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0E714A09E14A0D3AFF11FDC20842FB97.text	0E714A09E14A0D3AFF11FDC20842FB97.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Crotalaria priestleyoides Bentham ex Beddome 1865	<html xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
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            <p> Crotalaria priestleyoides Benth. ex Beddome (1865: 214) . </p>
            <p>Figure 1.</p>
            <p> Type (neotype, here designated):— INDIA, Hab. Concan &amp; C., Herb Stocks s.n. (K000591060). Isoneotypes: P02750837, P02750839, P02750840, L1986583, M0219498, CAL 103418 (digital images!) . Figure 2 </p>
            <p>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.</p>
            <p>Phenology:— October to December.</p>
            <p> 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. </p>
            <p>Distribution:— The plant is native and endemic to the Western Ghats with distribution in the states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.</p>
            <p> 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 (DD13062) .   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. &amp; Maya C. Nair 1110 (GVCH)  ;  01 February 2020, Jabeena M. K. &amp; Maya C. Nair 3988 (GVCH) . </p>
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	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0E714A09E14A0D3AFF11FDC20842FB97	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Jabeena, Manjakulam Khadhersha;Prabhukumar, Konickal Mambetta;Maya, Chandrashekaran Nair;Sunil, Chandrasseril Narayanan;Balachandran, Indira	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
