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Crotalaria prostrata Willd.

Reference
Willd., Enum.Pl.Hort.Berol. 747 (1809)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Alien to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Prostrate or ascending, slender annual, herb, to 0.3 m high. Fl. yellow, Apr. Stony basalt soils. Slopes.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 17 August 2007

Scientific Description

Prostrate,spreading or scrambling, herb. Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, not continuous with stem, 17-30 mm long, 7-15 mm wide, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves. Calyx ribbed (?). Corolla uniformly coloured, yellow. Stamens ten; filaments united in an open sheath. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, not beaked. Flowers in April. Occurs in the Northern Botanical Province, in the Northern Kimberley IBRA regions.

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 17 April 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Northern Kimberley.
IBRA Subregions
Mitchell.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Wyndham-East Kimberley.