IUCN Status

- Crotalaria medicaginea var. medicaginea
- Naturally grown
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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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