Crotalaria involutifolia
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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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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
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: |
Tanzania, Ufipa |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | Zambia, Cameroon, DRC (Katanga), southern Tanzania |
| Habitat: | Damp places in marshes, dambos and rock hollows. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 1200 - 1650 m |
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| FZ divisions: | N,W |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | Nw,N,Mc,C |
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| Red data list status: | Lower Risk - least concern |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Thursday 21 September 2017 |
| Literature: |
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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