Crotalaria parvula Welw. ex Baker

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Crotalaria parvula

Habit
Seepage grassland over rock pavement
Tondwa GMA, Nsama District
Apr 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman

Crotalaria parvula

Flower
Seepage grassland over rock pavement
Tondwa GMA, Nsama District
Apr 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman

Crotalaria parvula

Flower
Seepage grassland over rock pavement
Tondwa GMA, Nsama District
Apr 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman

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Frequency: Local to locally common
Status: Native
Description:
Annual, with slender erect stem, 5–40 cm tall, developing numerous ascending or spreading stems from the base, often also short flowering branches at the top; stem rather densely appressed puberulous. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 5–12 × 1.5–4 mm, linear-oblanceolate to oblanceolate, rounded to truncate or retuse, appressed puberulous beneath; petiole 2–5 mm long; stipules 0. Racemes or heads sessile, dense, 1–3(6 in fruit) cm long, many-flowered; bracts 1–1.5 mm long, linear; pedicel 1–2 mm long, sometimes with minute bracteoles. Calyx 2–3 mm long, ± densely appressed puberulous; upper lobes narrowly attenuate-triangular, 2–3 times as long as the tube. Standard oblong-obovate, pale yellow, reddish marked basally inside, red lined outside and medially puberulous to tomentellous, glabrous near the edges; wings shorter than the keel; keel 3–4 mm long, angular, with a narrow twisted beak. Pod sessile, 2–3.5 mm long, ovoid-globose, puberulous, 2-seeded. Seeds 1–1.5 mm long, ovate-cordiform, smooth, with a prominent aril.
Type location:
Angola
Notes:
Derivation of specific name: parvula: Latin for very small
Habitat: Grassland
Altitude range:
Flowering time:Mar - Apr(-May)
Worldwide distribution: Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Angola, DRC, Burundi, Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): N,W
Zambian distribution (Provinces): Cb,N
Growth form(s): Annual.
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Content last updated: Tuesday 23 July 2024
Literature:

Martins, E.S. et al. (2003). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(7) Pages 223 - 224.

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Crotalaria parvula
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Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Nicholas Wightman, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wightman, N., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Species information: Crotalaria parvula.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=198230, retrieved 13 October 2024

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