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Taxon: Crotalaria spectabilis Roth

Genus: Crotalaria
Family: Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae) subfamily: Faboideae tribe: Crotalarieae. Also placed in: Papilionaceae
Nomen number: 12384
Place of publication: Nov. pl. sp. 341. 1821
Name verified on: 12-Sep-2005 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 12-Sep-2005
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9).
Accessions: 12 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:
FL°, HI°, NC°, TN°.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

Common names:

  • rattlebox   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  • showy crotalaria   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • showy rattlebox   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 11:105.) – English
  • crotalaire remarquable   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
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Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; India - Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal; Nepal; Pakistan
    North Indian Ocean: India - Andaman and Nicobar
    Indo-China: Myanmar; Thailand
    Malesia: Malaysia [Malaya]

      Naturalized:
  • naturalized throughout tropics

References:

  • Bernal M., H. Y. 1986. Crotalaria (Fabaceae - Faboideae). In: Pinto, P. & P. M. Ruiz, eds., Flora de Colombia. (F Colomb) 4:93.
  • Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance. (Leg WorldEc)
  • Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds. 1997. Auxiliary plants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 11:105–107.
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. (F Bhutan)
  • Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • Kumar, S & P. V. Sane. 2003. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist. (Leg SAsia)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Liogier, A. H. 1981–. Flora of Hispaniola: Part 1; La Flora de la Española. Part II-. (F Hispan)
  • Lock, J. M. & C. S. Ford. 2004. Legumes of Malesia: a checklist. (Leg Malesia)
  • Lock, J. M. & J. Heald. 1994. Legumes of Indochina: a checklist. (Leg Indochina)
  • Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
  • Matos G., F. 1978. El género Crotalaria en Venezuela. Acta Bot. Venez. 13:94.
  • Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
  • National Herbarium of New South Wales. 1961–1984. Flora of New South Wales. (F NSW)
  • Niyomdham, C. 1978. A revision of the genus Crotalaria Linn. (Papilionaceae) in Thailand. Thai Forest Bull., Bot. 11:155.
  • Polhill, R. M. 1982. Crotalaria in Africa and Madagascar. (Crot Afr Madag) 373.
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)
  • Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. (F VenGuay)
  • Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
  • Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama. (F Panama)
  • Yang, C. Y. 1983. On the problems of the classification of Crotalaria in China. Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 3(4):106.
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Check other databases for Crotalaria spectabilis Roth:

  • ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images or nodulation data:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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