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Crotalaria filicauloides

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Name

Identification
Crotalaria filicauloides R.Wilczek [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Verified by Polhill,R., Crotalaria filicaulis Polhill [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Polhill,R.,
Related name
  • Crotalaria cistoides
  • Crotalaria filicaulis
  • Crotalaria filicauloides
  • Crotalaria oxyphylla

Flora

Entry for Crotalaria filicaulis var. grandiflora Polhill [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 filicaulis var. grandiflora Polhill [family LEGUMINOSAE], Crotalaria Africa & Madagascar: 345 (1982). Type from Dem. Rep. Congo (Katanga).
Crotalaria filicauloides R. Wilczek [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bull. Jard. Bot. État 23: 177 (1953); in F.C.B. 4: 206 (1953). Type as for var. grandiflora.
Information
Standard 6–8 mm wide, rounded-obovate to oblate, tomentellous outside; bracts 2–4 mm long; petioles mostly 3–12 mm long.
Habitat
Miombo and its fringes on gritty soils
Range
Katanga as far west as the Kundelungu Plateau.
Altitude range
1200–1500 m.
1500
1200
Distribution
Zambia N Mbala Distr., Kambole Escarpment, fl. & fr. 21.iv.1969, Richards 24498 (K); Mweru Wantipa, road from Mporokoso to Nsama, fl. 16.iv.1957, Richards 9284A (K).
Notes
A very distinctive large-flowered form of the species, but apparently intergrading with var. filicaulis at the top of the escarpment south of Lake Tanganyika, e.g. Kambole Escarpment, late fl. & fr. 14.vi.1961, Richards 15278 (K).var. decaulescens (R. Wilczek) Polhill, from the Luapula drainage area in Katanga between Lubumbashi and Lake Mweru, is similar to var. filicaulis, but is altogether much less hairy, the calyx subglabrous and the standard puberulous only towards the apex.

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