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Crotalaria phylicoides

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Identification
Crotalaria unrecorded unrecorded [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] Isotype of Crotalaria phylicoides Wild [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Polhill, R.,
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  • Crotalaria phylicoides
  • Crotalaria unrecorded

Flora

Entry for Crotalaria phylicoides Wild [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 phylicoides Wild [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Kirkia 4: 140 (1964). —Drummond in Kirkia 8: 218 (1972). —Polhill, Crotalaria Africa & Madagascar: 126 (1982). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 196 (1989). Type: Zimbabwe, Chimanimani Mts., 16.iii.1957, Phipps 683 (K; SRGH, holotype).
Information
Shrubby or suffrutescent, up to 90 cm tall; branches densely spreading hairy. Leaves closely arranged, subsessile, 3-foliolate; leaflets mostly 7–15 × 1–3 mm, linear to narrowly oblong-elliptic, with conspicuous recurved apiculum and inrolled margins, thinly hairy; stipules 1–1.5 mm long, subulate-triangular. Flowers solitary or in pairs; bracts 2–3 mm long, linear; bracteoles inserted on the pedicel, small. Calyx 7–10 mm long, rather densely and coarsely pubescent; lobes attenuate-triangular, up to twice as long as the tube. Standard subcircular or oblate, yellow, sometimes tinged reddish, pubescent at least medially and apically outside; wings exceeding the keel; keel strongly rounded, crested behind the short beak, 8–9 mm long. Pod 2–2.4 cm long, subsessile, oblong-fusiform, densely pubescent, 8–12-seeded. Mature seeds not seen.
Habitat
Rocky places in montane grassland
Range
Known only from the Chimanimani Mts
Altitude range
1700–1950 m.
1950
1700
Distribution
Mozambique MS Sussundenga Distr., Chimanimani Mts., fl. 8.vi.1949, Wild 2914 (K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Chimanimani Mts., fl. 6.vi.1949, Wild 2866 (K; LISC; SRGH); same locality, fl. & fr. 15.iii.1965, Corby 1277 (K; SRGH).
Notes
The affinity of this species is with C. gazensis, not with C. caudata and allies as suggested in comments quoted by Wild with the original description.

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