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Crotalaria scabra
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Family:
FABACEAE/LEGUMINOSAE (Subfam.: Papilionoideae)
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Citation: Crotalaria scabra Gamble, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1917: 28. 1917 & Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 294(208). 1918; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 123. 1989; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 128. 1992; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 143. 1994; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 198. 2002; ; Ansari, Crotalaria India 280. 2008.
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Description:
Whole plant densely brown villous. Leaves 2-3 x 1-1.5 cm, obtuse at apex, round at base; margins recurved. Stipules filiform, 0.5-0.7 cm long. Racemes few flowered, flowers to the tip of racemes. Calyx 1-1.5 cm long, densely villous; lobes 5, subequal. Corolla brownish yellow, 1.5-2 cm long; standard with a line of brown hair along midrib; wings with transverse scaly folds; keels cottony on inner margins. Staminal sheath 0.4-0.5 cm long, filaments 0.4-0.6 cm long. Ovary 0.3 cm, glabrous; style 0.8-1 cm long, hairy on inner margin; stigma hairy on inner margin. Pods 3-3.5 x 1.2-1.5 cm, oblong. Seeds 0.3-0.4 cm diam., concavo-convex.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-March
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District(s):
Kottayam, Thiruvananthapuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grasslands
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Yellow
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
Southern Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
Vulnerable (VU)
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Altitude:
1400-1800
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Localities:
Agastyarkudam, Pongalapara, Agasthymala peak
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