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Taxon

Crotalaria spectabilis Roth

Protologue Nov. Pl. Sp. 341. 1821 [Apr 1821]BHL pageIPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Crotalaria spectabilis--Kenya. Limuru.  Brackenhurst Bot. Gard. 12 Jul 04. 023.jpg

Crotalaria spectabilis--Kenya. Limuru. Brackenhurst Bot. Gard. 12 Jul 04. 023.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Crotalaria spectabilis--Kenya. Limuru.  Brackenhurst Bot. Gard. 12 Jul 04. 024.jpg

Crotalaria spectabilis--Kenya. Limuru. Brackenhurst Bot. Gard. 12 Jul 04. 024.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Crotalaria spectabilis--Kenya. Limuru.  Brackenhurst Bot. Gard. 12 Jul 04. 020.jpg

Crotalaria spectabilis--Kenya. Limuru. Brackenhurst Bot. Gard. 12 Jul 04. 020.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Crotalaria spectabilis--Kenya. Limuru.  Brackenhurst Bot. Gard. 12 Jul 04. 021.jpg

Crotalaria spectabilis--Kenya. Limuru. Brackenhurst Bot. Gard. 12 Jul 04. 021.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Crotalaria spectabilis--Kenya. Limuru.  Brackenhurst Bot. Gard. 12 Jul 04. 022.jpg

Crotalaria spectabilis--Kenya. Limuru. Brackenhurst Bot. Gard. 12 Jul 04. 022.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicobar Is., Pakistan, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya; introduced into 66 botanical countries across Africa, Tropical Asia, Australasia, Pacific, Northern America, and Southern America (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.

Distribution

Showing the global range from POWO; no georeferenced specimens for this taxon.

Distribution from Plants of the World Online (POWO). View the accepted name on POWO

Occurrences

No collection number

July 12, 2004

Location

Kenya, Kiambu, Limuru (Brackenhurst Botanic Garden)

Location Remarks

Town of Limuru, about 30 miles northwest of Nairobi.

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Fabales

Family

Fabaceae

Genus

Crotalaria

Specific Epithet

spectabilis

Authorship

Roth

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 0.3

Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.

Threat status

Predicted not threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

0.0

Global rank

#320,244 of 335,497

Top 96%

Extinction probability

10%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →