Crotalaria medicaginea Lam.

This species is native to Tropical & Subtropical Asia to N. & NE. Australia. (Ref. POWO; 2022). There are 7 species of Crotalaria found in Oman. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).

علم تشكل النبات


Annual herb ; up to 35 cm tall , with somewhat woody stems . Stems erect , slender , branched , appressed , pubescent . Leaves 3-foliolate ; leaflets 6-15 x 2-4 mm , obovate , apex obtuse , truncate , or retuse , base cuneate , margin emarginated . Inflorescences in congested racemes . Flowers yellow ; calyx 2-3 mm , lobed to half its length , lobes triangular , pubescent , persistent ; corolla with standard petal yellow , tinged brown ; wings oblong to obovate , 3-4 mm ; keel ± as long as wings , angular , 3-4 mm ; stamens all joined with 5 long and 5 short anthers ; ovary sessile . Fruit pods 3-4 , globose to subglobose , inflated , apex shortly beaked , white-pubescent , 1-2-seeded . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 2) .

وقت الإزهار


No Data

الوضع البيئي الحالي


Not Evaluated (NE)

الوفرة


Not Common

التوزيع الجغرافي والبيئي


الوصف غير متاح حاليًا

Distribution Map

المرادفات


Crotalaria foliosa Willd.
Crotalaria zollingeriana Miq.

الإكثار


No data

العناية بالنبات


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الأسماء الشائعة


Trefoil Rattlepod
Medick Rattlepod

الأسماء المحلية


Not available

الاستخدامات


Not recorded yet

المراجع


*POWO (2022). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org *https://en.wikipedia.org *Ghazanfar, S. (2007). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.2: Crassulaceae – Apiaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 36). ISBN 9789072619747 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wiktionary.org *https://somemagneticislandplants.com.au

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