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Crotalaria cylindrocarpa

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Name

Identification
Crotalaria cylindrocarpa DC. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Crotalaria podocarpa DC. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Crotalaria senegalensis
  • Crotalaria cf. cylindrocarpa
  • Crotalaria cylindrocarpa
  • Crotalaria pseudopodocarpa
  • Crotalaria podocarpa
Common name
  • gyàďáár áwáákíí (JMD) gyàďáár yààráá (Lely) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • top (JB) (SENEGAL, SERER), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • makadod (JB) (SENEGAL, FULA-PULAAR (Senegal)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for CROTALARIA cylindrocarpa DC. [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 cylindrocarpa DC. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Prod. ii. 133. Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 164.
Information
Stem suffruticose, erect, branched from the base, 1 1/2–2 ft. high, slightly downy. Stipules 1/4– 1/2 in. long, erect, semilunate, persistent. Petioles spreading, 1–1 1/2 in. long. Leaflets three elliptic-oblong, pale green, scarcely pubescent beneath, narrowed towards the base and about as long as the petiole. Flowers in lateral and terminal racemes. Calyx silky, cut down to a shallow cup, teeth linear-lanceolate. Corolla yellow, middle sized; standard 1/4 in. long, oval, striate. Pod sessile, oblong-cylindrical, subcompressed, an inch long, short-silky, 10–12-seeded.
Distribution
Senegambia Upper Guinea Perrottet! Roger!Guinea Upper Guinea banks of the Gaboon, Duparquet (fide Baillon).

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