Crotalaria emarginataBojer ex Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE ]
Related name
Crotalaria emarginata
Flora
Entry for CROTALARIA emarginata Bojer [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 1, (1871) Author: Papilionaceae by Mr. J. G. Baker; Caesalpinieae and Mimoseae by Prof. Oliver)
Names
CROTALARIA emarginataBojer [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 584.
CROTALARIA cylindricaA. Rich. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Fl. Abyss. i. 154?
Information
Stem erect, suffruticose, striate, densely clothed with short grey pubescence. Stipules none. Petioles 1/2 in., erect, silky. Leaves with three sessile oblanceolate leaflets, 3/4 in. long, 1/4– 3/8 in. broad, conspicuously emarginate, densely silky on both sides. Flowers in stalked many-flowered terminal racemes 2–3 in. long. Bracts minute. Pedicels silky, 1 line long. Calyx silky, broadly and obliquely campanulate, 2 lines deep, teeth lanceolate-acuminate, about equalling the tube. Corolla three times as long as the calyx, bright yellow, conspicuously striated, standard 4 lines broad, keel beaked and much upcurved. Ovary villose, multiovulate. Pod unknown.
Distribution
Pemba Island Mozamb. Dist. north of Zanzibar, Bojer!
Notes
The description of the Abyssinian C. cylindrica, which I have not seen, agrees with this as far as it goes.