Crotalaria densicephala Welw. ex Baker

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Habit
Degraded miombo woodland on Kalahari sand
Walubita Village, Namaloba, Kaoma Distr.
Mar 2021
Photo: Nick Wightman

Flowers
Degraded miombo woodland on Kalahari sand
Walubita Village, Namaloba, Kaoma Distr.
Mar 2021
Photo: Nick Wightman

Pods
Degraded miombo woodland on Kalahari sand
Walubita Village, Namaloba, Kaoma Distr.
Mar 2021
Photo: Nick Wightman

Habit
Ruderal area around village households
Luampa area, Luampa District
Apr 2023
Photo: Nick Wightman

Flowers
Ruderal area around village households
Luampa area, Luampa District
Apr 2023
Photo: Nick Wightman

Flowers and Pods
Ruderal area around village households
Luampa area, Luampa District
Apr 2023
Photo: Nick Wightman

Pods
Ruderal area around village households
Luampa area, Luampa District
Apr 2023
Photo: Nick Wightman

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Synonyms:	Crotalaria dumetorum Baker Crotalaria lachnoclada Harms Crotalaria vasculosa sensu Hutchinson
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Status:	Native
Description:	Bushy herb up to 1.2 m tall but sometimes flowering when no more than 20 cm tall, densely and coarsely hairy; leaves shortly petiolate, 3-foliolate, uppermost sometimes 1-foliolate; leaflets 3-8 x 1.2-4.5 cm, elliptic oblong to obovate, densely hairy on both surfaces or only beneath, stipules 1.5-5 mm long; racemes dense, few-many-flowered; bracts 2-4 mm long, linear to linear-lanceolate, bracteoles on the short pedicels, small; calyx 7-9 mm long, pilose on the tube but the lobes often subglabrous except for the densely ciliate margins, lobes attenuate, 2.5-4 times as long as tube; standard elliptic to elliptic-obovate, yellow, glabrous outside; wings mostly a little shorter than the keel; keel 7.5-10 mm long, subcircular with a rather small narrow beak, not strongly crested, lanate-ciliate but not hairy on lateral surfaces; pod shortly stipitae, 1.3-2 cm long, oblong-ellipsoid to oblong-obovoid, densely and irregularly covered with long spreading hairs, 4-6-seeded; seeds c. 6 mm long, obliquely cordiform, smooth or granulate, ochre coloured.
Type location:	Angola
Notes:
Derivation of specific name:	densicephala: densely headed, referring to the compact terminal inflorescences
Habitat:	Miombo woodlands, sometimes in thickets or damp places
Altitude range:	1100 - 1400 m
Flowering time:	Mar - Apr
Worldwide distribution:	Angola, DRC (Katanga) and Zambia
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca):	W,C
Zambian distribution (Provinces):	Nw,Cb,C
Growth form(s):	Perennial.
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Content last updated:	Tuesday 25 July 2023
Literature:	Martins, E.S. et al. (2003). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(7) Pages 110 - 111.

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