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Crotalaria quangensis
quangensis
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Habit
Miombo woodland
Kanyali, Ikelenge District
Oct 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman
Leaf
Miombo woodland
Kanyali, Ikelenge District
Oct 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman
Inflorescence
Miombo woodland
Kanyali, Ikelenge District
Oct 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman
Flower
Miombo woodland
Kanyali, Ikelenge District
Oct 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman
Flower
Miombo woodland
Kanyali, Ikelenge District
Oct 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman
Pods
Miombo woodland
Kanyali, Ikelenge District
Oct 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman
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| Common names: | |
| Frequency: | Locally common |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Stems several to many, erect from a napiform and/or rhizomatous rootstock, 10–70(100) cm tall, simple to sparsely branched, finely ribbed, appressed puberulous to spreading pubescent. Leaves all or almost all 3-foliolate, uppermost occasionally reduced, 1-foliolate; leaflets 8–45 × 2–17 mm, mostly oblanceolate, but varying from linear-oblanceolate to elliptic-obovate, appressed puberulous to pubescent beneath; petiole 0.2–2.5 cm long, broadly channelled to distinctly winged; stipules 0. Racemes sessile to shortly pedunculate, 1–17 cm long, densely to laxly 15–40-flowered, sometimes with flowers or flowering branches from upper axils. Calyx 3–5 mm long, thinly to densely pubescent with appressed to rather irregularly arranged hairs; lobes narrowly triangular and slightly acuminate, rarely subulate with inrolled margins, (1)1.2–1.5(2) times as long as the tube. Standard elliptic or elliptic-obovate to subcircular, yellow, sometimes lined or flushed reddish, glabrous outside in the Flora Zambesiaca area; wings ± as long as the keel; keel 6–10 mm long, angular, with a narrow twisted beak. Pod sessile, 5–7 × 4–5.5 mm, ovoid-globular, appressed puberulous to glabrous except on upper side, 2–8-seeded. Seeds 2–2.5 mm long, rounded-cordiform, smooth, brown, exarillate. Var. quangensis separated on basis of stems 10-30 cm tall, mostly simple, with spreading or less often appressed hairs. Petiole 2-6(10) mm long; leaflets 8-22 x (1.5)3-7(10) mm. Racemes simple, 1-3 (7) cm long, dense to sublax, sometimes with flowers in the axils below. Keel 6-7 mm long. Pod 5-5.5 x 4-4 mm, 2-seeded. |
| Type location: |
Angola |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | |
| Habitat: | Characteristic of dambos on Kalahari Sands, occasionally burnt places in miombo woodland |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 1200 - 1400 m |
| Flowering time: | Sep - Oct |
| Worldwide distribution: | DRC, Angola and Zambia |
| National distribution: | W |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | Nw |
| Growth form(s): | Perennial. |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Wednesday 8 January 2025 |
| Literature: |
Martins, E.S. et al. (2003). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(7) Pages 196 - 197. Verdcourt, B. (2000). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(6) Pages 196 - 197. |
Other sources of information about Crotalaria quangensis var. quangensis:
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Crotalaria quangensisBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Crotalaria quangensis
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Crotalaria quangensis
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Crotalaria quangensis
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Crotalaria quangensis
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Crotalaria quangensis
JSTOR Plant Science: Crotalaria quangensis
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Crotalaria quangensis
Plants of the World Online: Crotalaria quangensis
Tropicos: Crotalaria quangensis
Wikipedia: Crotalaria quangensis
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