MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH045 : Crotalaria linifolia L.f. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 116 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Leguminosae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | narrow-leaved crotalaria | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Crotalaria caespitosa Roxb. Crotalaria diffusa Wight & Arn. Crotalaria linifolia var. pygmaea Yamam. Crotalaria linifolia var. tecta (B.Heyne)K.K.N.Nair Crotalaria tecta B.Heyne |
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| Description : | Much branched herbs, up to 50 cm high; stems terete, pubescent. Leaves simple, 1.0-2.3 x 0.4-1.2 cm, oblong-obovate or obovate, cuneate at base, obtuse, rounded or retuse and slightly mucronate at apex, glabrous or glabrescent above, sericeo-pubescent beneath, margins involute, lateral nerves 3-6 pairs; subcoriaceous, up to 2.5 cm long; petioles 0.5-1.5 mm long, pubescent; stipules absent. Racemes terminal; peduncles 2-9 cm long, stout with few extra bracts. Flowers 3-7, 1.3-1.4 cm across; pedicels 2-3 mm long, pubescent, stout; bracts linear, 1.0-1.5 mm long pubescent; bracteoles 2, linear, ca 1.5 mm long, with few hairs. Calyx 5-lobed, tube ca 2 mm long, lobes 10.5-11.0 x 1-3 mm, piloso-pubescent, margins ciliate, 2-lipped, upper lip 2-lobed, lobes oblong-lanceolate, subacute at apex, divided to less than one fourth of its length, lower lip 3-lobed, lobes linear-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, divided to more than half of its length. Petals pale-yellow, equal to calyx or rarely very scarcely exserted; standard orbicular, 9-10 x 8-10 mm, retuse at apex, glabrous, claw 1.5 mm long, woolly; wing petals obovate or oblong, 8-10 x 2.5-3 mm, obtuse at apex, ridges to about half of its breadth, claw 1.0-1.5 mm long, woolly; keel petals ovate, 12.5-13.0 x ca 4.5 mm, margins ciliate, beak ca 4.5 mm long, straight, twisted. Staminal sheath 3-4 mm long; free filaments 2.5-5.0 mm long; anthers dimorphic, longer anthers linear-oblong, 2.5-3.0 mm long; shorter anthers, ovoid, 0.5-1.0 mm long. Ovary subsessile, oblong, ca 5 x 1 mm, narrowed above, glabrous; style 10-11 mm long, pilose throughout the length; stigma flat; ovules 22-44. Pods sessile, oblong, 1.3-1.5 x 0.6-0.7 cm, glabrous, brown; seeds 10-20. | |||||||||||||
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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