PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / FABALES / FABACEAE / PAPILIONOIDEAE / CROTALARIEAE / CROTALARIA / HUMILIS

Crotalaria humilis Eckl. & Zeyh.
LC Indigenous Endemic
Morphological description

Decumbent, virgate annual (stems all arising from the same point at ground level), up to 0.35 m in height, strigulose. Stipules linear-subulate, ±1 mm long, strigose, persistent. Leaves with petiole ± as long as or longer than leaflets, 8-32 mm long; leaflets obovate to oblanceolate with the upper leaves often linear, glabrous above, strigulose below; terminal leaflet 8-26 x 4-9 mm, lateral leaflets 7-21 x 3-7 mm, obtuse, sometimes mucronulate. Inflorescences terminal or leaf-opposed raceme, 40-220 mm long, with 2-7 flowers; pedicel 3-7 mm long; bract lanceolate to subulate, 1-2 mm long, strigulose, persistent; bracteoles minutely subulate, ±0.5 mm long, strigulose, persistent, inserted near the middle of the pedicel. Flowers yellow. Calyx 5-6 mm long, strigulose, lobes longer than the tube; lobes ±4 mm long, acuminate; tube ±2 mm long Standard lamina obovate to oblate, 9-11 x 10-11 mm, retuse and mucronulate, glabrous outside, but puberulous along the midvein; claw 2-3 mm long. Wings oblong, ±10 x 2-4 mm, ± as long as the keel, with 5-6 rows of sculpturing; claw 2-4 mm long. Keel ±10 mm long, rounded ± in the middle, usually with a slightly incurved beak, pocket often present; claw ±2 mm long. Pistil stipe ±1 mm long; ovary 3-6 x ±1 mm, 8-16 ovules, densely strigose to pubescent on the upper and lower margins of the ovary; style 10-11 mm long. Fruits elliptic-oblong to oblong-clavate 13-21 x 4-6 mm, strigose to strigulose; stipe 1-3 mm long Seeds oblique-cordiform to sub-circular, ±2 x 2mm rugose, brown. From: Le Roux, MM; Van Wyk, B-E. 2013. A taxonomic revision of Amphitrichae, a new section of Crotalaria (Fabaceae). Syst. Bot. 38(3): 638-652. [DOI 10.1600/036364413X670296] [All rights reserved]

Like C. excisa but an annual, without a woody rootstock, rachis with a conspicuous setaceous extension beyond last flower, flowers 2-6(10), standard broader than long, and keel 7-9 mm long and rounded beyond middle, with an upwardly directed beak. From: Campbell-Young, GJ. 2013. Fabaceae: Crotalaria. In: DA Snijman (ed.), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 2: The Extra Cape flora. Strelitzia 30: 385-386. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]

Like C. excisa but annual and not developing a woody rootstock. From: Schutte, AL. 2012. Fabaceae: Crotalaria L. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 548-549. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]

Diagnostic description

Crotalaria humilis is closely related to C. excisa, but differs in having an annual habit with all the stems originating from the same central point at ground level, 2-7 flowers per inflorescence, and rugose seeds (perennial habit with branching of stems in different positions, 1-3(6) flowers per inflorescence, and smooth seeds with some trichomes in C. excisa). From: Le Roux, MM; Van Wyk, B-E. 2013. A taxonomic revision of Amphitrichae, a new section of Crotalaria (Fabaceae). Syst. Bot. 38(3): 638-652. [DOI 10.1600/036364413X670296] [All rights reserved]

Habitat

Sandy soil at altitudes below 1,000 m above sea level. From: Le Roux, MM; Van Wyk, B-E. 2013. A taxonomic revision of Amphitrichae, a new section of Crotalaria (Fabaceae). Syst. Bot. 38(3): 638-652. [DOI 10.1600/036364413X670296] [All rights reserved]

Sandy places. From: Campbell-Young, GJ. 2013. Fabaceae: Crotalaria. In: DA Snijman (ed.), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 2: The Extra Cape flora. Strelitzia 30: 385-386. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]

Karroid scrub, sandy places, 300-1050 m. From: Schutte, AL. 2012. Fabaceae: Crotalaria L. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 548-549. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]

Distribution

Doornpoort in the Springbok district southwards to the Clanwilliam-Verlore Vlei. From: Le Roux, MM; Van Wyk, B-E. 2013. A taxonomic revision of Amphitrichae, a new section of Crotalaria (Fabaceae). Syst. Bot. 38(3): 638-652. [DOI 10.1600/036364413X670296] [All rights reserved]

Richtersveld to Olifants River Valley. From: Campbell-Young, GJ. 2013. Fabaceae: Crotalaria. In: DA Snijman (ed.), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 2: The Extra Cape flora. Strelitzia 30: 385-386. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]

Richtersveld to Olifants River. From: Schutte, AL. 2012. Fabaceae: Crotalaria L. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 548-549. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]

Flowering time

September to October

Altitude

0 to 1000 m

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Residence status

Occurrence in the Flora of Southern Africa (FSA) countries and South African provinces. Residence status indicates if a taxon is indigenous, endemic, naturalised or invasive in a specific region. This data is based on specimen records and literature

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Names and Sources

Accepted name
Crotalaria humilis Eckl. & Zeyh.

Published in: Enum. Pl. Afric. Austral. [Ecklon & Zeyher] 2: 174 (1836)

Type: South Africa. Western Cape, Olifants River, Ecklon & Zeyher 1263 (K [sub K. no. 000225773],, lecto.; MO, P, S, SAM, isolecto.). Designated by Le Roux & Van Wyk, Syst. Bot 38(3): 649 (2013).

Synonym(s)

Crotalaria effusa E.Mey.

Published in: Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr. (Meyer): 25 (1836)

Types: South Africa. Western Cape, Krakkeelskraal [between Pedroskloof and Leliefontein], Drege ‘a’ (B, lecto.†; P, isolecto.) and Drege ‘III.A.a’ (NYBG, isolecto.). See Polhill, Crotalaria in Africa and Madagascar (1982).


Ononis racemosa Thunb.


Classification

KINGDOM Plantae

SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae

PHYLUM Anthophyta

ORDER Fabales

FAMILY Fabaceae

SUBFAMILY Papilionoideae

TRIBE Crotalarieae

GENUS Crotalaria

SPECIES humilis

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Barcode: NBG0265056-0 Collector(s) & number: Barker, WF, 10531 | 1967-10-11

South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand Dist. Skilpad Farm, near Khamieskroon.

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Barcode: NBG0265061-0 Collector(s) & number: Oliver, EGH, 5974 | 1975-9-1

South Africa, Northern Cape, Khamiesberg. Rondefontein, slopes south of Nartjiesdam.

General notes: Alt. 780 m. Sandy open ground between tall scrub. Locally frequent creepers. Flowers yellow with red-brown stripes.

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Barcode: PRE0413754-0 Collector(s) & number: Van der Schijff, HP, 8228 | 1967-8-15

South Africa, Northern Cape, BETWEEN STEINKOPF AND SPRINGBOK

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Barcode: PRE0528671-0 Collector(s) & number: Wolley-Dod, AH, 2057 | 1977-9-3

South Africa, Northern Cape, RICHTERSVELD; LEKKERSING; 8 KM SUID VAN LEKKERSING

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Barcode: PRE0526692-0 Collector(s) & number: Wolley-Dod, AH, 2057 | 1977-9-3

South Africa, Northern Cape, RICHTERSVELD; LEKKERSING; 8 KM SUID VAN LEKKERSING

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Barcode: NBG0211180-0 Collector(s) & number: Cruz, O, 186 | 1996-8-19

South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. Kamiesberg. Skiopad Wildflower Reserve. 100 m S of dam near house.

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Barcode: PRE0760138-0 Collector(s) & number: Sachse, B, 267 | 2006-8-13

South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqua National Park. South of Riethuis enroute to Jantjieskop. Quartzite outcrop.

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Barcode: NBG0251626-0 Collector(s) & number: Oliver, EGH, 9528 | 1990-7-5

South Africa, Western Cape, Kliprand area; Suurdam W of Kliprand, slopes N of Nebo.

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Barcode: PRE0700937-0 Collector(s) & number: Bolus, H, 432 | 1883-9-

South Africa, Cape Province, NAMAQUALAND; KLIPFONTEIN

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Barcode: NBG0251628-0 Collector(s) & number: Marloth, R, 12249 | 1925-8-21

South Africa, Northern Cape, Little Namaqualand Province. Richtersveld district. Andaus Poort.

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Barcode: PRE0107085-0 Collector(s) & number: Schlechter, FRR, TRV 3342 | 1896-7-30

South Africa, Western Cape, Wind Hoek.

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Barcode: PRE0686295-0 Collector(s) & number: Zietsman, PC, 1089 | 1985-9-21

South Africa, Western Cape, VANRHYNSDORP DIST.; WIEDOUW; ONDER DIE GIFBERG. VELD

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Barcode: PRE0488306-0 Collector(s) & number: Stirton, CH, 6054B | 1976-9-3

South Africa, Northern Cape, 5 KM. FROM KOTZESRUS TURNOFF ON WALLEKRAAL TO GARIES RD.

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Barcode: PRE0413748-0 Collector(s) & number: van der Westhuizen, JH, 273 | 1972-8-2

South Africa, Northern Cape, NAMAQUALAND; KAMIESKROON; ARKOEP 12 MI N VAN KAMIESKROON

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Barcode: NBG0028431-2 Collector(s) & number: Barker, WF, 8552 | 1955-9-4

South Africa, Western Cape, Unions Kraal, near van Rhynsdorp.

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Barcode: NBG0251599-0 Collector(s) & number: Thompson, MF, 2845 | 1976-9-9

South Africa, Western Cape, On "Warm Viool" north east of Lelikebankieskoppies.

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Barcode: NBG0251614-0 Collector(s) & number: Marloth, R, 12256 | 1925-8-21

South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand Dist. Audaus-poort.

General notes: Alt. 300 m.

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Barcode: SAM0052437-0 Collector(s) & number: Thorne, CH, s.n. | 1936-11-

South Africa, Northern Cape, Between Springbok and Kamieskroon, Namaqualand.

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Barcode: NBG0028431-1 Collector(s) & number: Barker, WF, 8552 | 1955-9-4

South Africa, Western Cape, Unions Kraal, near van Rhynsdorp.

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Barcode: PRE0737163-0 Collector(s) & number: Jurgens, N, 22345 | 1987-8-18

South Africa, Northern Cape, RICHTERSVELD; GOARIEPVLAKTE; FLAT DUNE OF RED SAND. 28.390 S; 16.570 E

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Barcode: PRE0515154-0 Collector(s) & number: Thompson, MF, 2845 | 1976-9-9

South Africa, Western Cape, LELIKE BANKIESKOPPIE; WARM VIOOL NE. OF LELIKEBANKIESKOPPIES

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Barcode: NBG0251627-0 Collector(s) & number: Marloth, R, 12256 | 1925-8-21

South Africa, Northern Cape, Little Namaqualand Province. Richtersveld district. Andaus Poort.

General notes: Alt. 300 m.

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Barcode: PRE0459059-0 Collector(s) & number: Acocks, JPH, 19376 | 1957-7-24

South Africa, Northern Cape, NAMAQUALAND; KOMAGGAS; 6 MI. SE. OF KOMAGGAS

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Barcode: NBG0251617-0 Collector(s) & number: Hilton-Taylor, C, 1318 | 1986-9-2

South Africa, Northern Cape, Bokskloof, Kookfontein Farm 10 km NE of Soebatsfontein.

General notes: Alt. 400 m. Succulent Karoo on rocky hill. Aspect - ESE. Flowers yellow. Pods inflated.

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Barcode: NBG0251612-0 Collector(s) & number: Le Roux, A, 663 | 1986-10-15

South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. Farm Oubees 339. 1.2 km E of Oubees / Wildepaardehoek boundary fence and 4.7 km E of Springbok - Soebatsfontein road.

General notes: Alt. 235 m. Plain. Well-drained; red sandy soil. Level slope. Small aeolian sand dunes (Oubees se sand). Acock's Veld Type 31. Karoo vegetation. Unknow disturbance. Local occasional annual prostrate herb 0.02 m. Flowers yellow. Reddish - green fruit.

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Barcode: PRE0758199-0 Collector(s) & number: Steyn, HM, 1036 | 2006-8-13

South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqua National Park. S of Riethuis on track to Jantjieskop.

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Barcode: PRE0413753-0 Collector(s) & number: Marloth, HWR, 12249 | 1925-8-21

South Africa, Northern Cape, RICHTERSVELD

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Barcode: PRE0803976-0 Collector(s) & number: Hilton-Taylor, C, 1318 | 1986-9-2

South Africa, Northern Cape, Bokskloof: Kookfontein Farm 10km North East of Soebatsfontein.

General notes: Det: A. Fellingham

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Barcode: NBG0251591-0 Collector(s) & number: Le Roux, 457 | 1986-9-3

South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. Kookfontein.

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Barcode: NBG0015425-0 Collector(s) & number: Steyn, M, 461 | 1949-9-8

South Africa, Western Cape, Van Rhynsdorp Dist. Vredendal Road.

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Barcode: NBG0251594-0 Collector(s) & number: Oliver, EGH, 3171 | 1970-9-11

South Africa, Western Cape, South east of Urionskraal.

General notes: Alt. 700 ft. Sandy flats. Locally frequent in patches; sparse creeping plants; flowers yellow.

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Barcode: NBG1524400-0 Collector(s) & number: Helme, NA, 8373 | 2013-8-20

South Africa, Northern Cape, 16 km NE Groen River mouth, Roode Heuvel 502.

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Barcode: PRE0413744-0 Collector(s) & number: Bolus, H, 432 | 1883-9-

South Africa, Northern Cape, LITTLE NAMAQUALAND; KLIPFONTEIN

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Barcode: PRE0499815-0 Collector(s) & number: Rosch, MW, 1428 | 1976-8-25

South Africa, Northern Cape, NAMAQUALAND; WALLEKRAAL; 10 KM. VANAF WALLEKRAAL OP PAD NA KAMIESKROON

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Barcode: PRE0488305-0 Collector(s) & number: Stirton, CH, 6035 | 1976-9-2

South Africa, Northern Cape, HONDEKLIP BAY; WALLEKRAAL

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Barcode: PRE0694315-0 Collector(s) & number: Stirton, CH, 9268 | 1981-9-22

South Africa, Western Cape, MATSIKAMMABERG; COLINSHOEK

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Barcode: PRE0481777-0 Collector(s) & number: Stirton, CH, 5987 | 1976-8-31

South Africa, Northern Cape, KAMIESKROON; 10 KM. FROM KAMIESKROON TO GARIES

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Barcode: PRE0413752-0 Collector(s) & number: Compton, RH, 11361 | 1941-8-24

South Africa, Western Cape, NAMAQUALAND; BRAKDAM

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Barcode: PRE0774830-0 Collector(s) & number: Perry, PL, 3530 | 1986-9-26

South Africa, Western Cape, 8,8 KM FROM VREDENDAL TO VAN RHYNSDORP

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Barcode: PRE0614523-0 Collector(s) & number: Goldblatt, P, 5702 | 1980-9-7

South Africa, Northern Cape, KAMIESKROON; 10 KM S OF KAMIESKROON

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Barcode: PRE0413747-0 Collector(s) & number: Scully, 146 | --

South Africa, Northern Cape, NAMAQUALAND

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Barcode: PRE0413745-0 Collector(s) & number: Bolus, 6552 | --

South Africa, Northern Cape, LITTLE NAMAQUALAND; KLIPFONTEIN

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Barcode: NBG0251580-0 Collector(s) & number: Bolus, H, 2998 | -9-

South Africa, Western Cape, Near Cape Town.

General notes: Alt. 80 ft. Flowers yellow.

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Barcode: PRE0720403-0 Collector(s) & number: Perold, SM, 1645 | 1987-9-28

South Africa, Northern Cape, NARIEP; 9 KM W OF NARIEP, FARM ROODEHEUWEL.

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Barcode: NBG0251587-0 Collector(s) & number: Taylor, HC, 5278 | 1963-10-3

South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Point. Rheboksdam.

General notes: Alt. 100 ft.

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Barcode: PRE0666947-0 Collector(s) & number: Grobbelaar, N, 2582 | 1980-9-1

South Africa, Northern Cape, NAMAKWALAND; OP PAD NA STEINKOPF NA PORT NOLLOTH 30KM VAN PORT NOLLOTH

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Barcode: PRE0880410-0 Collector(s) & number: Bester, SP, 18546 | 2022-8-28

South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand District. ca. 28 km SSE of Garies on N7. Farm: Meul (Stinkfontein).

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Barcode: PRE0714389-0 Collector(s) & number: Cattell, P, 155 | 1982-9-9

South Africa, Western Cape, OUDTSHOORN DIST.; GAMKA MOUNTAIN N. RESERVE; SE CORNER OF RESERVE, LOWER PLATEAU, FIRE-BREAK, E BOUNDARY

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Barcode: NBG0086818-0 Collector(s) & number: Barker, WF, 10531 | 1967-10-11

South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand Dist. Skilpad Farm near Khamieskroon.

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Barcode: NBG0251582-0 Collector(s) & number: Taylor, HC, 7162 | 1967-10-6

South Africa, Western Cape, Simonstown Dist. Springholsgat just S of Olifantsbos, Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve.

General notes: Alt. c. 20 ft. Strandveld cf. coastal shelf. Creeping with lemon yellow flowers. Occasional.

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Barcode: PRE0591434-0 Collector(s) & number: Koekemoer, M, 2860 | 2004-9-1

South Africa, Northern Cape, Namakwa National Park along the road to Soebatsfontein on red Kalahari sand.

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Barcode: SAM0031919-0 Collector(s) & number: Bolus, H, 432 | 1883-9-

Unknown, Klipfontein.

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Barcode: PRE0848549-0 Collector(s) & number: Jaca, T, 111 | 2009-8-20

South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqua National Park. Farm Graskom. Homestead Taaiboschduin.

General notes: Strandveld. Slope: moderate. Creeping on the ground.

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Barcode: NBG0251589-0 Collector(s) & number: Steyn, M, 461 | 1949-9-8

South Africa, Western Cape, Van Rhynsdorp Dist. Vredendal road.

General notes: Flowers yellow.

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Barcode: NBG0251625-0 Collector(s) & number: Thompson, MF, 1299 | 1971-9-20

South Africa, Northern Cape, West of Springbok. Sandhoogte.

General notes: Sandy flats. Low spreading shrublet. Flowers bright yellow.

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Barcode: PRE0413749-0 Collector(s) & number: Acocks, JPH, 14907 | 1948-9-21

South Africa, Western Cape, VAN RHYNSDORP DIV.; GIFBERG PASS

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Barcode: PRE0428218-0 Collector(s) & number: Grobbelaar, N, 1985 | 1976-8-24

South Africa, Northern Cape, Kamieskroon: 20 km vanaf Kamieskroon op pad na Springbok.

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Barcode: NBG0015426-0 Collector(s) & number: Barker, WF, 5682 | 1949-9-8

South Africa, Western Cape, Van Rhynsdorp Dist. Vredendal road.

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Barcode: PRE0481562-0 Collector(s) & number: Stirton, CH, 5948 | 1976-8-30

South Africa, Western Cape, VAN RHYNSDORP DIV.; MATSIKAMMA MTS; SANDKRAAL FARM NR. MTS.

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2013

SERIES CHAPTER

Fabaceae: Crotalaria Campbell-Young, GJ

In: DA Snijman (ed.), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 2: The Extra Cape flora. Strelitzia 30: 385-386

South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria

2013

PERIODICAL/JOURNAL

A taxonomic revision of Amphitrichae, a new section of Crotalaria (Fabaceae) Le Roux, MM; Van Wyk, B-E

Systematic Botany 38(3)638-652

2012

SERIES CHAPTER

Fabaceae: Crotalaria L. Schutte, AL

In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 548-549

South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria

1982

BOOK

Crotalaria in Africa and Madagascar Polhill, RM

A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam

1928

PERIODICAL/JOURNAL

A revision of the Crotalarias of south and south-east tropical Africa Verdoorn, IC

Bothalia 2(1-3)371-420

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