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Crotalaria lotononis

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Type of Crotalaria lotononis Welw. ex Baker [family LEGUMINOSAE]
Holotype of Dolichos lotononis Baill. [family FABACEAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Filed as Crotalaria uncinata Baker [family FABACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Crotalaria lotononis Welw. ex Baker [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Crotalaria glaucifolia Baker [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Crotalaria glaucifolia
  • Crotalaria lotononis

Flora

Entry for CROTALARIA Lotononis Welw. [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 Lotononis Welw. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], mss.
Information
Herbaceous, diffuse, glabrous, copiously branched, a foot or more high. Stipules 3–5 lines, setaceous, persistent. Petioles 9–15 lines.Leaflets 3, rather fleshy, glabrous, subcoriaceous when dried, lanceolate, subacute or bluntish with a mucro, reaching 18–21 lines long, the upper 1/4– 3/8, the lower 1/2 in. broad. Flowers up to 12–18 in copious lax short-peduncled lateral and terminal subsecund racemes. Bracts 1 1/2 line, setaceous, persistent. Pedicels 1 1/2–2 lines, glabrous, cernuous. Calyx 3/8 in., glabrous, the lanceolate teeth exceeding the tube. Corolla glabrous, reddish when dried, just equalling the calyx. Ovary short-stalked, linear, glabrous, ovules about 20. Pod unknown.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Pungo Andongo,in damp sand, Dr. Welwitsch!

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