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Magnoliopsida
Crotalaria L.
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Flower
A terminal raceme, yellow, striped with red. Flowering throughout the year.
Fruit
A pod, oblong, green. Seeds many, reniform. Fruiting throughout the year.
Leaf Apices
Apiculate
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf Bases
Cuneate
Leaf Margins
Entire
Leaf Shapes
Obovate
Leaf Types
Trifoliate
Habit
An erect herbaceous shrub.
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Rights holder/Author | Keystone Foundation, India Biodiversity Portal |
Source | http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/32573 |
gazensis: of Gazaland, a historic name for Southern Mozambique.
Annual, Herbs, Taproot present, Nodules present, Stems erect or ascending, Stems less than 1 m tall, Stems 1-2 m tall, Stems solid, Stems or young twigs sparsely to densely hairy, Leaves alternate, Leaves petiolate, Stipules inconspicuous, absent, or caducous, Stipule s free, Leaves compound, Leaves palmately 2-3 foliate, Leaves odd pinnate, Leaf or leaflet margins entire, Leaflets 3, Leaves hairy on one or both surfaces, Inflorescences racemes, Inflorescence axillary, Inflorescence terminal, Inflorescence leaf-opposed, Bracts very small, absent or caducous, Flowers zygomorphic, Calyx 5-lobed, Calyx glabrous, Calyx hairy, Petals separate, Corolla papilionaceous, Petals orange or yellow, Banner petal suborbicular, broadly rounded, Wing petals narrow, oblanceolate to oblong, Keel abruptly curved, or spirally coiled, Stamens 9-10, Stamens or anthers dimorphic, alternating large and small, Stamens monadelphous, united below, Filaments glabrous, Style terete, Style hairy, Fruit a legume, Fruit stipitate, Fruit unilocular, Fruit freely dehiscent, Fruit elongate, straight, Fruit oblong or ellipsoidal, Fruit strongly curved, falcate, bent, or lunate, Fruit exserted from calyx, Fruit inflated or turgid, Fruit glabrous or glabrate, Fruit 11-many se eded, Seeds ovoid to rounded in outline, Seed surface smooth, Seeds olive, brown, or black.
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Rights holder/Author | Compiled from several sources by Dr. David Bogler, Missouri Botanical Garden in collaboration with the USDA NRCS NPDC |
Source | http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=CRPA10 |
Small shrub, 1-2m tall. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets elliptic-oblong, oblanceolate or obovate, 1-4 cm long, hairless above, pubescent beneath; margins often rolled under; petiole 5-16 mm long. Stipules 1-4 mm long, triangular-lanceolate, recurved. Flowers in few-flowered racemes or sometimes solitary, terminal, often on short lateral branches; bracts up to 2.5 mm long, linear-lanceolate; bracteoles inserted on the pedicel, small and filiform. Standard subcircular, yellow, sometimes with darker lines or reddish tinge; wings longer than the keel; keel 7-10 mm long, strongly rounded and crested behind a short beak. Pods 2-3 cm long, subcylindrical, pubescent.
200-1370 m
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Source | http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=110&taxon_id=242315565 |
gazensis: of Gazaland, a historic name for Southern Mozambique.
"Introduced, native to Central and Tropical America. Found in plains, upto 1000m. Has also spread to Tropical Africa, Asia, Malaysia, Queensland."
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Source | http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/32573 |
Herbs, shrubs or rarely small trees (capensis and pallidicaulis). Stipules filiform to leaf-like, or 0. Leaves simple, 1-foliolate or digitately 3(-7)-foliolate, usually petiolate. Flowers usually yellow, variously marked, less often white or blue, usually in terminal leaf-opposed or less commonly axillary racemes or heads; bract and paired bracteoles usually present. Calyx usually with 5 subequal lobes. Standard usually with 2 appendages at the base inside; keel rounded to angled, generally with a well-developed beak. Stamens joined in a sheath; anthers arranged alternately with 5 long, basifixed and 5, smaller, dorsifixed. Style curved or geniculate, usually with 1-2 lines of hairs in the upper part, the basal portion thicker than the upper. Legume usually inflated, 1-many seeded.
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Rights holder/Author | Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings, Flora of Zimbabwe |
Source | http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=714 |
Frequent
Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.