Taxon: Crotalaria pallida Aiton

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(as Crotalaria mucronata)°, FL(as Crotalaria striata)°, NC°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

See also subordinate taxa:

• Crotalaria pallida var. obovata (1 accessions)
• Crotalaria pallida var. pallida (no accessions)

Common names:

• Moreton Island rattlepod   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• salts rattlebox   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 11:103.) – English
  
• smooth crotalaria   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• smooth rattlebox   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 11:103.) – English
  
• streaked rattlepod   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• striped crotalaria   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• zhu shi dou   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• crotalaire mucronée   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• san   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – India
  
• crotalaria striata   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Crops US; Pl Res SEAs 11:103. 1997)
  
• Animal food: forage   (grazing fide Leg WorldEc)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: birds   (fide Kingsbury, as C. mucronata)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury, as C. mucronata)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide State Noxweed Seed)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Crotalaria pallida from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Ethiopia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Gabon; Rwanda; Sao Tome and Principe; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Burkina Faso; Cote D'Ivoire; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Liberia; Mali; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: South Africa - KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; Bhutan; India - Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, Pondicherry, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal; Pakistan
  North Indian Ocean: India - Andaman and Nicobar
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam

• widely naturalized elsewhere in tropics

• also cultivated

References:

• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
• Bernal M., H. Y. 1986. Crotalaria (Fabaceae - Faboideae). P. 4:49 in: Pinto, P. & P. M. Ruiz, eds., Flora de Colombia.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Du Puy, D. J. et al. 2002. The Leguminosae of Madagascar.
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance.
• Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds. 1997. Auxiliary plants. P. 103 in: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA).
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Kumar, S & P. V. Sane. 2003. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist.
• Lock, J. M. & C. S. Ford. 2004. Legumes of Malesia: a checklist.
• Lock, J. M. & J. Heald. 1994. Legumes of Indochina: a checklist.
• Lock, J. M. 1989. Legumes of Africa: a checklist.
• Magness, J. R. et al. 1971. Food and feed crops of the United States. IR Bull. 1.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Niyomdham, C. 1978. A revision of the genus Crotalaria Linn. (Papilionaceae) in Thailand. Thai Forest Bull., Bot. 11:149.
• Polhill, R. M. 1982. Crotalaria in Africa and Madagascar.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• 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.
• Thulin, M. 1983. Leguminosae of Ethiopia. Opera Bot. 68:1-223.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Verdcourt, B. 1979. A manual of New Guinea legumes.
• Yang, C. Y. 1983. On the problems of the classification of Crotalaria in China. Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 3(4):102.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Crotalaria pallida.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Crotalaria pallida.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Crotalaria pallida.

Synonyms:

• (=) Crotalaria brownei Bertero ex DC.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Crotalaria falcata Vahl ex DC. [= Crotalaria pallida var. obovata]
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (=) Crotalaria mucronata Desv.
  (previously associated with 7 accessions)
• Crotalaria obovata G. Don [≡ Crotalaria pallida var. obovata]
  
• (=) Crotalaria striata DC.
  (previously associated with 18 accessions)

Check other web resources for Crotalaria pallida Aiton:

• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• 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.

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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