Crotalaria pudica Polhill

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Crotalaria

Characteristics

Standard obovate, yellow lined reddish-brown, densely puberulous over upper two-thirds outside; wings ± as long as the keel; keel 5–6 mm long, angular, with a straight twisted beak.
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Racemes 2–4 cm long, subdensely many-flowered; bracts 2–4 mm long, linear-lanceolate, 0.7–1.2 times as long as the pedicel; bracteoles on the pedicel, 1.5–2 mm long.
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 8–15 × 2–5 mm, oblanceolate, rather densely appressed puberulous beneath; petiole 2–7 mm long, broadly grooved; stipules 0.
Stems numerous, ascending from a small woody rootstock, 15–30 cm tall, slender, slightly ribbed, strigulose-puberulous with brown-based hairs.
Calyx 3–4 mm long, tomentellous; lobes triangular, 1.2–1.5 times as long as the tube.
Ovary hairy, 2-ovulate.
Pod unknown.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.15 - 0.3
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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 pudica world distribution map, present in Malawi and Tanzania, United Republic of

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:899639-1
WFO ID wfo-0000210895
COL ID ZNZF
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Crotalaria pudica