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Crotalaria valida
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| Synonyms: |
Crotalaria lachnocarpoides Engl. subsp. valida Baker |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Erect perennial herb or suffrutex up to 1 m, with 1 to several simple or sparsely-branched tomentose stems. Leaves 3-foliolate, oblong-obovate, with silky hairs, particularly beneath. Upper leaves sometimes 1-foliolate. Flowers in lax terminal racemes, yellow, calyx and keel densely pubescent. Pods broadly cylindric, covered in velvet hairs. |
| Notes: | This species is very similar to Crotalaria lachnocarpoides, which lacks the silvery indumentum on the keel. |
| Derivation of specific name: | |
| Habitat: | In miombo woodland and montane grassland. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 750 - 2300 m |
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| Zimbabwe distribution: | C,E |
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| Endemic status: | |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Wednesday 22 March 2006 |
| 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 156. Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 219. 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 109. |
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