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Crotalaria pilosiflora

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Identification
Isotype of Crotalaria pilosiflora Baker [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Crotalaria pilosiflora

Flora

Entry for Crotalaria pilosiflora Baker [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 pilosiflora Baker [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bull. Misc. Inform., Kew 1897: 251 (1897). —Milne-Redhead in Kew Bull. 15: 163 (1961). —Binns, First Check List Herb. Fl. Malawi: 79 (1968). —Brummitt in Wye Coll. Malawi Proj. Rep.: 64 (1973). —Polhill, Crotalaria Africa & Madagascar: 290 (1982). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 197 (1989). Type: Malawi, Nyika Plateau, Whyte s.n. (K, holotype).
Crotalaria oocarpa [family LEGUMINOSAE], sensu E.G. Baker in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 42: 339 (1914) pro parte. —sensu Verdoorn in Bothalia 2: 408 (1928) pro parte.
Information
Shrubby herb to 1.5 m; branches spreading pilose. Leaves 3-foliolate, with tufts of smaller leaves in main axils; leaflets (1)1.5–3.5 × 0.6–1.5 cm, elliptic, slightly to distinctly acuminate to the apiculate tip, pilose beneath; petiole of main leaves 1–3 cm long; stipules 2–4 mm long, linear-subulate. Inflorescences of 2 sorts; main racemes 6–12 cm long, ± laxly 6–12-flowered; supplementary inflorescences 1-flowered from leaf-tufts on a peduncle 1–1.5 cm long; bracts longer than the pedicel, 5–6 mm long, linear-lanceolate; bracteoles just below the calyx, setaceous. Calyx 7–9 mm long, densely pilose; lobes attenuately triangular, ± twice as long as the tube. Standard elliptic, yellow, ?finely reddish lined with age, pilose outside; wings ± as long as the keel; keel 1.1–1.3 cm long, angular, with a narrow twisted beak. Pod with a stipe c. 2 mm long, 1.2–1.5 × 0.7–0.8 cm, obliquely obovoid, furry, 12–14-seeded. Mature seeds not seen.
Habitat
Miombo woodland, often growing in grassy places and along streams
Range
Known only from the Nyika Plateau in northern Malawi
Altitude range
950–2100 m.
2100
950
Distribution
Malawi N Chitipa Distr., Nyika Plateau, eastern foot of Nganda, fl. & fr. 31.vii.1972, Brummitt & Synge in Wye College WC 104 (K; MAL; SRGH); Rumphi Distr., Livingstonia Escarpment, fl. & fr. 3.vii.1970, Pawek 3552 (K).

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