WorldFloraDB - Tephrosia macropoda

Characteristics

Stems several from a large tuberous root-stock, procumbent, more or less robust, up to 3 feet long. Leaves 1-3-jugate, 6-14.5 cm long, petioles usually long before first pair of leaflets; leaflets narrow to broadly elliptical or oblong, glabrous above, pubescent or glabrescent below, 2-6.5 cm long, 0.6-3 cm broad. Stipules broadly cordate-ovate, 0.5-1.2 cm long, 0.5-1 cm broad. Peduncles terminal and leaf-opposed, up to 48 cm long, few-flowered at apex; bracts broadly ovate, bilobed at apex, soon caducous, 0.7-1.3 cm long. Flowers large, 1.4-2.2 cm long. Calyx-teeth linear to linear-lanceolate, longer than tube. Style bearded. Legumes linear, flattened, glabrous, hirsute along sutures, up to 6 cm long and 0.8 cm broad.

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Procumbent, ± robust, perennial herb, 0.06-2.00 m long; rootstock tuberous. Leaves 1-3-jugate, long-petioled. Leaflets narrowly to widely elliptic, up to 65 mm long, pinnately parallel-veined, vein ends looping at margin; upper surface glabrous; lower surface pubescent. Stipules widely cordate-ovate. Inflorescences: peduncles terminal or leaf-opposed, up to 480 mm long, few-flowered at apex; bracts bilobed, widely ovate. Flowers white with purple insect traces or pink to purple. Calyx: lobes triangular, apex acute, unequal. Style pubescent. Flowering time Sept.-Apr. Pod up to 60 x 8 mm, linear, flattened, glabrous, hirsute along sutures.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	herb
Growth support	free-standing
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Sexuality	hermaphrodite
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Nitrogen fixer	rhizobia
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Usage

Uses	medicinal
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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

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:520715-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000203147
COL ID	55CXY
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Synonyms

Tephrosia diffusa Tephrosia macropoda Cracca macropoda Apodynomene macropoda

Lower taxons

Tephrosia macropoda var. diffusa Tephrosia macropoda var. macropoda

WorldFloraDB 2024

Tephrosia macropoda (E.Mey.) Harv.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Tephrosia