Crotalaria crebra Polhill

Species

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Characteristics

Flowers 4–10 in terminal sessile heads and on suppressed lateral branches below, also a few in the axils; bracts progressively reduced inwards, outer ones foliaceous, the innermost linear; pedicel 1–3 mm long, sometimes with setaceous bracteoles.
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Erect annual 50–70 cm tall, with numerous ascending branches, the ultimate flowering branches mostly suppressed to give axillary clusters of flowers and leaves; stem rather densely subappressed pubescent.
Standard elliptic-obovate, yellow, finely lined reddish, densely silky pubescent outside; wings ± as long as the keel; keel 8–10 mm long, angular, with a straight twisted beak.
Leaves mostly 3-foliolate, uppermost reduced, usually 1-foliolate; leaflets 7–15 × 2–5 mm, oblong-oblanceolate, thinly pilose on both surfaces; petiole 2–4 mm long; stipules 0.
Calyx 4–5 mm long, densely pilose; upper lobes narrowly acuminate-triangular, 2–3 times as long as the tube.
Pod sessile, 6 × 4 mm, shortly oblong-ellipsoid, pubescent, 6–10-seeded.
Mature seeds not seen.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.5 - 0.7
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Environment

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Usage

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Edible -
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Cultivation

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

Crotalaria crebra world distribution map, present in Zambia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:899590-1
WFO ID wfo-0000210827
COL ID ZNDC
BDTFX ID -
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Synonyms

Crotalaria crebra