Crotalaria huillensis Taub.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Crotalaria

Characteristics

Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 1–3.5 × 0.4–1.3 cm, oblanceolate to oblong-elliptic or obovate, rounded to slightly emarginate, appressed pubescent beneath to pilose on both surfaces; petioles 1.5–10 mm long; stipules up to 2 mm long, subulate to triangular, recurved.
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Racemes usually with a number of laxly to rather closely arranged flowers; bracts usually less than 2 mm long (longer in var. cacondensis), linear to linear-lanceolate; bracteoles on the pedicel, minute.
Standard broadly elliptic, yellow, glabrous or with a few hairs near the apex outside; wings a little shorter than the keel; keel 6–8 mm long, strongly rounded, crested behind the short beak.
Erect virgate or well-branched perennial herb or small shrub up to 1 m tall; branches densely appressed to spreading pubescent.
Calyx 4–6 mm long, subglabrous to pubescent; lobes longer than the tube, narrowly triangular.
Pod 7–9 mm long, shortly stipitate, subglobose to subcylindrical, densely pilose, 2–6-seeded.
Mature seeds not seen.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 1.0
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity -
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Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use Eczema (flower)
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 huillensis world distribution map, present in Angola, Namibia, and Zambia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:488259-1
WFO ID wfo-0000207960
COL ID ZNLC
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Crotalaria huillensis Crotalaria ramosissima Crotalaria huillensis subsp. huillensis

Lower taxons

Crotalaria huillensis subsp. zambesiaca