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Crotalaria barnabassii

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Name

Identification
Crotalaria barnabassii Dinter ex Baker f. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Crotalaria barnabassii Dinter ex Baker f. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Crotalaria mossamedesiana
  • Eucrotalaria barnabassii
  • Crotalaria ulbrichiana
  • Crotalaria unrecorded
  • Crotalaria barnabassii

Flora

Entry for Crotalaria ulbrichiana Harms [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 ulbrichiana Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 54: 384 (1917). —E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 46 (1926). —Polhill in Kew Bull. 22: 216 (1968). —Schreiber in Merxmüller, Prodr. Fl. SW. Afrika, fam. 60: 28 (1970). —Drummond in Kirkia 8: 219 (1972). —Polhill, Crotalaria Africa & Madagascar: 84 (1982). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 208 (1989). Syntypes from Namibia.
Crotalaria barnabassii var. cunenensis Torre [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Mem. Junta Invest. Ultramar, sér. 2, 19: 41, t. 20 (1960); in C.F.A. 3: 59 (1962). Type from Angola.
Information
Erect laxly branched annual, mostly 40–120 cm tall, with pubescent branches. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 3.6–6.2 × 1.8–3.6(4) cm, elliptic, glabrous above, pubescent beneath; petiole a little shorter to a little longer than the leaflets; stipules 3–7 mm long, linear. Racemes short and few-flowered at first, elongating and ultimately c. 20 cm long and many-flowered; bracts 4–5 mm long, linear-lanceolate; bracteoles up to 2 mm long, filiform. Calyx 1–1.4 cm long, sparsely to conspicuously puberulous; lobes narrowly attenuate-triangular, 2–3 times as long as the tube. Standard elliptic-oblong, yellow, subglabrous outside; wings 0.75–0.9 times as long as keel; keel (1.2)1.4–1.6 cm long, rounded about the middle with a projecting obtusely pointed beak. Pod up to 2.4 cm long, broadly ellipsoid-clavate, abruptly contracted to the 4–5 mm long stipe, pubescent. Seeds c. 5 mm in diameter, subcircular, flattened, rugose, brown.
Habitat
Tree savanna, streamsides
Range
in the Zambezi–Cunene drainage area
Altitude range
c. 900–1000 m.
1000
900
Distribution
Zimbabwe N Tete–Harare, fl. & fr. immat. 2.iii.1961, Richards 14512 (K; SRGH); Mount Darwin Distr., Mavuradonha (Mvuradona) Mission, fl. & fr. 31.iv.1964, Wild 6550 (K; LISC; SRGH).Zambia S Mazabuka, fl. & fr. 26.iii.1963, van Rensburg 1820 (K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Angola
Namibia

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