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Taxon:  Crotalaria alata Buch.-Ham.



Summary
Genus:
Crotalaria
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Crotalarieae
Nomen number:
12281
Place of publication:
D. Don, Prodr. fl. nepal. 241. 1825 (ex W. Roxburgh, Hort. bengal. 98. 1814, nom. nud.)
Verified:
09/12/2005 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
2 (2  active, 1  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images


Reference(s)
  1. Aubréville, A. et al., eds. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam. 1960-
  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. 1959-
  3. Du Puy, D. J. et al. The Leguminosae of Madagascar. 2002
  4. Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. 1984-
  5. Hara, H. et al. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. 1978-1982
  6. Hnatiuk, R. J. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11. 1990
  7. Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang. Taxonomic treatment of the Papilionoideae (Leguminosae) of Taiwan. Taiwania 32:11-117. 1987
  8. Kumar, S & P. V. Sane. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist. 2003
  9. Lock, J. M. & C. S. Ford. Legumes of Malesia: a checklist. 2004
  10. Lock, J. M. & J. Heald. Legumes of Indochina: a checklist. 1994
  11. Lock, J. M. Legumes of Africa: a checklist. 1989
  12. Niyomdham, C. 1978. A revision of the genus Crotalaria Linn. (Papilionaceae) in Thailand. Thai Forest Bull., Bot. 11:119.
  13. Polhill, R. M. 1982. Crotalaria in Africa and Madagascar. 1982 372.
  14. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  15. Sanjappa, M. Legumes of India. 1992
  16. Subramaniam, B. & C. R. Babu. 1994. New nodulating legumes of potential agricultural and forestry value from subtropical Himalayan ecosystems. Biol. Agric. Hort. 10:297-302.
  17. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952-
  18. Uphof, J. C. T. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. 1968
  19. Verdcourt, B. A manual of New Guinea legumes. 1979
  20. Yang, C. Y. 1983. On the problems of the classification of Crotalaria in China. Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 3(4):105.
Common names
English
winged-stalk crotalaria –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaFujian 
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaGuangdong 
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaGuangxi 
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaHainan 
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaSichuan 
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaYunnan 
1NativeAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaTaiwan  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentBangladesh  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentBhutan  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaAndhra Pradesh 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaArunachal Pradesh 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaBihar 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaHaryana 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaHimachal Pradesh 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaKarnataka 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaMadhya Pradesh 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaManipur 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaMeghalaya 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaOrissa 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaPunjab 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaSikkim 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaTamil Nadu 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaTripura 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaUttar Pradesh 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaWest Bengal 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentNepal  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaCambodia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaLaos  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaMyanmar  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaThailand  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaVietnam  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaIndonesiaJava 
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaIndonesiaSumatra 
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaMalaysia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaPapua New Guinea  
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaNorthern Territory 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaQueensland 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaWestern Australia 
2Cultivated     
4Naturalized     
Native
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China [Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Sichuan, Yunnan]
  • EASTERN ASIA: Taiwan
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India [Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Orissa, Punjab, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal], Nepal
  • INDO-CHINA: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
  • MALESIA: Indonesia [Java, Sumatra], Malaysia, Papua New Guinea
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia [Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia]
Cultivated ()
Naturalized ()
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Environmentalerosion control Uphof, J. C. T. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. 1968
Environmentalsoil improver Uphof, J. C. T. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. 1968
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=12281. Accessed 10 January 2025.

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