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Crotalaria becquetii

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Identification
Isotype of Crotalaria becquetii Polhill [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Verified by Polhill,R., Crotalaria becquetii Polhill [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Crotalaria laburnifolia
  • Crotalaria agatiflora
  • Crotalaria unrecorded
  • Crotalaria becquetii
  • Crotalaria exaltata

Flora

Entry for Crotalaria becquetii R. Wilczek [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 becquetii R. Wilczek [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bull. Jard. Bot. État 23: 188 (1953); in F.C.B. 4: 229 (1953). —Polhill in F.T.E.A., Leguminosae, Pap.: 855 (1971); Crotalaria Africa & Madagascar: 75 (1982). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 167 (1989). —F. White, Dowsett-Lemaire & Chapman, Evergreen For. Fl. Malawi: 324 (2001). Type from Rwanda.
Crotalaria ceciliae [family LEGUMINOSAE], sensu Verdoorn in Bothalia 2: 393 (1928) pro parte quoad specim. Stolz 641. —sensu Brenan, Check-list For. Trees Shrubs Tang. Terr.: 414 (1949).
Information
Woody herb or shrub, 1.3–3 m tall; branches early glabrescent. Leaves estipulate, 3-foliolate; leaflets 5–10 × 1.5–4.8 cm, elliptic-lanceolate to broadly elliptic, acuminate, subglabrous to sparsely pubescent beneath; petiole usually a little shorter than leaflets. Racemes lax, many-flowered; bracts 2–5 mm long, subulate or filiform; bracteoles small. Calyx plus funnel-shaped hypanthium 1.4–1.8 cm long, glabrous to thinly puberulous; lobes narrowly attenuate-triangular. Standard ovate, yellow, finely veined purplish outside; wings a little over half to two-thirds as long as keel; keel 2.5–3.2 cm long, strongly rounded, ± straight along upper margin, with a subtruncate upwardly directed beak. Pods with 0.8–1.8 cm long stipe 5.5–9 cm long, oblong-clavate to ellipsoid-clavate, markedly inflated, glabrous. Seeds c. 4 mm long, broadly oblique-cordiform, smooth, brown (sometimes darker veined).

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