Crotalaria kuiririensis Baker F.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Crotalaria

Characteristics

Racemes short, few-flowered (often seeming longer by suppression of upper leaves), with flowers clustered in many of the axils below; bracts 2–3 mm long, linear; pedicel 1–2 mm long, with small setaceous bracteoles on the upper part.
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Leaves 1-foliolate above, 3-foliolate below; leaflets 10–35 × 1–11 mm, linear-oblanceolate to oblong-lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, densely silky pubescent beneath; petiole 2–15 mm long; stipules 0.
Standard elliptic-obovate, yellow, lined reddish-brown, tomentellous outside; wings nearly as long as the keel; keel 5.5–6 mm long, angular, with a narrow twisted beak sharply incurved at the tip.
Calyx 4–4.5 mm long, tomentellous; upper lobes broadly triangular-acuminate, 1.5–2 times as long as the tube.
Erect annual 30–65 cm tall, with slender ascending densely silvery appressed pubescent branches.
Pod sessile, 4.5–5 × 4 mm, ovoid-globose, silky pubescent, 2-seeded.
Seeds 2.5 mm across, oblique-cordiform.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.3 - 0.65
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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 kuiririensis world distribution map, present in Angola, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:488329-1
WFO ID wfo-0000210840
COL ID ZNNG
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Synonyms

Crotalaria kuiririensis

Lower taxons

Crotalaria kuiririensis subsp. mutica