Tephrosia festina Brummitt

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Tephrosia

Characteristics

Inflorescence in flower compact and subglobose, exceeded by the upper leaves, elongated to up to 10 cm in fruit; bracts large and conspicuous but soon falling, up to 14 × 12 mm, ± orbicular-acuminate, densely and shortly grey or brown tomentose.
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Calyx 9–12 mm long; teeth equalling or longer than the campanulate part, the two upper ones joined for most of their length to form an acute triangle with their apices free for only 1 mm.
Leaves pinnate with 7–13 pairs of leaflets; petiole and rachis shortly grey or brown tomentose; leaflets and stipules similar to those of T. praecana (see above).
Pods 52–60 × 7–8 mm, lanate-tomentose with the hairs grey at least at their tips.
Petals 13–17 mm long, purple; standard truncate to broadly cuneate at the base.
Young branches shortly grey or brown tomentose.
Ovary appressed-pubescent; style pubescent.
Stamen tube 9–10 mm long, fused above.
Shrub to 5 m high.
Seeds 5–6.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 5.0
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Environment

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Usage

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Edible -
Therapeutic use -
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 21 - 42
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 21
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment soaking
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Distribution

Tephrosia festina world distribution map, present in Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:520559-1
WFO ID wfo-0000202311
COL ID 55CTX
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Tephrosia festina