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Tephrosia margenella H.M.L.Forbes

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Tephrosia

Characteristics

Suffrutex, up to 0.33 m high; rootstock woody; stems decumbent, slender, flexuous, thinly appressed-pubescent. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 15-100 mm long, mucro recurved, venation conspicuous, pinnately parallel and straw-coloured, margins thickened and straw-coloured, upper surface glabrous, lower surface appressed-pubescent; petiolate. Stipules linear. Inflorescence laxly racemose, 1-or 2-flowered on long peduncles. Flowers pink. Calyx with lobes linear-subulate. Petals: standard suborbicular, silky on outside. Flowering time Dec.-Mar. Pod 45 x 3 mm, linear, thinly pubescent.
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Stems ascending, flexuous, simple or branching a little, slender, thinly appressedly pubescent, up to 33 cm high. Leaves simple, linear to linear-lanceolate, 1.5-10 cm long, 1.2 cm broad; glabrous above, thinly appressedly pubescent below, mucronate, margins thickened and straw-coloured, petiole striate, channelled above, sparsely pubescent, 0.6-3 cm long. Stipules linear, 4.5 mm long; pedicels 3 mm long. Calyx-teeth equalling or longer than the tube; linear-subulate. Style glabrous. Legume linear, thinly pubescent, 4.5 cm long, 0.3 cm broad.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.33
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Cultivation

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

Tephrosia margenella world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:520722-1
WFO ID wfo-0000203209
COL ID 55CY8
BDTFX ID -
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Synonyms

Tephrosia margenella
WorldFloraDB 2024