Crotalaria cleomifolia Welw. ex Baker

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Crotalaria cleomifolia

Picture: Bart Wursten
Nhahomba area, Chimanimani National Reserve

Crotalaria cleomifolia

Picture: Bart Wursten
Nhahomba area, Chimanimani National Reserve

Crotalaria cleomifolia

Picture: Bart Wursten
Nhahomba area, Chimanimani National Reserve

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Status: Native
Description:
Shrubby perennial 1–4.5 m tall; branches variously velvety to spreading yellowish hairy. Leaves 3–5-foliolate; leaflets more or less narrowly elliptic, 4–12 cm long, discolorous, dark green above, greyish and usually hairy beneath; petiole shorter than the leaflets; stipules linear-caudate, 1–5 mm long. Racemes mostly 10–30 cm long, many flowered, on short peduncles; bracts linear-caudate, 2–10 mm long. Calyx 6–7 mm long, deflexed against the pedicel; lobes narrowly triangular, as long as the tube or longer. Standard elliptic, bright yellow, usually veined reddish-brown; wings markedly shorter than the keel; keel 1.2–1.7 cm long, rather strongly rounded about the middle, with a narrow beak incurved towards the tip. Pod with a short stipe, narrowly cylindric, 3.5–6 cm long, sometimes shortly curved upwards at the tip, sparsely velvety to densely spreading hairy, 30–40-seeded.
Type location:
Angola, Cuanza Norte
Notes:
Derivation of specific name: cleomifolia: with leaves like a Cleome; referring to the palmately 3-5-foliolate leaves, unusual for the genus.
Habitat: Along forest margins and streams.
Altitude range: 750 - 1650 m
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Worldwide distribution: Widespread in tropical Africa.
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): N,W,E
Zambian distribution (Provinces): Cb,N,Mc,E
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Content last updated: Monday 10 February 2020
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 290. (Includes a picture).

Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 217.

Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 244.

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 46.

Martins, E.S. et al. (2003). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(7) Pages 144 - 146. (Includes a picture).

Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 96.

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Crotalaria cleomifolia
African Plant Database: Crotalaria cleomifolia
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JSTOR Plant Science: Crotalaria cleomifolia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Crotalaria cleomifolia
Plants of the World Online: Crotalaria cleomifolia
Tropicos: Crotalaria cleomifolia
Wikipedia: Crotalaria cleomifolia


Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Species information: Crotalaria cleomifolia.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=127660, retrieved 28 March 2024

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