Crotalaria cornetii Taub. & Dewèvre

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Crotalaria

Characteristics

Leaves estipulate, subsessile, simple; blade 2.5–5.5 × 1.2–3.5 cm, ovate-elliptic to elliptic or elliptic-oblong, bluntly pointed to rounded at the apex, shortly cordate at the base, chartaceous, ± glaucous, prominently venose on both surfaces.
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Standard subcircular, pink to mauve or purplish with darker lines; wings oblong-obovate, exceeding the keel; keel 1.4–1.6 cm long, strongly rounded about the middle, with a fairly short somewhat projecting pointed beak.
Racemes terminal and sometimes also axillary with the few flowers rather crowded towards the top; bracts 3–4(8) mm long, linear to linear-lanceolate; bracteoles on the pedicel, filiform.
Suffrutex with woody rootstock and numerous spreading or ascending subangular stems up to 75 cm tall, glabrous overall except for minute puberulence on the youngest parts.
Calyx 1.2–1.6(1.7) cm long, drying blackish; upper and lateral lobes on either side coherent, narrowly attenuate-triangular, more than twice as long as the tube.
Pod subsessile, 3–3.5 cm long, oblong-clavate to subcylindrical, with c. 10 seeds.
Mature seeds not seen.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support -
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.75
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Light -
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Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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

Crotalaria cornetii world distribution map, present in Angola and Zambia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:487982-1
WFO ID wfo-0000208200
COL ID ZND5
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Crotalaria cornetii