Crotalaria pallidicaulis Harms

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On quartz gravel; roadside
Lusaka SE, Kanyanja
Feb 1996
Photo: Mike Bingham

Photo: Mark Hyde
Mbizi Game Park

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Synonyms:	Crotalaria athroophylla I. Verd. Crotalaria multicolor Merxm.
Common names:	Miombo rattlepod (English)
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Status:	Native
Description:	Shrub 1‒3(4) m tall, with hairy, sometimes glabrescent branches. Leaves often with short axillary shoots bearing a cluster of smaller leaves, stipules absent; petiole 2-4 times as long as the terminal leaflet. Racemes with usually numerous laxly arranged flowers.
Type location:	Tanzania
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Habitat:	Miombo and other woodland types, rocky outcrops and gravelly slopes; around termite mounds
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Flowering time:	Jan - Apr
Worldwide distribution:	DRC (Katanga), Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana.
FZ divisions:	MS
Growth form(s):	Tree, shrub over 2 m.
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Images last updated:	Sunday 15 April 2018
Literature:	Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 293. (Includes a picture). Coates Palgrave, K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002). Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa Pages 366 - 367. Coates Palgrave, M. (1989). Guide to the trees and shrubs of the Mukuvisi Woodlands ?publisher. Page 37. Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 218. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 244. 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 93 - 94. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 59. Polhill, R.M. (2003). Flora Zambesiaca 3(7) Pages 93 - 94. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 63. Steedman, E.C. (1933). Some Trees, Shrubs and Lianes of Southern Rhodesia. Page 23. as Crotalaria arthroophylla White, F. (1962). Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia Oxford Univ. Press. Page 147. as C. arthroophylla

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