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Crotalaria nutans

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Identification
Crotalaria nutans Welw. ex Baker [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Crotalaria sphaerocarpa Perr. ex DC. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Crotalaria squarrosa
  • Crotalaria nubica
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  • Crotalaria nutans

Flora

Entry for CROTALARIA nutans 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 nutans Welw. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], mss.
Information
A copiously dichotomously-branched annual, 1 1/2–2 feet high with finely yellow-grey silky branches. Stipules linear, deciduous. Petioles 9–12 lines. Leaflets 3, oblanceolate, 12–18 lines long, 3–4 lines broad, blunt with a very faint mucro, glabrous above when mature, finely adpressed-silky beneath. Flowers very numerous in moderately dense terminal racemes reaching 6–8 inches long, 9–10 lines broad. Bracts minute setaceous. Pedicels 1 line long, densely silky, finally cernuous. Calyx 1 line long, densely silky, the lanceolate teeth reaching more than halfway down. Corolla 4 lines long, bright yellow; standard ovate, acute; keel long-beaked. Pod subglobose, 2–2 1/2 lines long, turgid, glabrescent, 2-seeded, distinctly stipitate.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch!

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