Crotalaria vanmeelii
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Habit
Miombo woodland
Kaputa GMA, Nsama District
May 2023
Photo: Nick Wightman
Leaf
Miombo woodland
Kaputa GMA, Nsama District
May 2023
Photo: Nick Wightman
Flower
Miombo woodland
Kaputa GMA, Nsama District
May 2023
Photo: Nick Wightman
Flower
Miombo woodland
Kaputa GMA, Nsama District
May 2023
Photo: Nick Wightman
Pod
Miombo woodland
Kaputa GMA, Nsama District
May 2023
Photo: Nick Wightman
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| Common names: | |
| Frequency: | Occasional to local |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Erect laxly branched graceful annual, 30–80 cm tall; stem slender, thinly pubescent with short appressed or rather spreading hairs. Leaves subsessile, simple; blade up to 3–6 × 0.2–0.6 cm, linear to lanceolate-oblong, thinly appressed pubescent beneath; stipules up to 1.5 mm long, setaceous. Racemes laxly 3–12-flowered; bracts 1–3 mm long, setaceous; bracteoles at the top of the pedicel, similar. Calyx 4–7 mm long, appressed or rather spreading pubescent; lobes subulate, 2–3 times as long as the tube. Standard elliptic, yellow, veined brown, turning purplish overall, pubescent outside; wings much shorter than the keel; keel 8.5–12 mm long, bent at right angles in the lower third, with a long straight narrow beak. Pod sessile, 10–15 × 3–3.5 mm, narrowly cylindrical, thinly pubescent, up to 22-seeded. Seeds 1.5–2 mm long, cordiform, rugulose, light brown. |
| Type location: |
Zambia |
| Notes: | Known only from around the southern end of Lake Tanganyika |
| Derivation of specific name: | vanmeelii: named after L. Van Meel, a Belgian botanist who collected the type specimen. |
| Habitat: | Open disturbed places on sandy soil |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 750 - 1500 m |
| Flowering time: | Mar - Apr(-May) |
| Worldwide distribution: | Zambia and Tanzania |
| FZ divisions: | N |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | N |
| Growth form(s): | Annual. |
| Endemic status: | Near Endemic |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Tuesday 13 May 2025 |
| Literature: |
Martins, E.S. et al. (2003). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(7) Pages 161 - 162. |
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