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Crotalaria monteiroi

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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 breyeri
  • Crotalaria monteiroi
  • Crotalaria capensis
  • Crotalaria inhabilis
  • Crotalaria athroophylla
  • Crotalaria scopioides
  • Crotalaria unrecorded
  • Crotalaria macrocarpa
  • Crotalaria rigidula
  • Crotalaria eldomae

Flora

Entry for Crotalaria monteiroi Taub. ex Baker f. [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 Taub. ex Baker f. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 42: 387 (1914). —Verdoorn in Bothalia 2: 391 (1928) excl. specim. F.A. Rogers 7712. —Mogg in Macnae & Kalk, Nat. Hist. Inhaca Isl., Moçamb.: 146 (1958). —Polhill, Crotalaria Africa & Madagascar: 82, fig. 5/9 (1982). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 192 (1989). Lectotype, selected by Polhill, loc. cit.: Mozambique, Delagoa Bay, Monteiro 18 (K, lectotype; P).
Information
Shrub or bushy subshrub, 1–2 m tall, with hairy ± glabrescent branches. Leaves often with short axillary shoots bearing clusters of smaller leaves, estipulate, 3-foliolate; leaflets 7–20(30) × 4–10 mm, usually small and obovate but in var. galpinii varying from oblong-oblanceolate to elliptic-obovate, puberulous beneath; petioles mostly 0.5–1.7 times as long as leaflets. Racemes mostly few-flowered; bracts 1–3 mm long, subulate or linear; bracteoles minute. Calyx 7–10 mm long, puberulous, rarely subglabrous; lobes triangular, sometimes acuminate, ± as long as tube. Standard ovate, yellow, usually marked orange or brown, glabrous or medially puberulous outside; wings 0.75–0.9 times as long as keel; keel 1.6–2 cm long, rounded about the middle with a rather short bluntly pointed beak. Pod including 6–8 mm long stipe 2–3(3.5) cm long, oblong-clavate, pubescent. Seeds c. 3.5 mm long, subcircular-cordiform, granulate or slightly rugulose, ochre or pale brown.

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