Crotalaria lanceolata E. Mey.
subsp. lanceolata

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Crotalaria lanceolata subsp. lanceolata

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On ridge above Cavalo, Sanjunjira, Mt Gorongosa, Mozambique.

Crotalaria lanceolata subsp. lanceolata

Photo: Bart Wursten
On ridge above Cavalo, Sanjunjira, Mt Gorongosa, Mozambique.

Crotalaria lanceolata subsp. lanceolata

Photo: Bart Wursten
On ridge above Cavalo, Sanjunjira, Mt Gorongosa, Mozambique.

Crotalaria lanceolata subsp. lanceolata

Photo: Bart Wursten
On ridge above Cavalo, Sanjunjira, Mt Gorongosa, Mozambique.

Crotalaria lanceolata subsp. lanceolata

Photo: Bart Wursten
Chironde Camp, Coutada 12, Cheringoma

Crotalaria lanceolata subsp. lanceolata

Photo: Bart Wursten
Chironde Camp, Coutada 12, Cheringoma

Crotalaria lanceolata subsp. lanceolata

Photo: Bart Wursten
Chironde Camp, Coutada 12, Cheringoma

Crotalaria lanceolata subsp. lanceolata

Photo: Bart Wursten
Chironde Camp, Coutada 12, Cheringoma

Crotalaria lanceolata subsp. lanceolata

Photo: Bart Wursten
Chironde Camp, Coutada 12, Cheringoma

Crotalaria lanceolata subsp. lanceolata

Photo: Bart Wursten
Chironde Camp, Coutada 12, Cheringoma

Crotalaria lanceolata subsp. lanceolata

Photo: Bart Wursten
Bela Vista hotel site, Northwestern Gorongosa National Park.

Crotalaria lanceolata subsp. lanceolata

Photo: Bart Wursten
Bela Vista hotel site, Northwestern Gorongosa National Park.

Crotalaria lanceolata subsp. lanceolata

Photo: Bart Wursten
Bela Vista hotel site, Northwestern Gorongosa National Park.

Crotalaria lanceolata subsp. lanceolata

Photo: Bart Wursten
Bela Vista hotel site, Northwestern Gorongosa National Park.

Crotalaria lanceolata subsp. lanceolata

Photo: Bart Wursten
Bela Vista hotel site, Northwestern Gorongosa National Park.

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Synonyms: Crotalaria mossambicensis Klotzsch
Common names:
Frequency:
Status: Native
Description:
Erect annual or short-lived perennial herb, up to 1.7 m tall. Stems with some ascending branches, ribbed, appressed hairy, particularly when young. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, usually up to c. 11 cm long, thinly appressed puberulous below. Flowers in long many-flowered racemes. Standard yellow with reddish-purple veining on the outside. Keel shallowly rounded at the middle with a short incurved beak, shorter than the wings. Pod subsessile, cylindrical, up to 3.8 × 0.6 cm, sometimes, curved at the tip, appressed puberulous.
Notes:
Derivation of specific name: lanceolata: lanceolate or spear-shaped, referring to the shape of the leaflets.
Habitat: In open woodland, grassland and disturbed places, sometimes in moist places.
Altitude range: 0 - 1450 m
Flowering time:
Worldwide distribution: Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa as far as the Eastern Cape, and Madagascar.
Mozambique distribution: N,Z,MS,GI,M
Growth form(s):
Endemic status:
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Content last updated: Thursday 28 December 2017
Literature:

Bandeira, S., Bolnick, D. & Barbosa, F. (2007). Wild Flowers of Southern Mozambique Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique Page 90. As Crotalaria lanceolata (Includes a picture).

Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 17.

Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 218.

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 140 - 141.

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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Mozambique: Species information: Crotalaria lanceolata subsp. lanceolata.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=127970, retrieved 29 March 2024

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