*Crotalaria** pallida Aiton *Surajit ji - matches images in my collection also*.*
Regards, Samir Mehta* * On Thursday, November 15, 2012 7:35:45 AM UTC+5:30, surajitkoley wrote: > > Please read the subject line as 15/11/12 in place of 15/1/12 and Regards, > in place of Reagards... > > Thank you once again, > > Regards, > > surajit > > On Thursday, 15 November 2012 07:25:51 UTC+5:30, surajitkoley wrote: >> >> Good morning >> >> A net search for the *Crotalaria saltiana* takes me to *Crotalaria >> pallida*, and pictures tell me that my species might be the same, more >> so because Satish Sir has one at - >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/WD1eSIfaT0o/discussion. >> >> What FoC says about *C. pallida* ? - (Leaflets) apex obtuse to retuse; >> racemes terminal...... >> http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242315565 >> Well, my species shows the above characters! >> >> Let's see "Bengal Plants" (Prain), vol1, p 370-371; i copy a few lines :- >> >> Leaves digitately compound :- >> Leaflets almost always 5, sometimes 7, very rarely 3, narrowly linear >> or oblanceolate, obtuse; pod glabrous many-seeded, cylindric, shortly >> stalked ............... *quinquefolia* >> Leaflets *always 3, ovate or oblong* :- >> Pods oblong or cylindric, many-seeded :- >> >> Erect, shrubby; bracts minute setaceous; pods large :- >> Pods pubescent, subsessile :- >> Leaflets obovate, obtuse; pods loosely pubescent >> ....... *incana* >> Leaflets oblong, acute; pods densely pubescent >> ......... *bracteata* >> * Pods glabrous* :- >> *Pods subsessile* :- >> Leaflets *oblong, acute* ................... *Brownei* >> Leaflets *obovate, obtuse* ............ *Saltiana* >> Pods with a long, slender, filiform gynophore; leaflets >> obovate-oblong acute ......... *laburnifolia* >> * >> * >> Prostrate, diffuse, herbaceous ..................... etc etc >> >> According to The Plant List :- >> *Crotalaria brownei* DC. = *Crotalaria pallida* Aiton = >> http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/ild-26386 >> *Crotalaria saltiana* Andrews is different taxon = >> http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/ild-5497 = also in >> http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?12378 >> >> Found a picture of *C. saltiana* - >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/holudforing/6985903468/ >> >> Species : *Crotalaria saltiana* Andrews ? >> H & H : wild undershrub in a waste place, less than 2 feet >> Date : 12/11/12, 12.01 p.m. >> Place : Hooghly >> >> Thank you & Reagards, >> >> surajit >> >> --
