Crotalaria natalitiaMeisn. [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Wilczek R., 1952
Related name
Crotalaria natalitia
Crotalaria pseudonatalitia
Crotalaria natalensis n. sp.
Crotalaria rhodesiae
Crotalaria gymnocalyx
Crotalaria prittwitzii
Flora
Entry for CROTALARIA Natalitia Meisn. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
CROTALARIA NatalitiaMeisn. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Lond. Journ. 2. p. 67;—Benth. l. c. p. 590.
Information
shrubby, with angular, appressedly pubescent branches; stipules narrow-lanceolate, petiolulate, leafy; leaflets cuneate-oblong, obtuse or mucronulate, minutely pubescent beneath; racemes terminal, few-flowered; calyx nearly glabrous, its teeth scarcely as long as the wide tube; carina woolly on the upper edge; legume shortly stipitate, glabrous. Shrubby, much branched, glabrescent except the younger branches and peduncles. Petioles variable, 1/2–1 inch long, almost all furnished with a pair of leafy stipules of about half their length; leaflets 3/4–1 inch long, 2–3 lines wide, cuneate at base. Racemes 5–6 flowered, the bracts and bracteoles caducous; pedicels longer than the calyx, glabrous above the bracteoles. Calyx cup-shaped, with wide rounded spaces between the teeth. Carina covered with white, woolly hairs on its upper half; the other petals glabrous. Flowers yellow, 1/2 inch long.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Port Natal, Krauss! (339) Gueinzius. (Herb. Hk., Sd., D.)
