Crotalaria incompta N.E.Br.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Crotalaria

Characteristics

Standard elliptic, yellow (?veining); wings little more than half as long as the keel; keel c. 8 mm long, shallow, shortly rounded about the middle, with a narrow almost straight sharply pointed beak.
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Pod 1.5–2 cm long, shortly subcylindrical, slightly broadened upwards, abruptly rounded to the narrow 2–3 mm long stipe at the base, appressed puberulous, mottled before maturity, c. 16-seeded.
Erect annual with long spreading and ascending branches from the base upwards, up to 50 cm tall; branches well spaced above, sparsely appressed puberulous, glabrescent.
Leaves 1-foliolate; leaflets 35–80 × 2–8 mm, linear-lanceolate, appressed puberulous beneath; petioles mostly 6–12 mm long; stipules 1–2 mm long, subulate.
Calyx c. 5 mm long, appressed puberulous; lobes narrowly attenuate-triangular, nearly twice as long as the tube.
Seeds c. 3–3.5 mm long, rather narrowly oblique-cordiform, rugose particularly peripherally.
Racemes laxly few-flowered; bracts 1–2 mm long, linear; bracteoles on the pedicel, similar.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.5
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

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Usage

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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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Distribution

Crotalaria incompta world distribution map, present in Botswana and Namibia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:488273-1
WFO ID wfo-0000210290
COL ID ZNLR
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Crotalaria incompta