Crotalaria anagyroides Kunth

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JRUMAN G. YUNCKER HERBARIUM
OF DEPAUW UNIVERSITY (DPU)
PURCHASED BY NY IN 1987
DEPAUW UNIV.
HERBARIUM.
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Flora of Niue Island
Herbarium of Bernice P. Bishop Museum
Crotalaria anagyroides Humboldt, Boripland and Kunth, Nov. Gen. Spec.
Plant. 6:404, 1823.
Freely branching, shrubby, densely brown pubescent plant, up to 2 or more m. tall.
Leaves alternate, trifoliate, leaflets elliptical, entire, up to 7 or more cm. long, cuspidate.
Flowers yellow, showy, short pedicellate, numerous in elongated, termina, spi e i
racemes. Pod up to 4 cm. long and about 8 mm. thick, somewhat flattened.
Introduced and cultivated at the government plantation at Fonukula
(9674). The seeds have been scattered throughout the island in the hope that
the growth of the plant will improve the poor soil. English ñame, rattle box.
Crotalaria anagyroides H.B.K.
Introduced. Plantation 2 ml. w. of
Makupu village. 65 m. alt.
Jan. 16, 1940.
Com.. T. G. Yunckex
Dm.
ÍL70 7S'
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