Crotalaria filicaulis Welw. ex Baker
var. filicaulis

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Crotalaria filicaulis var. filicaulis

Photo: Petra Ballings
Val D'Or

Crotalaria filicaulis var. filicaulis

Photo: Petra Ballings
Val D'Or

Crotalaria filicaulis var. filicaulis

Photo: Petra Ballings
Val D'Or

Crotalaria filicaulis var. filicaulis

Photo: Petra Ballings
Val D'Or

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Status: Native
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Erect, wiry annual, often with many ascending branches, 20-120 cm. Leaves 3-foliolate, sometimes 1-foliolate near the top of the stems; leaflets linear-oblanceolate with silvery appressed hairs beneath. Flowers yellow, marked red near the base, mostly in terminal, laxly-flowered racemes; standard broadly obovate, emarginate. Pods sessile, c. 5 × 4 mm, ovoid-spherical, finely velvety.
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Malawi distribution: N,C
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Literature:

Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 217. as Crotalaria filicaulis

Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 47.

Martins, E.S. et al. (2003). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(7) Pages 208 - 210. (Includes a picture).

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Flora of Mozambique: Crotalaria filicaulis var. filicaulis
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Flora of Zimbabwe: Crotalaria filicaulis var. filicaulis

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Crotalaria filicaulis
African Plant Database: Crotalaria filicaulis
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Crotalaria filicaulis
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IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Crotalaria filicaulis
JSTOR Plant Science: Crotalaria filicaulis
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Crotalaria filicaulis
Plants of the World Online: Crotalaria filicaulis
Tropicos: Crotalaria filicaulis
Wikipedia: Crotalaria filicaulis


Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Malawi: Species information: Crotalaria filicaulis var. filicaulis.
https://www.malawiflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=127750, retrieved 2 November 2024

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