Crotalaria laburnifolia L.
subsp. laburnifolia

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Crotalaria laburnifolia subsp. laburnifolia

Photo: Helen Pickering
South of Livingstone: on right hand side of road to Batoka Sky (Sichinga road on 1974 map), about 300m from the turn off the main road

Photo: Bart Wursten
Chamabonda Vlei, Zambezi National Park.

Photo: Bart Wursten
Along Fort Usher road, Matobo

Chalimbana roadside
Apr 2010
Photo: Mike Bingham

Photo: Petra Ballings
Along D3508 Kalimbeza road

Photo: Bart Wursten
Along D3508 Kalimbeza road

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Synonyms:
Common names:	Oldland rattlepod (English) Wild sunhemp (English)
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Status:
Description:	Erect shrubby herb, up to 2 m tall. Stems hairless or thinly pubescent, scarcely woody. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets elliptic to obovate-elliptic, up to c. 10.5 cm long, blunt or rounded at the apex, usually pubescent, at least when young. Flowers, c. 4 cm long, yellow, often marked reddish-brown on the outside, in lax many-flowered racemes. Keel 2-3 cm long. Pod oblong-clavate to subcylindric, 5-7.5 cm long, hairless but mottled when young, abruptly contracted into the stipe, usually about than half as long as the pod. See subsp. australis for comparison.
Type location:	Sri Lanka
Notes:
Derivation of specific name:	laburnifolia: with leaves resembling a Laburnum (another genus in Papilionoideae).
Habitat:
Altitude range: (metres)
Flowering time:	Jan – Mar
Worldwide distribution:	Widespread in drier parts of east and northeast Africa, Mascarene Islands, India, Malesia and NE Australia.
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Literature:	Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 11. Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 218. Heath, A. & Heath, R. (2009). Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana including the Okavango Delta Kew Publishing Page 261. (Includes a picture). 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 90 - 92. Ntore, S. & al. (2024). Checklist of the vascular plants of Burundi Page 118. Pickering, H. & Roe, E. (2009). Wild Flowers of the Victoria Falls Area Helen Pickering, London Page 72. (Includes a picture). Polhill, R.M. (2003). Flora Zambesiaca 3(7) Pages 91 - 92. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 63. Troupin, G. (1983). Fabaceae (Papilionaceae) Flore du Rwanda Spermatophytes Volume II Page 142. (Includes a picture). Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 94.

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Crotalaria laburnifolia L. subsp. laburnifolia