Crotalaria collina Polhill

Species

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Characteristics

Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 2.5–10.5 × 1.5–5 cm, elliptic or elliptic-obovate, appressed pilose beneath; petiole shorter than the leaflets; stipules 2–5(10) mm long, linear to subulate-caudate, often recurved.
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Racemes shortly pedunculate, ± dense, many-flowered; bracts 1.5–3.5 mm long, subulate, deflexed; bracteoles at the base of the calyx, sometimes curved upwards, 1.5–2.5 mm long, triangular to linear-lanceolate.
Standard broadly elliptic to subcircular, bright yellow, glabrous outside; wings shorter than the keel; keel 8–11 mm long, rounded about the middle, with a narrow sharply pointed incurved beak.
Pod including the 2–3 mm long stipe 12–18 × 6–8 mm, ellipsoid, densely covered with longish irregularly arranged slightly spreading hairs, 2–4-seeded.
Calyx reflexed against the ascending pedicel, 3.5–4.5 mm long, coarsely hairy; lobes narrowly triangular, shorter to longer than the tube.
Seeds 4–5 mm long, very obliquely cordiform, with the radicular lobe strongly incurved, smooth, greyish or brown.
Bushy herb 0.6–1 m tall; young branches densely covered with longish subappressed to retrorsely spreading hairs.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.6 - 1.0
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

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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 collina world distribution map, present in Mozambique and Zimbabwe

Conservation status

Crotalaria collina threat status: Near Threatened

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:899587-1
WFO ID wfo-0000208747
COL ID ZNCS
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Synonyms

Crotalaria collina