Crotalaria densicephala Welw. ex Baker

Species

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Characteristics

Leaves shortly petiolate, all 3-foliolate or sometimes the uppermost 1-foliolate; leaflets 3.8 × 1.2–4.5 cm, elliptic-oblong or elliptic to obovate, densely hairy on both surfaces or only beneath, sometimes tomentose and felty; stipules mostly 1.5–5 mm long, subulate, sometimes hidden by indumentum.
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Standard elliptic or elliptic-obovate, yellow, glabrous outside; wings mostly a little shorter than the keel; keel semicircular, with a rather small narrow beak, not strongly crested, 7.5–10 mm long, lanate-ciliate but not hairy on lateral surfaces.
Calyx 7–9 mm long, pilose on the tube but the lobes often subglabrous except for the densely ciliate margins; lobes attenuate, 2.5–4 times as long as the tube.
Pod shortly stipitate, 1.3–2 cm long, oblong-ellipsoid to oblong-obovoid, rather densely and irregularly covered with long spreading hairs, mostly 4–6-seeded.
Bushy herb, up to 1.2 m tall, but sometimes flowering when no more than 20 cm tall, densely and coarsely hairy, sometimes tomentose.
Racemes dense, few–many-flowered; bracts 2–4 mm long, linear to linear-lanceolate; bracteoles on the short pedicels, rather smaller.
Seeds c. 6 mm long, obliquely oblong-cordiform, smooth or granulate, ochre.
Life form perennial
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.2
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

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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 densicephala world distribution map, present in Angola and Zambia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:488026-1
WFO ID wfo-0000207742
COL ID 6BHG5
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Crotalaria densicephala Crotalaria lachnoclada Crotalaria dumetorum