Crotalaria involutifolia Polhill
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Mutinondo Wilderness Area
Mar 2005
Photo: Mike Bingham
Mutinondo Wilderness Area
Mar 2013
Photo: Lari Merret
Mutinondo Wilderness Area
Mar 2013
Photo: Lari Merret
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Common names:
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Frequency:
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Status:
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Native |
Description:
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Delicate ascending annual, up to 10‒50 cm tall; stem very slender, laxly branched, sparsely appressed puberulous, glabrescent. Leaves sessile, simple, blade linear to linear-oblanceolate, with the margins usually at least partially inrolled. Racemes with 2‒8 widely spaced flowers on the ± filiform rhachis. |
Type location:
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Tanzania, Ufipa |
Notes:
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Derivation of specific name:
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Zambia, Cameroon, DRC (Katanga), southern Tanzania |
Habitat:
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Damp places in marshes, dambos and rock hollows. |
Altitude range: |
1200 - 1650 m |
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Worldwide distribution:
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Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca):
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N,W |
Zambian distribution (Provinces):
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Nw,N,Mc,C |
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Endemic status:
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Red data list status:
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Lower Risk - least concern |
Insects associated with this species:
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Spot characters:
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Content last updated: |
Thursday 21 September 2017 |
Literature:
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Martins, E.S. et al. (2003). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(7) Page 154.
Polhill, R.M. (2003). Flora Zambesiaca 3(7) Page 154.
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Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-22
Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A.
(2022).
Flora of Zambia: Species information: Crotalaria involutifolia. https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=197960, retrieved 11 August 2022
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