Crotalaria excisa

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Crotalaria excisa, photographed by linkie — fig. a linkie, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-02 / obs. 126917285

Crotalaria excisa, photographed by De Waal Hugo — fig. b De Waal Hugo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 97278490

Crotalaria excisa, photographed by Jeremy Gilmore — fig. c Jeremy Gilmore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 51430058

Crotalaria excisa, photographed by Diana Studer — fig. d Diana Studer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177125090

Crotalaria excisa, photographed by sharndreheuvel — fig. g sharndreheuvel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 59552192

Crotalaria excisa, photographed by Caroline Voget — fig. h Caroline Voget, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 23423289

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession: K000227113
Filed as: Crotalaria excisa subsp. namaquensis Polhill
Det. by: Polhill, R.M.
Collected: Bolus, H. 1883-01-01
Origin: ZA
The sheet: View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 1 botanical country

Native distribution of Crotalaria excisa, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Cape Provinces	CPP	AFRICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 9 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Crotalaria angustissima E.Mey.
Crotalaria diffusa E.Mey.
Crotalaria eckloniana C.Presl
Crotalaria thunbergiana Vogel ex Walp.
Lotononis diffusa Eckl. & Zeyh.
Lotononis racemosa (Thunb.) D.Dietr.
Ononis excisa Thunb.
Ononis geminata Aiton
Ononis racemosa Thunb.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.