Annual or perennial , shrub or large woody herb , bushy ; up to 60 cm tall . Stems branched , pubescent . Leaves pale green , 3-foliolate ; leaflets 20-35 x 10-21 mm , broadly obovate , emarginate margin . Inflorescences in long congested racemes . Flowers yellow ; calyx 4-6 mm , lobes acuminate , pubescent , persistent ; corolla with standard petal bright yellow , medially pubescent ; keel rounded , 8-12 mm , beak curving inwards ; stamens all joined with 5 long and 5 short anthers . Fruit pods , 12-18 x ± 4 mm , oblong , inflated , curved , woolly white-pubescent , ± 8–12-seeded . Seeds ± 2 . 5–3 mm long , triangular-cordiform , rugulose , dark brown . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 2) .
No Data
Data Deficient (DD) - National Assessment
Not Common
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Crotalaria argyraea Franch.
Crotalaria farcta R.Br. ex Baker f.
Crotalaria franchetii Baker f.
Crotalaria lupinoides Hochst. ex Benth.
Crotalaria pallida Klotzsch
Crotalaria saltiera Aiton ex Steud.
Crotalaria thomasii var. sericea Chiov.
No data
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African Rattlebox
Not used traditionally.
*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
