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Crotalaria mossambicensis

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Identification
Crotalaria lanceolata E.Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] (stored under name); Crotalaria mossambicensis Klotzsch [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ]
Related name
  • Crotalaria mossambicensis
  • Crotalaria chirindae
  • Crotalaria lanceolata

Flora

Entry for Crotalaria lanceolata subsp. lanceolata [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 lanceolata subsp. lanceolata [family LEGUMINOSAE]
Crotalaria mossambicensis Klotzsch [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Peters, Naturw. Reise Mossambique 6, part 1: 60, t. 10 (1861). Syntypes: Mozambique, Cabaceira, Sena; and Inhambane, Peters (B†, syntypes; K; P).*
Information
Keel 6.5–9 mm long, shallowly rounded, with a rather short incurved beak, shorter than the wings. Pods usually (2.5)2.8–3.5(3.8) cm long, sometimes smaller in intermediate forms.
Habitat
Open woodland, grassland and disturbed ground, sometimes in damp places
Altitude range
0–1450(1600) m.
1450
0
Distribution
Mozambique M Namaacha, fl. & fr. 3.iii.1948, Torre 7469 (BM; K; LISC).Mozambique GI Inhambane, Peters (B†).Mozambique MS 5 km Chemba–Nhacolo (Tambara), fl. & fr. 23.iv.1960, Lemos & Macuácua 140 (BM; COI; K; LISC; LMA; SRGH).Mozambique Z Mocuba, Posto Agrícola, fl. 6.vi.1949, Barbosa & Carvalho 2984 (K; LISC; LMA).Zimbabwe S locality and date not recorded, Cleghorn 1869 (SRGH).Zimbabwe E Vumba road, roadside to Maitland Smith’s homestead, fl. 13.iii.1960, Chase 7469 (K; LISC; SRGH).Mozambique N Nampula, fl. & fr. 13.ii.1937, Torre 1377 (COI; LISC).Malawi S Zomba Distr., Mtwiche (Mtwice), fl. & fr. 10.iii.1955, Exell, Mendonça & Wild 772 (BM; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Marondera (Marandellas), 20.iii.1942, Dehn 656 (M; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Tanzania
South Africa (southwards to the Eastern Cape)
Madagascar

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