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Crotalaria capensis

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Name

Identification
Crotalaria capensis Jacq. [family FABACEAE ]
Related name
  • Crotalaria capensis

Flora

Entry for CROTALARIA Capensis Jacq. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
CROTALARIA Capensis Jacq. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Hort. Vind. t. 64;—Benth. l. c. p. 590. Thunb.! Fl. cap. p. 572.
CROTALARIA arborescens Lam. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], DC. Pd. 2. p. 130.
CROTALARIA incanescens Linn. f. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Information
shrubby, with terete, appressedly silky branches; stipules when present petiolulate, obovate and leaf-like, obsolete or wanting on many petioles; leaflets broadly obovate, obtuse or mucronulate, glabrous or very minutely pubescent on one or both surfaces; racemes terminal or opposite the leaves, lax, many-flowered; flowers (large) in longish pedicels; calyx pubescent, its segments longer than the tube; legume stipitate, appressedly pubescent. A tall, much branched, stout bush, thinly canescent or sub-glabrous, 4–5 feet high. Petioles very variable in length, 1/2–1 1/2 inch long, some of them furnished with a pair of leafy stipules, others on the same branch exstipulate; leaflets 3/4–1 inch long, obtuse or emarginate or acute or mucronate. Flowers bright yellow, an inch long, the alæ transversely rugulose and pitted. Flower-buds lanceolate. Carina glabrous.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Eastern districts, extending to Port Natal; common. (Herb. Th., Sd., D.)

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