Crotalaria flavicarinata Baker F.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Crotalaria

Characteristics

Standard elliptic, greenish-white, lined reddish-purple, subglabrous to extensively pubescent outside; wings brighter yellow, shorter than the keel; keel 1.1–1.3(1.5) cm long, abruptly angled in the lower part, with a long straight beak darker coloured at the tip.
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Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 1.5–6 × 0.5–3 cm, elliptic to oblong-obovate, shortly and often sparsely hairy at least beneath; petiole shorter than the leaflets; stipules 1–3(4) mm long, linear-subulate.
Calyx 4.5–6 mm long, puberulous; lobes subulate or narrowly triangular-acuminate, shorter than the tube, reflexed.
Erect herb or short-lived shrub, 0.6–2 m tall; branches somewhat angular, ribbed, shortly hairy, glabrescent.
Racemes lax, 8–30-flowered; bracts 1–2 mm long, linear or subulate; bracteoles on the pedicel, smaller.
Pod subsessile, (12)16–22 × 7–8 mm, puberulous, ultimately glabrescent, up to 10–16-seeded.
Seeds 3 mm long, broadly oblique-cordiform, smooth, ochre or brown.
Life form perennial
Growth form
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.6 - 2.0
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

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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 flavicarinata world distribution map, present in Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:488135-1
WFO ID wfo-0000210436
COL ID ZNHB
BDTFX ID -
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Synonyms

Crotalaria flavicarinata Crotalaria cataractarum