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Crotalaria capensis Jacq.

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HIGHER TAXON: Crotalarieae

GENUS: Crotalaria L.

Crotalaria capensis Jacq. [Preferred name]
    Crotalaria arborescens Lam. {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Kenya (I) [8]; Malawi (N) [461]; Mozambique (N) [461]; South Africa (N) [461, 1915]; Swaziland (N) [461]; Zimbabwe (N) [461]
  Asia
Nepal (I) [3369]
  Indian Ocean
Mauritius (I) [1915]; Reunion (I) [1915]
  Pacific Ocean
New Zealand(North) (I) [2265]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Kalahari-Highveld regional transition zone; bushland and thicket. [461];
    Kalahari-Highveld regional transition zone; grassland. [461];
    Tongaland-Pondoland regional transition zone - grassland. [461];
    Tongaland-Pondoland regional transition zone; bushland and thicket [461];
    Zambezian bushland and thicket [461];
    Zambezian grassland [461];
    Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; bushland and thicket. [461];
    Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; grassland. [461];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [461, 3988] ; Distribution Map [461] ; Illustration [461, 3988]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS ; Habit: Shrub [3988] ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1990 (New Zealand & Pacific) Horn P, 1993 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H, 1993 Polhill RM, 2004-11 (S Asia) Kumar S & Sane P, 2005 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H (JS2005)

  
USES:
  Environmental [461, 2265, 3988]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

  Lock, J.M., 1985
    Specimen in Herb.Kew

461.

  Polhill, R.M., 1982
    A.A.Balkema,Rotterdam 389pp Crotalaria in Africa & Madagasca

1915.

  Polhill, R, M., 1990
    Legumineuses.In:Flore des Mascareignes,Vol 80.J. Bosser et a

2265.

  Horn, P.E., 1988
    Herbarium References

3369.

  Shrestha, K.K., 1998
    Revised checklist of the Legumes of Nepal (manuscript)

3988.

  Polhill, R.M., 1982
    Crotalaria in Africa and Madagascar Balkema,Rotterdam
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