Crotalaria parvula
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Habit
Seepage grassland over rock pavement
Tondwa GMA, Nsama District
Apr 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman
Flower
Seepage grassland over rock pavement
Tondwa GMA, Nsama District
Apr 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman
Flower
Seepage grassland over rock pavement
Tondwa GMA, Nsama District
Apr 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman
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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. |
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Angola |
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| Derivation of specific name: | parvula: Latin for very small |
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| Flowering time: | Mar - Apr(-May) |
| Worldwide distribution: | Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Angola, DRC, Burundi, Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania |
| Growth form(s): | Annual. |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Martins, E.S. et al. (2003). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(7) Pages 223 - 224. |
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Crotalaria parvula
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