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Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms:

1. Crotalaria fulva Roxb.
2. Crotalaria grandis Baker

Notes:

Name Status: Provisionally Accepted Name. Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Tozzi A.M., Flores A.S., Jun-2001

Place of publication: Prodr. 2:127. 1825

Name verified on 12-Sep-2005 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 12-Sep-2005

Physical Description

Family Fabaceae:

The Fabaceae are herbs, vines, shrubs, trees, and lianas found in both temperate and tropical areas. They comprise one of the largest families of flowering plants, numbering 630 genera and 18,000 species. The leaves are stipulate, nearly always alternate, and range from bipinnately or palmately compound to simple. The petiole base is commonly enlarged into a pulvinus that commonly functions in orientation of the leaves (sometimes very responsively, as in the sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica). The flowers are usually bisexual, actinomorphic to zygomorphic, slightly to strongly perigynous, and commonly in racemes, spikes, or heads. The perianth commonly consists of a calyx and corolla of 5 segments each. The androecium consists of commonly 1- many stamens (most commonly 10), distinct or variously united, sometimes some of them reduced to staminodes. The pistil is simple, often stipitate, comprising a single style and stigma, and a superior ovary with one locule containing 2-many marginal ovules. The fruit is usually a legume, sometimes a samara, loment, follicle, indehiscent pod, achene, drupe, or berry. The seeds often have a hard coat with hourglass-shaped cells, and sometimes bear a u-shaped line called a pleurogram. [Carr]

Subfamily Faboideae:

Mostly herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves pinnate or palmate to trifoliolate or apparently simple. Corolla usually, showy, zygomorphic, the petals imbricate, posterior (upper or banner) petal outermost in bud. Stamens 10 or 9 + 1 (diadelphous), not showy. Pollen released in monads. Seeds with u-shaped line (pleurogram) lacking. [Carr]

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]

Habit: Herb, Shrub • Climbing: Not Climbing

Distribution

Range and Population

Native: Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Orissa.

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Similar Species

Members of the genus Crotalaria:

There are approximately 1,331 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them: C. cunninghamii sturtii · C. kuiririensis mutica · C. abbreviata · C. abdal-kuriensis · C. abscondita · C. abyssinica · C. subcapitata subsp. oreadum · C. acicularis · C. aculeata · C. aculeata aculeata · C. aculeata claessensii · C. aculeata subsp. claessensii · C. arcuata · C. acutiflora var. grandiflora · C. acutifolia · C. adamii · C. adamsonii · C. adenocarpoides · C. adolfi · C. aegyptiaca · C. aegyptica · C. africana · C. afrocentralis · C. afzelii · C. agatiflora (Canary Bird Bush) · C. agatiflora agatiflora · C. agatiflora engleri · C. agatiflora erlangeri · C. agatiflora imperialis · C. agatiflora subsp. agatiflora · C. agatiflora vaginifera · C. aidiostipulata · C. akoensis · C. alata (Rattlebox) · C. alatipes · C. alba var. alba · C. albicaulis · C. albida · C. albida var. gengmanensis · C. alemanniana · C. alexanderi · C. alexandri · C. allenii · C. allophylla · C. alticola · C. altissima · C. amoena · C. amplexicaulis · C. anagyroides var. angustifolia · C. anagyroides var. minor · C. andringitrensis · C. andromedifolia · C. androyensis · C. angulata · C. angulicaulis · C. angustifolia · C. anisophylla · C. ankaizinensis · C. ankaratrana · C. annamensis · C. annua · C. anomala · C. anthyllopsis · C. antunesii · C. apiculata · C. arcuata · C. arenaria · C. argentea · C. argenteotomentosa · C. argenteotomentosa argenteotomentosa · C. argenteotomentosa dolosa · C. argenteotomentosa subsp. dolosa · C. argyraea · C. argyrolobioides · C. arida · C. aridicola · C. aridicola aridicola · C. aridicola densifolia · C. aridicola glabrata · C. aridicola subsp. densifolia · C. aridicola subsp. glabrata · C. arushae · C. arvensis · C. asarifolia · C. asarine · C. aspalathoides · C. assamica (Indian Rattlebox) · C. assamica var. philippinensis · C. assergens · C. assurgens · C. onobrychis · C. athroophylla · C. atrorubens · C. atusia · C. aurea · C. auriculata · C. avonensis (Avon Park Harebells) · C. awasensis · C. axillaris · C. axilliflora

Bibliography

• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica. (F Jam)
• Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. 1976–. Flores des Mascareignes. (F Mascar)
• Du Puy, D. J. et al. 2002. The Leguminosae of Madagascar. (Leg Madag)
• Kumar, S & P. V. Sane. 2003. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist. (Leg SAsia)
• Lock, J. M. & C. S. Ford. 2004. Legumes of Malesia: a checklist. (Leg Malesia)
• Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic. (F TamilC)
• Polhill, R. M. 1982. Crotalaria in Africa and Madagascar. (Crot Afr Madag) 374.
• Saldanha, C. J. & D. H. Nicolson. 1976. Flora of Hassan district. (F Hassan)
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
• Verdcourt, B. 1979. A manual of New Guinea legumes. (Leg NewGuin)

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Notes

Contributors:

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 21, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.
• ILDIS World Database of LegumesNov 10, 2005.
• USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (May 04, 2008)

Data Sources:

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 21, 2007:

• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers:

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13639812
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:487866-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 400484

Footnotes:

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