Crotalaria baumii Harms

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Crotalaria

Characteristics

Leaves 3-foliolate, uppermost reduced, sometimes 1-foliolate; leaflets 5–13 × 3–11 mm, obovate to obovate-circular, rarely oblanceolate, rounded or emarginate at the apex, punctate above, appressed puberulous to finely pubescent beneath, rarely also above; petiole 1–5 mm long; stipules 0.
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Racemes 1–3 cm long, subumbelliform, sometimes with 1–few flowers below the main head, 6–many-flowered; bracts 1.5–3.5 mm long, linear to linear-spathulate; pedicel 2–3 mm long, sometimes with setaceous bracteoles.
Standard obovate, yellow, ± densely pubescent on the upper half outside; wings a little shorter than the keel; keel 5–6 mm long, angular, with a narrow twisted beak.
Prostrate annual; stems numerous, radiating, slender, 10–40 cm long, well branched, appressed puberulous to finely ± spreading pubescent, glabrescent.
Calyx 2.5–4 mm long, densely pubescent; upper lobes triangular-acuminate, 1.2–2 times as long as the tube.
Pod sessile, 3–4 × 2.5–3 mm, ovoid-globose, appressed pubescent, 2-seeded.
Seeds 1.5–2 mm long, broadly cordiform, smooth.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Hardiness (USDA) 10-12

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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 21 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 23
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Germination treatment soaking
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Distribution

Crotalaria baumii world distribution map, present in Angola and Zambia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:487853-1
WFO ID wfo-0000210916
COL ID ZN9F
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Synonyms

Crotalaria baumii