Crotalaria pteropoda Balf.f.

This species is native to NE Somalia, NW Socotra, S Arabian Peninsula. (Ref. POWO; 2022). There are 7 species of Crotalaria found in Oman. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).

علم تشكل النبات


Annual or short-lived perennial herb ; up to 30 cm long , with prostrate radiating stems . Stems spreading , prostrate to decumbent , appressed pubescent . Leaves 3-foliolate ; leaflets 6-16 x 4-8 mm , obovate to broadly elliptic , the terminal leaflet largest , appressed pubescent on both surfaces or glabrous . Inflorescences solitary in leaf axils , sessile , with a pedicel-like , narrowly winged hypanthium 8-10 mm long . Flowers yellow ; calyx 10-15 mm , 4-lobed , lobes ovate-elliptic , pubescent outside , margins ciliate , enclosing the corolla , persistent ; corolla with standard petal yellow-brown , reddish on the back and medially pubescent ; keel angular , 10-12 mm ; stamens all joined with 5 long and 5 short anthers . Fruit pods 12-14 x ± 7 mm , ellipsoid , inflated , very shortly beaked , pubescent , more so on the suture , many-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


Not available

الإكثار


No data

العناية بالنبات


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الأسماء الشائعة


Not known

الأسماء المحلية


Not available

الاستخدامات


Not used traditionally.

المراجع


*POWO (2022). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.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.wikipedia.org *https://en.wiktionary.org *Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5.

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