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Crotalaria anagyroides

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Name

Identification
Crotalaria micans Link [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Bernal M.,H. Y., 1982 Crotalaria anagyroides Kunth [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Sen.,,
Related name
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Flora

Entry for Crotalaria micans Link [family LEGUMINOSAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 3, Part 7, (2003) Author: various authors
Names
Crotalaria micans Link [family LEGUMINOSAE], Hort. Berol. 2: 228 (1833). —Polhill, Crotalaria Africa & Madagascar: 371 (1982). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 191 (1989). Type from Central America.
Crotalaria anagyroides Kunth [family LEGUMINOSAE], Nov. Gen. Sp. Pl. 6: 404 (1824). Type from Venezuela.
Information
Shrub 1–3 m tall. Leaves 3-foliolate; stipules linear or lacking; leaflets 3.5–10 × 1–4.5 cm, elliptic, appressed pubescent beneath. Racemes 15–30 cm long; bracts linear, usually caducous. Calyx 0.8–1.2 cm long, densely appressed pubescent. Standard ovate-circular, bright yellow, marked blackish and later reddish at centre; keel 1.3–1.5 cm long, shorter than the broad wings, abruptly rounded about the middle, with a fairly short slightly incurved obtuse beak, lanate towards the upper edge. Pod 3–4 × 1–1.4 cm, stipitate, cylindrical, pubescent.
Range
Native of tropical America, grown as a garden ornamental and as shade for young tea plants
Distribution
Mozambique M Umbelúzi, fl. & fr. 19.viii.1949, Myre 755 (LISC; LMA).Zimbabwe E tea estates near Nyamingura R., fl. & fr. 3.iv.1958, Phipps 1220 (BR; K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Marondera Distr., Grasslands Research Station, fl. & fr. immat. 15.iv.1965, Corby 1304 (K; SRGH).

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