Crotalaria preladoi Baker F.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Crotalaria

Characteristics

Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 10–40 × 2–7 mm, variable in shape, narrowly oblong to linear-lanceolate or elliptic, thinly appressed pilose beneath; petioles 1–2 cm long; stipules 2–5 mm long, linear-lanceolate.
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Standard subcircular-obovate, white(?), lined reddish-purple; wings as long as the keel; keel c. 5 mm long, rounded, with a short slightly incurved beak.
Racemes leaf-opposed, laxly 5–8(?–many)-flowered; bracts up to 2 mm long, linear; bracteoles inserted at the base of the calyx, c. 1 mm long.
Calyx 4–5 mm long, thinly appressed pilose; lobes acuminately triangular, somewhat longer than the tube.
Annual, with weak slender thinly appressed pilose branches.
Pod sessile, 9–10 × 6 mm, ovoid-ellipsoid, pubescent.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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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 preladoi world distribution map, present in Mozambique

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:488689-1
WFO ID wfo-0000210217
COL ID 6BJCN
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Synonyms

Crotalaria preladoi