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Flora
Entry for CROTALARIA arenaria Benth. [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 arenariaBenth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 474.
CROTALARIA thebaicaGuill. et Perr. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Fl. Seneg. i. 160, non DC.
Information
Stems shrubby, prostrate, not more than a foot long, very copiously branched, densely grey-villose. Leaves sessile, simple, oblong, 3–4 lines long by more than half as broad, subcoriaceous, both sides densely silky. Flowers 4–8 in lax short-stalked racemes. Calyx 2 1/2 lines deep, densely tawny-silky, teeth linear, reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla pale yellow, about equalling the calyx. Pod 5–6 lines long, half as thick, oblong, sessile, densely tawny-silky, 6–10-seeded.
Distribution
Senegambia Upper Guinea Perrottet! Roger!
Notes
Very similar to the last in general habit, but not spinose.
