Crotalaria tenuipedicellata Baker F.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Crotalaria

Characteristics

Racemes 2–10 cm long, 6–16-flowered, lax but uppermost flowers subumbelliform, also a few flowers developing in the axils below; bracts 1–1.5 mm long, linear to shortly linear-lanceolate; pedicels 5–7 mm long, slender, without bracteoles.
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Standard oblong-obovate, pale yellow lined reddish, thinly puberulous on upper part outside; wings markedly shorter than the keel; keel 8–9 mm long, angular, with a long narrow twisted beak strongly incurved at the tip.
Leaves 1-foliolate; leaflets 20–40 × 1–5 mm, linear-oblanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate-oblong, lowermost oblanceolate, thinly puberulous to minutely strigulose beneath; petiole 2–6 mm long; stipules 0.
Calyx 3–3.5 mm long, appressed puberulous; upper lobes broadly triangular, slightly acuminate, 1.5 times as long as the tube.
Erect annual, 0.5–1.2 m tall, branching above; branches thinly appressed puberulous.
Pod sessile, 4 × 3.5 mm, ovoid-globose, puberulous, 2-seeded.
Mature seeds not seen.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.5 - 1.2
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

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Usage

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Edible -
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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 tenuipedicellata world distribution map, present in Angola and Zambia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:488952-1
WFO ID wfo-0000210875
COL ID ZP6Y
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Crotalaria tenuipedicellata