Crotalaria lotoides Benth.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Crotalaria

Characteristics

Spreading or semi-decumbent perennial, with a number of densely subappressed pubescent to patently pilose stems to 15-50 cm long. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets obovate to subcircular, rounded to emarginate, mostly 8-20 x 8-18 mm; petioles shorter or longer than leaflets. Stipules subulate or linear, 2-5 mm long. Racemes lax, 1-3(-4)-flowered; bracts linear-lanceolate, 2-4 mm long; bracteoles curved-ascending from upper part of the pedicel, similar to bract. Calyx 7-9 mm long, thinly pilose; lobes attenuately lanceolate-triangular, 4-5 times as long as the tube. Standard elliptic, yellow, ± flushed reddish, medially puberulous outside; wings 0.6-0.7(-0.8) times as long as the keel; keel abruptly rounded in the lower half, with a practically straight beak, 8-11 mm long, lanate-pubescent along the upper margin. Legume subcylindrical, practically sessile, somewhat pointed, 2.4-3.6 cm long, pilose. Seeds oblique-cordiform, ±3 mm long, rugulose, pale yellow to brown.
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Standard elliptic, yellow, ± flushed reddish, medially puberulous outside; wings 0.6–0.7(0.8) times as long as the keel; keel 8–11 mm long, abruptly rounded in lower half, with a practically straight beak, lanate-pubescent along upper margin.
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 8–20 × 8–18 mm, obovate to subcircular, rounded to emarginate at apex, glabrous to thinly pilose above, pilose beneath; petioles shorter to longer than leaflets; stipules 2–5 mm long, subulate or linear.
Racemes laxly 1–3(4)-flowered, with peduncle much longer than the rhachis; bracts 2–4 mm long, linear-lanceolate; bracteoles curved-ascending from upper part of pedicel, similar to bract.
Spreading or semidecumbent perennial, with a number of densely subappressed pubescent to patently pilose stems to 15–50 cm long.
Calyx 7–9 mm long, thinly pilose; lobes attenuately lanceolate-triangular, 4–5 times as long as the tube.
Pod 2.4–3.6 cm long, subcylindrical, practically sessile, somewhat pointed, pilose.
Seeds 3 mm long, oblique-cordiform, rugulose, pale yellow to brown.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Environment

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Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture 5-6
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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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Images

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Distribution

Crotalaria lotoides world distribution map, present in Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:488413-1
WFO ID wfo-0000207285
COL ID ZNQR
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Synonyms

Crotalaria lotoides