Crotalaria virgatulaKlotzsch [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] Verified by Baker, J.G., Crotalaria virgulataKlotzsch [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] Verified by illegible, Crotalaria virgulataKlotzsch [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] (stored under name); Crotalaria virgulataKlotzsch [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ]
Related name
Crotalaria virgulata
Crotalaria virgatula
Flora
Entry for CROTALARIA virgatula Klotzsch [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 virgatulaKlotzsch [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. i. 56.
Information
Stems suffruticose, 2–3 feet high, with copious ascending curved branches, slightly downy upwards. Stipules very minute. Petioles 1/8– 1/4 in. long, slender. Leaves with three sessile oblanceolate leaflets, central 1/2– 3/4 in. long, 1 1/2–2 lines broad, mucronate or emarginate, upper surface glabrous, lower slightly silky. Flowers in lax elongated terminal racemes of 6–9 flowers and also solitary in the axils of many of the leaves. Bracts lanceolate, minute. Pedicel 1/8 in. long, finely silky. Calyx 1/4 in. long, thinly silky, the teeth reaching three-quarters of the way down, upper lanceolate acuminate, lower linear. Corolla yellowish, twice as long as the calyx, standard 1/4 in. broad, keel with a long beak. Pod sessile, silky, oblong, 4–6-seeded.
