and its native range is E. Kenya.
Descriptions
According to Flora of Tropical East Africa
[FTEA]Leguminosae, J. B. Gillett, R. M. Polhill & B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1971
- Habit
- Erect, trailing or scrambling annual or short-lived perennial, up to 1·5 m. tall, laxly branched.
- Stem
- Stem usually sparsely pubescent with appressed or rather long spreading hairs, glabrescent.
- Leaves
- Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate to broadly elliptic, with the upper ones longer and narrower, up to 4·2–8 cm. long and 1·5–3(–6) cm. wide, glabrous above, appressed pubescent beneath; petiole 1·5–5 cm. long.
- Stipules
- Stipules subulate-caudate, up to 2–3(–5) mm. long.
- Inflorescences
- Racemes long-pedunculate, up to 33–45 cm. long, with many fairly closely arranged flowers; bracts subulate-caudate, 2–4(–5) mm. long; bracteoles inserted near the top of the pedicel or at the base of the calyx, ± 1–2 mm. long.
- Calyx
- Calyx 5–7 mm. long, thinly appressed puberulous; lobes acuminately triangular, longer than the tube.
- Corolla
- Standard elliptic-obovate, yellow, veined dark red, glabrous outside; wings little more than half as long as the keel; keel strongly rounded about the middle, with a rather long much narrowed and incurved untwisted beak, 13–14 mm. long.
- Fruits
- Pod shortly stipitate, cylindrical, 26–33 mm. long, 6–8 mm. across, shortly rather spreading pubescent, ± 24–40-seeded.
- Seeds
- Seeds oblique-cordi-form, ± 3 mm. long, low and irregularly papillose, brown.
- Figures
- Fig. 128, p. 929.
- Habitat
- Deciduous and secondary coastal buahland and grassland; also persisting on cultivated ground; under 50 m.
- Distribution
- K7 not known elsewhere
According to International Legume Database and Information Service
[ILDIS]International Legume Database and Information Service
- Conservation
- Insufficiently known
- Ecology
- Africa: Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; bushland and thicket., Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; grassland.
- Habit
- Annual, Not climbing, Herb
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Distribution
Other Data
Crotalaria grata Polhill appears in other Kew resources:
Herbarium Catalogue (5 records)
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
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Feb 1, 1965 | Graham, R.M. [2076], Kenya | K000058568 | ||
Feb 1, 1965 | Rawlins, S.P. [781], Kenya | K000058566 | ||
Feb 1, 1965 | Rawlins, S.P. [790], Kenya | K000058567 | ||
Feb 1, 1965 | MacNaughton, G.M. [138], Kenya | K000058564 | ||
Feb 1, 1965 | MacNaughton, G.M. [2717], Kenya | K000058565 |
Bibliography
First published in Kew Bull. 22: 282 (1968)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
- Lock, J.M. (1989). Legumes of Africa a check-list: 1-619. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Lock, J.M. (1989). Legumes of Africa a check-list: 1-619. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Polhill in Kew Bulletin 22: 282, fig. 23 (1968).
International Legume Database and Information Service
- Polhill, R. M. (1982). A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam 389pp Crotalaria in Africa & Madagasca
Sources
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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International Legume Database and Information Service
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Kew Backbone Distributions
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