Crotalaria

Genus: Crotalaria

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About 600 species, native mainly to the tropics and subtropics, with 110 species native to southern Africa, four species naturalised, and a further six species that are cultivated in the region.

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of southern Africa - an online checklist (SANBI), Flora of Zimbabwe and Flora of Mozambique.

Crotalaria abbreviata Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria alexandri Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Crotalaria anisophylla Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria anthyllopsis
Crotalaria argyraea
Crotalaria aurea
Crotalaria barkae
Crotalaria bequaertii Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria barnabassii
Crotalaria bernieri Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Crotalaria brachycarpa
Crotalaria burkeana
Crotalaria calycina Recorded from Mozambique.
Crotalaria capensis [= Crotalaria cecilea]
Crotalaria caudata Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria cephalotes Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Crotalaria chirindae Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Crotalaria cleomifolia Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Crotalaria collina Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Crotalaria colorata
Crotalaria coluteoides
Crotalaria cuneiformis
Crotalaria cupricola Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria cylindrostachys Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria damarensis Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Crotalaria deserticola Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria diffusa
Crotalaria dinteri
Crotalaria distans
Crotalaria doidgeae
Crotalaria dura
Crotalaria effusa
Crotalaria eremicola
Crotalaria excisa
Crotalaria filicaulis Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria flavicarinata [= Crotalaria cataractarum]
Crotalaria gazensis
Crotalaria glauca Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Crotalaria globifera [= Crotalaria cinerea]
Crotalaria goodiiformis Recorded from Mozambique.
Crotalaria goreensis Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria grandistipulata Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria griquensis
Crotalaria heidmannii
Crotalaria humilis
Crotalaria grandistipulata Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria heidmannii Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria hyssopifolia Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Crotalaria incana Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Crotalaria incompta
Crotalaria insignis Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Crotalaria inyangensis Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria kapiriensis Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria kipandensis Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria kuiririensis Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria kurtii
Crotalaria laburnifolia [= Crotalaria australis] See Flora of Zimbabwe, where it is split into two subspecies: C. l. australis and C. l. laburnifolia.
Crotalaria laburnoides Recorded from Mozambique.
Crotalaria lachnocarpoides Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Crotalaria lachnophora Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Crotalaria lanceolata
Crotalaria lebeckioides
Crotalaria leubnitziana
Crotalaria longidens
Crotalaria lotoides
Crotalaria macrocarpa
Crotalaria microcarpa Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria meyeriana
Crotalaria mocubensis Recorded from Mozambique.
Crotalaria mollii
Crotalaria monophylla
Crotalaria monteiroi [= Crotalaria breyeri]
Crotalaria natalensis
Crotalaria natalitia
Crotalaria obscura
Crotalaria ochroleuca
Crotalaria orientalis [= Crotalaria allenii]
Crotalaria pallida
Crotalaria pallidicaulis Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Crotalaria pearsonii
Crotalaria phylicoides Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique. See Flora of Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria pisicarpa
Crotalaria platysepala [= Crotalaria apiculata]
Crotalaria polysperma Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Crotalaria podocarpa [= Crotalaria belchii]
Crotalaria recta
Crotalaria reptans Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria rhodesiae
Crotalaria rogersii Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria schinzii
Crotalaria schlechteri
Crotalaria senegalensis [= Crotalaria carinata]
Crotalaria sericifolia
Crotalaria serpentinicola Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria shirensis Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria sparsifolia Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria spartea
Crotalaria spartioides
Crotalaria sphaerocarpa [= Crotalaria cernua]
Crotalaria spinosa Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria steudneri
Crotalaria stolzii Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria subcapitata Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria teixeirae
Crotalaria ulbrichiana
Crotalaria valida Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Crotalaria variegata Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Crotalaria vasculosa
Crotalaria virgulata
Crotalaria virgultalis

Species naturalised in southern Africa

List from Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI).

Crotalaria agatiflora Native to tropical Africa.
Crotalaria brevidens Native to tropical Africa.
Crotalaria juncea (Bombay hemp, Sunn hemp) Possibly native to India.
Crotalaria spectabilis Native to India.

Other species, cultivated in southern Africa

List from Glen (2002).

Crotalaria alata Native to Nepal.
Crotalaria comosa Native to tropical Africa.
Crotalaria goetzei Native to tropical Africa.
Crotalaria incana Native to the tropics.
Crotalaria lunata Native to southern India.
Crotalaria orthoclada Native to tropical Africa.

Publications

Glen, H.F. 2002. Cultivated Plants of Southern Africa. Jacana, Johannesburg.