Crotalaria diosmifolia Benth.

• Region

  Africa

• Country

  Madagascar

• Locality

  C Madagascar, Antananarivo Province. southern end of the cliffs west of Amboasary, c. 35 km S of Antananarivo, near Route Nationale 7.

• Elevation

  Alt. 1500 m. (4921 ft.)

• Coordinates

  -19.18, 47.5

• Location Notes

  [Africa]

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

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Crotalaria diosmifolia Benth.
C Madagascar, Antananarivo Province, southern
end of the cliffs west of Amboasary, c. 35 km S
of Antananarivo, near Route Nationale 7.
Map Ref.: 19°11'S 47°30'E
Steep rocky hillside with quartzite, on rocks with
gravel and amongst coarse grasses.
Alt. 1500 m.
Small leggy shrub, attractive, with new flowering
stems, c. 10-40 cm tall, frequently spreading and
unbranched until near the apex; stems silvery
grey-green; leaves trifoliolate, the leaflets sessile,
stipules small, appressed; leaflets narrow,
pointed, subcoriaceous, silvery grey-green above
and beneath. Flowers often paired at the tips of
short side shoots, sometimes becoming massed
into a head of several flowers, bright buttercup
yellow, c. 14-15 mm tall; calyx 5-lobed, star-
shaped, grey hairy; standard bright yellow in
front, with a slightly greenish base and feint rays,
whitish hairy and stained brown behind, c. 12 mm
tall, 16 mm broad; wings yellow, slightly
spreading above the keel; keel greenish. Fruits
inflated, strongly greyish felty hairy, not quite
ripe.
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