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Crotalaria forbesii

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Identification
Crotalaria forbesii Baker [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Crotalaria virgulata Klotzsch [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Polhill R., 1976
Related name
  • Crotalaria stipitata
  • Crotalaria forbesii
  • Crotalaria senegalensis
  • Crotalaria virgulata
  • Crotalaria laevigata

Flora

Entry for Crotalaria virgulata subsp. forbesii Baker 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 virgulata subsp. forbesii Baker Polhill [family LEGUMINOSAE], Crotalaria Africa & Madagascar: 292, fig. 79/3 (1982). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 210 (1989). TAB. 3,7: 39, fig. C. Lectotype, selected by Polhill, loc. cit.: Mozambique, without locality, but probably Zambezi between Sena and coast, Forbes (K, lectotype).
Crotalaria laevigata var. villosior Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Hooker, London J. Bot. 2: 577 (1843). Type as for subsp. forbesii.
Crotalaria forbesii Baker [family LEGUMINOSAE], in F.T.A. 2: 18 (1871). —E.G. Baker in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 42: 340 (1914).
Crotalaria aculeata [family LEGUMINOSAE], sensu Brenan in Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 8: 246 (1953) quoad specim. Brass 18020. —sensu Binns, First Check List Herb. Fl. Malawi: 78 (1968).
Information
Erect or rarely decumbent; branches rather long and straight with obvious tufts of small leaves (on short shoots) at the nodes, subappressed white pubescent. Leaflets 4–12(20) × 2–7(10) mm, linear-oblanceolate to obovate, usually hairy above when young, glabrescent; petiole 2–8 mm long. Primary racemes few, sometimes terminal, mostly leaf-opposed, slender, 2–5 cm long, 4–6-flowered, determinate; supplementary inflorescences numerous from tuft-like short shoots, 1–2-flowered on a filiform axis usually 1–2.5 cm (sometimes shorter, but then leaves also small and crowded); bracts 0.5–2 mm. Keel 8–12 mm long.
Habitat
Flowers almost all year round. Woodland and wooded grassland
Range
eastern Tanzania, extending southwards in Mozambique to Gorongosa, up the Zambezi and Shire Rivers, intergrading with subsp. virgulata (see above) in Tete and southern Malawi, then common all around Lake Malawi.
Altitude range
40–500(650) m.
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Distribution
Mozambique MS Marromeu Distr., Chupanga, fl. & fr. 13.vii.1941, Torre 3093 (BM; K; LISC).Mozambique T Changara Distr., Boruma (Boroma), fl. viii.1931, Sofia Pomba 37 (COI).*Mozambique Z 45.5 km Mopeia–Régulo Changalaze, fl. & fr. 2.viii.1949, Barbosa & Carvalho 3804 (K; LISC; LMA).Malawi S Lower Mwanza R., fl. & fr. 6.x.1946, Brass 18020 (K; SRGH).Malawi C Nkhotakota (Nkhota Kota), fl. & fr. 15.vi.1970, Brummitt 11425 (K; MAL; SRGH).Mozambique N Mecufi–R. Lúrio, fl. 29.x.1942, Mendonça 1114 (BM; K; LISC).Malawi N Karonga Distr., Lake Malawi, Ngara (Ngala), fr. 8.vii.1973, Pawek 7180 (K).

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