Crotalaria quarrei Baker F.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Crotalaria

Characteristics

Leaves mostly 3-foliolate, the uppermost often 1-foliolate; leaflets 5–16 × 3–8 mm, oblanceolate-elliptic to obovate, subacute to rounded at the apex, thinly pilose above, more densely so beneath; petiole 2–8 mm long; stipules 0.
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Standard obovate, bright yellow, with red marks at the base inside, reddish lined and tomentellous outside; wings a little shorter than the keel; keel 3.5–4.5 mm long, angular, with a narrow twisted beak.
Flowers 6–20 in sessile to pedunculate heads or racemes, sometimes with a few flowers in the axils below; bracts 1–3 mm long, linear; pedicel 1.5–2.5 mm long, without obvious bracteoles.
Small annual 5–10 cm tall, with numerous decumbent to shortly ascending branches from the base; stem slender, densely appressed pubescent.
Calyx 2.5–3 mm long, densely appressed pubescent; upper lobes triangular, 1–2 times as long as the tube.
Pod sessile, 4–5 × 3–3.5 mm, ovoid-globose, pubescent, 12–16-seeded.
Seeds 1 mm long, rounded-cordiform, smooth.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
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Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.05 - 0.1
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Light -
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

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Edible -
Therapeutic use -
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 21 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 23
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment soaking
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Distribution

Crotalaria quarrei world distribution map, present in Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Chad, Tanzania, United Republic of, and Zambia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:488750-1
WFO ID wfo-0000210836
COL ID ZNZW
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Crotalaria quarrei

Lower taxons

Crotalaria quarrei var. quarrei