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Crotalaria axillaris Ait. | |
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| Description Shrub or woody herb, up to 1-4 m high; branches appressed to densely spreading yellowish pubescent. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets elliptic, more rarely lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, up to 4.5-10 cm long, 2.2-5.5 cm wide, glabrous above, appressed pubescent beneath; stipules filiform. Inflorescences axillary, very shortly racemose or subfasciculate, ± 2-6-flowered; standard clear yellow, tinged reddish with age. Pod oblong-clavate, narrowed gradually into a 6-10 mm long stipe, variable in size, ± 45-60 mm long, 8-14 mm across, pubescent, ± 16-20-seeded; seeds subreniform, smooth, orange-brown or buff. |
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Habitat Forest margins, deciduous woodland and bushland, grassland, also weed in abandoned arable land. Altitude range 0-2250 m. Distribution Kenya; also Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Ghana, S.W. Ethiopia and Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia and Angola. |
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