Crotalaria pumila

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Genus Crotalaria

Herbs or shrubs . Leaf simple or palmately trifoliolate or rarely up to 7-foliolate, generally stipulate . Inflorescence a raceme , terminal or leaf opposed. Bracts and bracteoles small or absent. Calyx teeth linear , lanceolate, subequal , free or the upper 2 fused, forming a lip. Vexillum orbicular , rarely ovate . Wing shorter than the standard . Keel incurved , beaked . Stamens monadelphous , anthers dimorphic . Ovary generally sessile, 2-many ovuled, style incurved, bearded above, stigma small, rarely bilobed . Fruit sessile or stipitate , globose or linear-oblong, turgid or inflated , 2-many seeded, continuous within.

About 550 species, distributed throughout the tropics and subtropics, but most numerous in Tropical Africa.[1]

Physical Description

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Annual

Growth

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Moisture: Drought Tolerance: High

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b, 11. (map)

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Crotalaria chiapensis Brandegee • Crotalaria littoralis Kunth • Crotalaria lupulina Kunth • Crotalaria puberula Hook. F. • Crotalaria tepicana Hook. & Arn. • Crotalaria triantha Dc.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Climbing : Not climbing, Conservation Status: Not Threatened, Habit: Herb, Lifespan: Annual

Similar Species

Members of the genus Crotalaria

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 56 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

C. agatiflora (Canary Bird Bush) · C. alata (Rattlebox) · C. aridicola (Chillagoe Horse Poison) · C. assamica (Indian Rattlebox) · C. avonensis (Avon Park Harebells) · C. berteriana (Berteron's Rattlebox) · C. berteroana (Cascavelle Jaune) · C. biflora (Twoflower Rattlebox) · C. brevidens (Ethiopian Rattlebox) · C. breviflora (Shortflower Rattlebox) · C. capensis (Cape Rattle Pod) · C. crispata (Kimberley Horsepoison) · C. cunninghamii (Birdflower) · C. goreensis (Gambia Pea) · C. incana (Barraquito) · C. incana incana (Barraquito) · C. juncea (Cascavelle) · C. laburnifolia (Birdflower) · C. laburnifolia laburnifolia (Birdflower) · C. lanceolata (Lance-Leaf Rattle-Box) · C. lanceolata lanceolata (Lanceleaf Crotalaria) · C. longirostrata (Chipil) · C. lotifolia (Cascabelillo Axilar) · C. maypurensis (Maruga) · C. medicaginea (Trefoil Rattlepod) · C. medicaginea var. herniarioides (Trefoil Rattlepod) · C. micans (Caracas Rattlebox) · C. mitchellii (Yellow Rattlepod) · C. mitchellii mitchellii (Yellow Rattlepod) · C. mysorensis (Rattlebox) · C. nitens (Cascabeles) · C. novae-hollandiae (New Holland Rattlepod) · C. ochroleuca (Slender Leaf Rattlebox) · C. pallida (Rattlebox) · C. pallida var. obovata (Rattlebox) · C. paulina (Rattlebox) · C. pilosa (Hairy Rattlebox) · C. pumila (Chipilincillo) · C. purshii (Purshs Rattlebox) · C. quinquefolia (Sen) · C. retusa (Cachimbito) · C. retusa var. tunguensis (Cachimbito) · C. rotundifolia (Prostrate Rattle-Box) · C. sagittalis (Arrow Crotalaria) · C. saltiana (African Rattlebox) · C. sessiliflora (Rattlebox) · C. spectabilis (Cascavelle Jaune) · C. spectabilis parvibracteata (Cascavelle Jaune) · C. spectabilis spectabilis (Showy Crotalaria) · C. stipularia (Cascabelillo) · C. trichotoma (Cascavelle Trois Feuilles) · C. uncinella (Ambrevatte Marronne) · C. verrucosa (Blue Rattle-Box) · C. virgulata (Rattlebox) · C. virgulata virgulata (Thicket Rattlebox) · C. vitellina (Cohetillo)

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Further Reading

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• A provisional list of the indigenous and naturalized flowering plants of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica, Aston W. Gardner & Co., 1893. url .
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Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 21, 2007:

• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
• Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad, Banco Nacional de Germoplasma Vegetal, México
• Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad, Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México
• Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Virtual Herbarium Darwin Core format
• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
• , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
• International Plant Genetic Resources Institute(IPGRI), The System-wide Information Network for Genetic Resources
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• National Herbarium of New South Wales, NSW herbarium collection
• School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2650880
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-11842
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13638172
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:488737-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 12370
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 26575
• MoBot NameID: 13029454
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDFAB160A0
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: CRPU4
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 33140

Footnotes

1. "Crotalaria". in Flora of Pakistan Page 40.. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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