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Crotalaria paraspartea Polhill

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Crotalaria

Characteristics

Leaves 1-foliolate; leaflets mostly 3–10.5 × 0.3–2.4 cm, elliptic at the base, varying to lanceolate and linear-lanceolate towards the branch tips, thinly appressed puberulous beneath; petioles mostly 3–6 mm long; stipules c. 0.5 mm long, triangular.
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Standard elliptic-obovate, yellow lined reddish-purple; wings much shorter than the keel; keel 7–8 mm long, strongly rounded, with a narrow slightly incurved beak.
Racemes mostly 8–18 cm long, laxly 6–12-flowered; bracts 1–2.5 mm long, linear-caudate; bracteoles at the base of the calyx, similar.
Pod 2–2.2 × 0.7 cm, subsessile, subcylindrical, appressed pubescent, glabrescent on the underside, up to c. 18-seeded.
Calyx 3.5–4 mm long, appressed pubescent; lobes triangular-acuminate, a little longer than the tube.
Erect annual up to c. 70 cm tall; branches ascending, the lower ones curved, crisped pubescent.
Mature seeds not seen.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.7
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Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
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Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

Uses -
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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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Crotalaria paraspartea world distribution map, present in Mozambique

Conservation status

Crotalaria paraspartea threat status: Endangered

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:899631-1
WFO ID wfo-0000210279
COL ID ZNW8
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Crotalaria paraspartea
WorldFloraDB 2024