Crotalaria Linnaeus (1753: 714)
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.320.1.1 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A587D8-FFAF-FFA2-FF37-EDA6CFD2F9A1 |
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Felipe |
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Crotalaria Linnaeus (1753: 714) |
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Crotalaria Linnaeus (1753: 714) View in CoL . Type:— Crotalaria lotifolia L.
= Priotropis Wight & Arnott (1834: 180) View in CoL . Type:— P. cytisoides (Roxb.) Wight & Arnott View in CoL , based on Crotalaria cytisoides Roxb. View in CoL
Herbs or shrublets, erect or prostrate. Leaves simple, or digitately compound 3 − 5-foliolate; stipules present or absent. Inflorescences racemose, terminal, axillary or leaf-opposed, open or capitate; bracts persistent or caducous; bracteoles inserted on the pedicel or on the calyx tube, persistent or caducous. Calyx View in CoL truncate or campanulate, radial with 5 subequal lobes or bilabiate. Corolla View in CoL yellow to orange or purple; standard with two basal appendages, glabrous; wings oblong, elliptic or obovate; keel connate from the middle towards the apex, incurved, beak spirally twisted or not twisted. Stamens 10, monadelphous, glabrous; anthers dimorphic, glabrous, 5 large on short filaments and 5 small on long filaments. Ovary sessile or stipitate, glabrous or hairy; style with one or two lines of hairs or dispersed pubescent. Fruits inflated, sessile or stipitate pods. Seeds reniform or harp-shaped, with or without aril.
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Crotalaria Linnaeus (1753: 714)
| Ninkaew, Sakuntala, Balslev, Henrik, Pornpongrungrueng, Pimwadee & Chantaranothai, Pranom 2017 |
Priotropis
| Wight, R. & Arnott, G. A. W. 1834: ) |
Crotalaria
| Linnaeus, C. 1753: ) |