Crotalaria lotifolia 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 - Shrubby, branched, 6 dm.-2 m. high, slender and sometimes vine-like and up to 3 m. long, the branches and petioles appressed-pubescent. Stipules minute, deciduous; petioles slender, 2-6 cm. long; leaflets 3, oblong to elliptic, thin, 1-4 cm. long, obtuse at the apex, mostly narrowed at the base, shortstalked, silky-pubescent or glabrate beneath, usually glabrous above; racemes axillary, short-peduncled, few-flowered, as long as the leaves or shorter; calyxsegments lanceolate, acuminate, 5-7 mm. long; corolla yellow, about twice as long as the calyx, the standard reddish veined; pod narrowly oblong, beaked, 2-3 cm. long, about 6 mm. thick, finely appressed-pubeseent.
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Distribution
Open scrub-lands, New Providence and Eleuthera: Cuba to Anegada and Barbados; Jamaica. Reported from tropical Africa. Bushy Rattlebox Dolley reports Crotalaria stipularis Desv. from the Bahamas : Mr. Brace has notseen the species nor have our collectors returned it from the archipelago.
New Providence Bahamas South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Cuba South America| Anegada Virgin Islands South America| Barbados South America| Jamaica South America| Africa|