Home | > | List of families | > | Fabaceae subfamily Papilionoideae | > | Crotalaria | > | lachnophora |
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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Bushy herb or shrub, 1‒3 m tall, with numerous hairy branches. Leaves 3-foliolate. leaflets silky pubescent at least beneath, petiole usually shorter than leaflets; stipules mostly 5‒25 mm long, oblong-falcate, caudate, very unequal-sided. Racemes terminal, laxly few‒many-flowered. Calyx 1.1‒1.5 cm long, brownish spreading hairy, upper and lateral lobes coherent, narrowly triangular, about twice as long as the tube. Standard subcircular, clear yellow, fading orange-red; keel abruptly rounded in the lower half, with a relatively short straight blunt beak, woolly towards the upper edge. Pod subsessile, broadly cylindric, with a dense shaggy coat of hairs. |
Notes: | See Crotalaria lachnocarpoides for comparison. |
Derivation of specific name: | lachno-: woolly; lachnophora: wool-bearing |
Habitat: | Miombo woodland, similar woodland types, grassland. |
Altitude range: (metres) | 750 - 1650 m |
Flowering time: | Feb - Jun |
Worldwide distribution: | Widespread in Tropical Africa. |
Zimbabwe distribution: | N,C,E,S |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 155. Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 292. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 17. Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 218. 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) Page 108. Polhill, R.M. (2003). Flora Zambesiaca 3(7) Page 108. |
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