Crotalaria medicaginea Lam.

🌿 Common Name: Medick Rattlepod, रणमैथी, अदबमैथी, वनमैथी / झोझुरधनिया

IUCN Status

Not Applicable : Not Applicable
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  • Crotalaria medicaginea var. medicaginea
  • Naturally grown
  • Habit : A small annual herb, with branched tap root system.
    Stem : Erect, cylindrical, branched, herbaceous, hairy, green.
    Leaves : Ramal and cauline, alternate, petiolate, stipulate, palmately compound, trifoliate, obovate, margin entire, apex emarginated, multicostate reticulate.
    Inflorescence : Racemose raceme.
    Flowers :
    Bracteate, ebracteolate, pedicellate, complete, hermaphrodite, zygomorphic, pentamerous, perigynous.
    Calyx made up of 5 sepals, gamosepalous, valvate.
    Corolla made up of 5 petals, polypetalous, papilionaceous, vexillary aestivation.
    Androecium of 10 stamens, monadelphous, dithecous, dorsifixed, introrse.
    Gynoecium monocarpellary, semi-inferior, unilocular, many ovules, marginal placentation, style long, stigma capitate.
    Fruit : Legume
    Seeds : Compressed, smooth, glabrous, dark-brown, subreniform.
    Flowering and Fruiting Time : August-February
    PC: © Sonu Kumar
    Source: Foi, efoi, powo, ibp, iNat

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    Pods

Plant Phenological Events

Month Phenological Events
March 🍒 Fruiting
April 🍎 Fruit Ripening

Systematic position

DivisionAngiosperm
ClassDicotyledons
Sub-ClassPolypetalae
SeriesCalyciflorae
OrdRosales
FamilyFabaceae
SpeciesCrotalaria medicaginea Lam.
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