Crotalaria lanceolata E. Mey.
subsp. lanceolata

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On ridge above Cavalo, Sanjunjira, Mt Gorongosa, Mozambique.

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Chironde Camp, Coutada 12, Cheringoma

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Bela Vista hotel site, Northwestern Gorongosa National Park.

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Synonyms:	Crotalaria mossambicensis Klotzsch
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Status:	Native
Description:	Erect annual or short-lived perennial herb, up to 1.7 m tall. Stems with some ascending branches, ribbed, appressed hairy, particularly when young. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, usually up to c. 11 cm long, thinly appressed puberulous below. Flowers in long many-flowered racemes. Standard yellow with reddish-purple veining on the outside. Keel shallowly rounded at the middle with a short incurved beak, shorter than the wings. Pod subsessile, cylindrical, up to 3.8 × 0.6 cm, sometimes, curved at the tip, appressed puberulous.
Type location:	South Africa and Mozambique
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Derivation of specific name:	lanceolata: lanceolate or spear-shaped, referring to the shape of the leaflets.
Habitat:	In open woodland, grassland and disturbed places, sometimes in moist places.
Altitude range: (metres)	Up to 1450 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa as far as the Eastern Cape, and Madagascar.
National distribution:	C,E,S
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Images last updated:	Thursday 28 December 2017
Literature:	Bandeira, S., Bolnick, D. & Barbosa, F. (2007). Wild Flowers of Southern Mozambique Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique Page 90. As Crotalaria lanceolata (Includes a picture). 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. 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 140 - 141.

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