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Crotalaria inhabilis

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Identification
Isotype of Crotalaria inhabilis I.Verd. [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Crotalaria monteiroi Taub. ex Baker f. [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Crotalaria monteiroi
  • Crotalaria inhabilis

Flora

Entry for Crotalaria monteiroi var. galpinii Burtt Davy ex Verdoorn [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 monteiroi var. galpinii Burtt Davy ex Verdoorn [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bothalia 2: 391 (1928) excl. specim. F.A. Rogers 11810. —Burtt Davy, Fl. Pl. Ferns Transvaal, pt. 2: 398 (1932). —Drummond in Kirkia 8: 218 (1972). —Polhill, Crotalaria Africa & Madagascar: 83 (1982). Type from South Africa (Mpumalanga).
Crotalaria rigidula Baker f. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in J. Bot. 58: 75 (1920). —Verdoorn in Bothalia 2: 391 (1928). —Burtt Davy, Fl. Pl. Ferns Transvaal, pt. 2: 398 (1932). Type from South Africa (Northern Province).
Crotalaria breyeri N.E. Br. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bull. Misc. Inform., Kew 1922: 27 (1922). Type from South Africa (Northern Province).
Crotalaria inhabilis Verdoorn [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bothalia 3: 238 (1937). Type from South Africa (Northern Province).
Information
Leaflets (10)15–30 mm long; petioles 10–30 mm long. Bracts (1.5)2–3 mm long. Keel (16)18–20 mm long.
Habitat
Miombo and Colophospermum woodland, tree savanna
Range
mostly more inland and further within South Africa than var. monteiroi
Altitude range
up to 550 m.
550
0
inferred only top
Distribution
Mozambique M Moamba–Ressano Garcia, fl. 3.xii.1940, Torre 2224 (BM; LISC); Namaacha Falls, fl. 7.xii.1942, Torre 1693 (LISC).Mozambique T Magoe Distr., 46 km de Mphende (Mágoè) para Mukumbura (Mucumbura), fr. 9.iii.1970, Torre & Correia 18229 (LMU).Zimbabwe S Chiredzi Distr., west of Save (Sabi) R, Chionja, fl. 29.i.1957, Phipps 227 (BM; K; SRGH); Beitbridge Distr., Tshiturapadsi (Chiturupazi)–Chikwarakwara, fl. & fr. 24.ii.1961, Wild 5375 (K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (Northern Province, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal)
Notes
var. galpinii forms a morphological and geographical link between var. monteiroi and C.pallidicaulis, which in their typical forms look quite different. Without pods some difficulty may be found in naming plants from southern Zimbabwe, and in the province of Maputo there is an intergradation of the two varieties. Although there is a case for treating these taxa as three subspecies, the changing of familiar names does not really seem to be justified, particularly as the two existing varieties seem to intergrade to the greater extent (see Polhill, loc. cit. (1982)).

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