Crotalaria florida Welw. ex Baker
var. florida

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Crotalaria florida var. florida

Habit
Degraded Kalahari scrubland
Likwaka, Kaoma District
Jan 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman

Crotalaria florida var. florida

Flower
Degraded Kalahari scrubland
Likwaka, Kaoma District
Jan 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman

Crotalaria florida var. florida

Flower
Degraded Kalahari scrubland
Likwaka, Kaoma District
Jan 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman

Crotalaria florida var. florida

Flower
Degraded Kalahari scrubland
Likwaka, Kaoma District
Jan 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman

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Common names:
Frequency: Local
Status: Native
Description:
Subshrub, several-stemmed from a woody rootstock, (0.1)0.5–1.2 m tall, developing numerous shortish flowering branches above; branches ribbed, densely strigulose with frequently brown-based hairs, sometimes with slightly longer hairs interspersed. Leaves mostly 3-foliolate, uppermost sometimes 1-foliolate; leaflets 5–22 × 2–10 mm, oblong-oblanceolate to oblong-obovate or obovate, slightly coriaceous, densely strigulose or strigose-puberulent beneath; petiole 3–15(20) mm long, channelled; stipules 0. Primary racemes 2–5 cm long, ± laxly 6–10-flowered, with numerous shorter inflorescences developed on lateral branches and in the axils. Calyx 4–5 mm long, densely strigulose or strigose-puberulent; lobes acuminately or attenuately triangular, 0.8–2 times as long as the tube, often slightly involute, ± lanate inside (particularly the lower one). Standard elliptic-obovate to obovate, yellow, sometimes lined brown, glabrous or nearly so outside; wings as long as the keel or a little shorter; keel 8–11 mm long, angular, with a narrow twisted beak, slightly incurved at the tip. Pods subsessile, 6–8 × 4–6 mm, ovoid-globose, pointed, strigose-puberulent, 2-seeded. Seeds 2–2.5 mm long, rounded-cordiform, smooth, dark, with a small aril.
Type location:
Angola
Notes: Annual or Herbaceous Perennial
Derivation of specific name: florida: flowery or an abundance of flowers, a reference to the floriferous nature of the species.
Habitat: Miombo woodland
Altitude range: (metres) 1000 - 1500 m
Flowering time:Jan - Apr(-Sep)
Worldwide distribution: Angola, DRC, Zambia and Tanzania
National distribution: B,N,W,C
Zambian distribution (Provinces): Cb,N,C,W
Growth form(s):
Endemic status:
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Images last updated: Thursday 8 May 2025
Literature:

Martins, E.S. et al. (2003). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(7) Pages 193 - 195. (Includes a picture).


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External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Crotalaria florida
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Crotalaria florida
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Crotalaria florida
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Crotalaria florida
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Crotalaria florida
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Crotalaria florida
JSTOR Plant Science: Crotalaria florida
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Crotalaria florida
Plants of the World Online: Crotalaria florida
Tropicos: Crotalaria florida
Wikipedia: Crotalaria florida


Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Nicholas Wightman, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-25

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wightman, N., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2025). Flora of Zambia: Species information: Crotalaria florida var. florida.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=197900, retrieved 16 May 2025

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