Crotalaria ochroleuca G. Don

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Habit
Degraded miombo woodland on Kalahari sand
Nakatowya Village, Longe area, Kaoma Distr.
Mar 2021
Photo: Nick Wightman

Inflorescence
Degraded miombo woodland on Kalahari sand
Nakatowya Village, Longe area, Kaoma Distr.
Mar 2021
Photo: Nick Wightman

Flower
Degraded miombo woodland on Kalahari sand
Nakatowya Village, Longe area, Kaoma Distr.
Mar 2021
Photo: Nick Wightman

Pods
Degraded miombo woodland on Kalahari sand
Nakatowya Village, Longe area, Kaoma Distr, Kaoma Distr.
Mar 2021
Photo: Nick Wightman

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Status:	Native
Description:	Erect annual or short-lived perennial herb, up to 2.5 m. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets linear to linear-lanceolate with appressed hairs on the under surface. Flowers in long laxly-flowered racemes, pale yellow-cream, veined with maroon. The keel with a long projecting beak. Pod broadly cylindric with short appressed hairs.
Type location:	São Tomé
Notes:	ZUMBA (Nsenga): Used as ndiyo; dried, sieved and cooked with groundnuts
Derivation of specific name:	ochroleuca: yellowish-white
Habitat:	In damp grass, rivers, floodplain, vleis and road sides. Occasionally as a weed of cultivation.
Altitude range:	Up to 1750 m
Flowering time:	Mar - Apr
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Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca):	B,N,W,C,E,S
Zambian distribution (Provinces):	Cb,N,Mc,E,C,S,W
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Content last updated:	Thursday 6 May 2021
Literature:	Baumann, G. (2005). Photographic Guide to Wildflowers of Malawi Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi Pages 32 - 33. (Includes a picture). 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 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) Pages 137 - 139. (Includes a picture). Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 63.

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