Crotalaria incana L.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Fabaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Annual or biennial, herbaceous, usually branched, 1.3 m. high or less, the branches, petioles and racemes densely pubescent. Stipules subulate, 5 mm. long or less, deciduous, or wanting; petioles 2-8 cm. long; leaflets 3, obovate, oval or obovate-orbicular, short-stalked, 1-5 cm. long, thin, obtuse and often mucronulate at the apex, obtuse or narrowed at the base, pubescent beneath, glabrate above; racemes terminal, long-peduneled, several-flowered; calyxsegments lanceolate, acuminate, 7-9 mm. long; corolla yellow or greenishyellow, 10-13 mm. long; pods oblong, pendent, pubescent, 2-3.5 cm. long, about 1 cm. thick.
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Distribution
Waste and cultivated grounds, New Providence and Hog Island : southern United States; West Indies and continental tropical America north to Mexico; Old World tropics. Velvety Rattiebox.
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