Crotalaria pumila Ortega

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Fabaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Crotalaria pumila Ortega

  • Description

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    Species Description - Perennial, woody below, finely pubescent or glabrate, branched, the slender branches decumbent or ascending, 1-9 dm. long. Stipules 1-2 mm. long, deciduous, subulate; petioles very slender, 0.5-2 cm. long; leaflets 3, oblong, oblanceolate or obovate, thin, 5-15 mm. long, rounded or emarginate at the apex, narrowed or cuneate at the base, glabrous above, more or less pubescent beneath; racemes few-flowered, mostly terminal, much longer than the lea 1 pedicels slender, 2-5 mm. long; calyx 5-cleft to about the middle, the lobes acute or acuminate; petals yellow, the standard 7-9 mm. long, twice as long as the calyx, the keel with a short horizontal beak; pod oblong, sessile, 10-15 mm. long, about 5 mm. thick.

  • Discussion

    Pine and palmetto-lands, Abaco, Great Bahama, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera, Cat Island, Watling's Island. Great Guana Cay, Exuma and Crooked Island: Florida; Cuba; Hispianola ; St. Kitts to Barbadoes ; Jamaica; Mexico to Venezuela. Low Ratti.ebox.

  • Distribution

    Abaco, Great Bahama, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera, Cat Island, Watling's Island. Great Guana Cay, Exuma and Crooked Island: Florida; Cuba; Hispianola ; St. Kitts to Barbadoes ; Jamaica; Mexico to Venezuela.

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