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Crotalaria Linn., Sp.Pl. 714. 1753. Gen.Pl.ed.5.320.1754; Baker in Hook.f., Fl.Brit.Ind.2:65.1876; Polhill in Kew Bull. 22:169.1968.

Herbs or shrubs. Leaf simple or palmately trifoliolate or rarely up to 7-foliolate, generally stipulate. Inflorescence a raceme, terminal or leaf opposed. Bracts and bracteoles small or absent. Calyx teeth linear, lanceolate, subequal, free or the upper 2 fused, forming a lip. Vexillum orbicular, rarely ovate. Wing shorter than the standard. Keel incurved, beaked. Stamens monadelphous, anthers dimorphic. Ovary generally sessile, 2-many ovuled, style incurved, bearded above, stigma small, rarely bilobed. Fruit sessile or stipitate, globose or linear-oblong, turgid or inflated, 2-many seeded, continuous within.

About 550 species, distributed throughout the tropics and subtropics, but most numerous in Tropical Africa; represented by 11 species in Pakistan.


1 Fruit glabrous   (6)
+ Fruit pubescent (at least when young)   (2)
       
2 (1) Fruit 2-seeded, c. 4 mm or less long   (3)
+ Fruit more than 2-seeded   (4)
       
3 (2) Stem less than 30 cm tall; petiole less than 1 cm long   Crotalaria medicaginea var. medicaginea
+ Stem more than 30 cm tall; petiole more than 1 cm long   Crotalaria medicaginea var. luxurians
       
4 (2) Fruit 10-15-seeded   Crotalaria juncea
+ Fruit 6 or less seeded   (5)
       
5 (4) Fruit 4-6 mm wide, leaf trifoliolate when present   Crotalaria persica
+ Fruit 4 mm or less wide, leaf simple   Crotalaria burhia
       
6 (1) Corolla about half the size of calyx (calyx c. 1.8-2.5 cm long)   Crotalaria calycina
+ Corolla more than half the length of the calyx (calyx less than 2 cm long)   (7)
       
7 (6) Flower 1 cm or less long   (9)
+ Flower more than 1 cm long   (8)
       
8 (7) Bract linear, subulate, 6 mm or less long   Crotalaria retusa
+ Bract ovate, c. 10 mm or more long   Crotalaria spectabilis
       
9 (7) Flower sessile   (10)
+ Flower pedicellate   (11)
       
10 (9) Leaf more than 4.5 cm long, fruit c. 1.5 cm long (calyx more hairy)   Crotalaria sessiliflora subsp. sessiliflora
+ Leaf 3.5 cm or less long, fruit c. 1.0 cm long (calyx less hairy)   Crotalaria sessiliflora subsp. hazarensis
       
11 (9) Inflorescence less than 5-flowered   Crotalaria albida
+ Inflorescence more than 5-flowered   (12)
       
12 (11) Fruit more than 1.7 cm long (c. 1.8-3.2 cm long)   Crotalaria mysorensis
+ Fruit less than 1.7 cm long (c. 1.2-1.6 cm long)   Crotalaria prostrata

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