Home | > | List of families | > | Fabaceae subfamily Papilionoideae | > | Crotalaria | > | filicaulis |
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Status: | Native |
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Erect, wiry annual, often with many ascending branches, 20-120 cm. Leaves 3-foliolate, sometimes 1-foliolate near the top of the stems; leaflets linear-oblanceolate with silvery appressed hairs beneath. Flowers yellow, marked red near the base, mostly in terminal, laxly-flowered racemes; standard broadly obovate, emarginate. Pods sessile, c. 5 × 4 mm, ovoid-spherical, finely velvety. |
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Habitat: | In sandy or gravelly soils in miombo woodland. |
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Mozambique distribution: | N |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Content last updated: | Wednesday 14 April 2010 |
Literature: |
Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 217. as Crotalaria filicaulis Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 47. Martins, E.S. et al. (2003). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(7) Pages 208 - 210. (Includes a picture). |
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