taxonID	type	description	language	source
0E714A09E14A0D3AFF11FDC20842FB97.taxon	description	Figure 1.	en	Jabeena, Manjakulam Khadhersha, Prabhukumar, Konickal Mambetta, Maya, Chandrashekaran Nair, Sunil, Chandrasseril Narayanan, Balachandran, Indira (2023): Revisiting the taxonomy of Crotalaria priestleyoides (Fabaceae: Papilionoideae), an endemic legume of Western Ghats. Phytotaxa 594 (2): 153-157, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.594.2.7, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.594.2.7
0E714A09E14A0D3AFF11FDC20842FB97.taxon	materials_examined	Type (neotype, here designated): — INDIA, Hab. Concan & C., Herb Stocks s. n. (K 000591060). Isoneotypes: P 02750837, P 02750839, P 02750840, L 1986583, M 0219498, CAL 103418 (digital images!). Figure 2	en	Jabeena, Manjakulam Khadhersha, Prabhukumar, Konickal Mambetta, Maya, Chandrashekaran Nair, Sunil, Chandrasseril Narayanan, Balachandran, Indira (2023): Revisiting the taxonomy of Crotalaria priestleyoides (Fabaceae: Papilionoideae), an endemic legume of Western Ghats. Phytotaxa 594 (2): 153-157, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.594.2.7, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.594.2.7
0E714A09E14A0D3AFF11FDC20842FB97.taxon	description	Description: — A much branched trailing herb, up to 35 cm long, covered with brown silky hairs. Stem prostrate, terete, slender, densely hairy. Leaves membranous, simple, alternate, sub-sessile, 0.6 – 2 × 0.4 – 0.9 cm, elliptic or obovate, base acute, margin entire, apex round, mucronate, sparsely hairy above, densely hairy below; midrib impressed above and raised below; lateral nerves 4 – 5 pairs, indistinct. Stipules absent. Inflorescence terminal, 4 – 8 flowered raceme with a short peduncle which looks like a capitulum; peduncle 1 – 2 (– 6) mm long, hairy. Flowers pedicellate, bracteate; pedicel 3 – 4 mm long, hairy. Bracts 2, equal, 1.3 – 1.5 × 0.2 – 0.4 cm, lanceolate, acuminate at apex, hairy outside, glabrous inside, persistent; bracteoles 2, similar to bracts, 0.9 – 1 cm long. Calyx bilipped, 5 - lobed, lobes unequal, free near to the base, 1.5 – 1.7 × 0.3 – 0.4 cm, hairy outside, glabrous inside; upper lip 2 - lobed, lanceolate, apex acute; lower lip 3 - lobed, linear, acuminate at apex. Corolla as long as the calyx, yellow; standard 0.9 – 1.2 × 0.9 – 1.0 cm, obovate, glabrous except few hairs on the back; wing petals 0.7 – 0.9 × 0.2 – 0.3 cm, oblong, glabrous, keel 0.9 – 1.0 × 0.5 cm, beak of keel spirally twisted. Staminal sheath 0.6 cm long; filament glabrous; anthers dimorphic (5 + 5), 5 large, linear, ca. 1.5 mm, 5 small, globose, ca. 0.25 mm in diameter. Ovary 2.5 mm long, ovoid, glabrous; style ca. 6 mm long, hairy towards the apex; stigma blunt. Pods sessile, included in the calyx, 12 – 14 × 6 – 7 mm, oblong, tip hooked, blackish brown, glabrous. Seeds 12 – 15, reniform, ca. 2.5 × 2.5 mm, brown, smooth, polished.	en	Jabeena, Manjakulam Khadhersha, Prabhukumar, Konickal Mambetta, Maya, Chandrashekaran Nair, Sunil, Chandrasseril Narayanan, Balachandran, Indira (2023): Revisiting the taxonomy of Crotalaria priestleyoides (Fabaceae: Papilionoideae), an endemic legume of Western Ghats. Phytotaxa 594 (2): 153-157, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.594.2.7, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.594.2.7
0E714A09E14A0D3AFF11FDC20842FB97.taxon	biology_ecology	Phenology: — October to December. Habitat: — The species is found among exposed grasslands above at an altitude of 1300 m along with other legumes such as Crotalaria nana Burm. f. (1768: 48), C. multiflora Benth. (1843: 478) and Flemingia strobilifera (Linnaeus 1753: 746) W. T. Aiton (1812: 350) etc.	en	Jabeena, Manjakulam Khadhersha, Prabhukumar, Konickal Mambetta, Maya, Chandrashekaran Nair, Sunil, Chandrasseril Narayanan, Balachandran, Indira (2023): Revisiting the taxonomy of Crotalaria priestleyoides (Fabaceae: Papilionoideae), an endemic legume of Western Ghats. Phytotaxa 594 (2): 153-157, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.594.2.7, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.594.2.7
0E714A09E14A0D3AFF11FDC20842FB97.taxon	distribution	Distribution: — The plant is native and endemic to the Western Ghats with distribution in the states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.	en	Jabeena, Manjakulam Khadhersha, Prabhukumar, Konickal Mambetta, Maya, Chandrashekaran Nair, Sunil, Chandrasseril Narayanan, Balachandran, Indira (2023): Revisiting the taxonomy of Crotalaria priestleyoides (Fabaceae: Papilionoideae), an endemic legume of Western Ghats. Phytotaxa 594 (2): 153-157, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.594.2.7, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.594.2.7
0E714A09E14A0D3AFF11FDC20842FB97.taxon	materials_examined	Specimens examined: — INDIA. Karnataka: Kulhutty, Bababudan hills, 6000 ft., October 1908, A. Meebold 9581 (CAL). T amil Nadu: Nilgiri, Coimbatore district, Bellaji, 5000 ft., 17 November 1906, C. E. C. Fischer 1301 (DD); Doddabetta, 5000 ft., 29 November 1906, C. E. C. Fischer 1295 (CAL); Kerala: Travancore, Kumili, 4000 ft., December 1910, A. Meebold 869 (DD 13062). Palakkad district, Nelliyampathy hills, Hill top, 17 August 2014, K. M. Prabhukumar 8736 (CMPR); Palakkad district, Nelliyampathy hills, Hill top, 20 January 2018, Jabeena M. K. & Maya C. Nair 1110 (GVCH); 01 February 2020, Jabeena M. K. & Maya C. Nair 3988 (GVCH).	en	Jabeena, Manjakulam Khadhersha, Prabhukumar, Konickal Mambetta, Maya, Chandrashekaran Nair, Sunil, Chandrasseril Narayanan, Balachandran, Indira (2023): Revisiting the taxonomy of Crotalaria priestleyoides (Fabaceae: Papilionoideae), an endemic legume of Western Ghats. Phytotaxa 594 (2): 153-157, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.594.2.7, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.594.2.7
