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Crotalaria lachnocarpoides
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Photo: Lari Merrett
Mutinondo Widerness Area, Mayense Main Camp: Near Middle Big Cipundu crossing.
Photo: Lari Merrett
Mutinondo Widerness Area, Mayense Main Camp: Near Middle Big Cipundu crossing.
Photo: Lari Merrett
Mutinondo Widerness Area, Mayense Main Camp: Near Middle Big Cipundu crossing.
Photo: Lari Merrett
Mutinondo Widerness Area, Mayense Main Camp: Near Middle Big Cipundu crossing.
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Bushy slightly woody herb or small shrub up to 0.5‒2 m tall, very densely covered with long fine spreading hairs. Leaves shortly petiolate, 3-foliolate; leaflets densely pilose on both surfaces; stipules 5‒8 mm long, linear. Racemes lax to dense, mostly 4‒12-flowered. Pod shortly and broadly cylindric, 2.5-3.2 cm long, densely shaggy hairy. |
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| Derivation of specific name: | lachnocarpoides: resembling C. lachnocarpa |
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| Worldwide distribution: | DRC, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
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Baumann, G. (2005). Photographic Guide to Wildflowers of Malawi Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi Pages 32 - 33. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 155. Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 17. Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 218. Fowler, D.G. (2007). Zambian Plants: Their Vernacular Names and Uses, Kew Publishing Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 47. Martins, E.S. et al. (2003). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(7) Pages 109 - 110. Polhill, R.M. (2003). Flora Zambesiaca 3(7) Pages 109 - 110. |
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