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Crotalaria trichotoma Bojer
Family Fabaceae
Subfamily Faboideae
Crotalaria trichotoma Bojer APNI*

Synonyms: Crotalaria zanzibarica Benth. APNI*

Description: Erect annual or short-lived perennial to 3 m high; stems ribbed, scabrous to pubescent.

Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets elliptic 3–7 cm long, 8–25 mm wide, upper surface glabrous, lower surface sparsely pubescent; petiole just shorter than leaflets; stipules absent.

Racemes 15–40 cm long, c. 40-flowered; pedicels c. 8 mm long. Calyx 4–5 mm long, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Corolla c. 12–15 mm long, yellow with purplish brown venation; wings ± equal to keel with a purplish patch at base; keel incurved at middle, beak c. 10–12 mm long, not twisted.

Pod 35–45 mm long, black at maturity; seeds 2–3 mm long, pale yellow to reddish.


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Flowering: mostly autumn–winter.

Distribution and occurrence: Naturalized, north from Grafton. Native of trop. Afr.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC
Other Australian states: *Qld
AVH map***

Text by C. Gardner & G.J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)


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