Crotalaria subtilis Polhill

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Crotalaria

Characteristics

Standard elliptic to subcircular, yellow lined reddish-brown, uniformly subdensely pilose outside; wings exceeding the keel; keel 5–6 mm long, angular, with a narrow twisted beak slightly incurved at the tip.
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Racemes 3–10 cm long, laxly 8–30-flowered; bracts leaf-like, 5–9 mm long, lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed to a slight stalk, mostly exceeding the flowers and fruits; bracteoles 0.
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 5–15 × 1–4 mm, linear-oblanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, mostly obtuse, thinly pilose on both surfaces; petiole 1–5 mm long; stipules 0.
Calyx 3.5–4.5 mm long, pilose; lobes narrowly triangular-lanceolate, 2.5–3 times as long as the tube.
Erect annual 10–40 cm tall; stem slender, sometimes with ascending branches, densely pilose.
Pod sessile, 4 mm long, globose-ellipsoid, 2-seeded (ovules 4–6).
Seeds 1.5 mm long, ± cordiform, smooth.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.1 - 0.4
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Light -
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Usage

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Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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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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Distribution

Crotalaria subtilis world distribution map, present in Angola and Zambia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:907459-1
WFO ID wfo-0000210802
COL ID ZP6B
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Crotalaria subtilis