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Crotalaria zanzibarica

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Name

Identification
Crotalaria thomensis Baker f. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Crotalaria zanzibarica Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Crotalaria thomensis
  • Crotalaria zanzibarica
  • Crotalaria trichotoma
  • Crotalaria striata
  • Crotalaria emarginata

Flora

Entry for CROTALARIA zanzibarica Benth. [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 zanzibarica Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 584.
Information
Stem suffruticose, erect, prominently striate, clothed with dense short grey pubescence. Stipules none. Petioles 3/4 in. long, slender, spreading, pubescent. Leaves with three oblanceolate leaflets, central 1 1/2 in. long, 1/2 in. broad, point rounded slightly mucronate, upper surface dark green, glabrous, lower paler, densely but finely silky. Flowers 12–20 in lax many-flowered terminal racemes. Bracts minute. Pedicels 1/8 in. silky, spreading. Calyx silky on the back, the rest nearly glabrous, obliquely campanulate, not more than 1/8 in. deep, the teeth deltoid mucronate, one-third as long as the tube. Corolla bright yellow, 1/2 in. long, standard 3/8 in. broad, the keel with a long beak. Ovary densely silky. Pod unknown.
Distribution
Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. Bojer!

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