Tephrosia rupicola J.B.Gillett

Species

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Characteristics

Leaves with (3)5–8 pairs of leaflets; petiole c.5 mm long, petiole and rachis brownish-pubescent or villous, hairs spreading or some appressed and others spreading; leaflets to 30(34) × 11(13) mm, oblanceolate to oblong-cuneate, obtuse to truncate at apex, shortly mucronate, margins flat, the upper surface appressed-pubescent or glabrous, the lower surface appressed-pubescent; stipules 2–4 mm broad, ovate-acuminate.
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Inflorescence rather lax, up to 15(20) cm long, sometimes the lower flowers subtended by foliage leaves; bracts up to 11 × 4 mm, narrowly triangular to ovate-acuminate; pedicels 4–7(10 in fruit) mm long, brown or grey, pubescent or villous.
Seeds 7–9, transversely elongate, nearly oblong in outline, rounded at the ends, slightly broader at the lower end, with a small hilum near the upper narrower end with a small white rim aril.
Calyx 7–11 mm long, of which the campanulate part is only 2–3 mm long, the two upper teeth joined in the lower ?, the whole grey or brown villous.
Young stem densely pubescent to villous with grey or brown, spreading or deflexed hairs.
Ovary densely villous along the sutures but the sides glabrous; style pubescent.
Pod 27–35 × 8–9 mm, the margins pubescent but the sides glabrous.
Petals 12–22 mm long, purple; standard suborbicular-cuneate.
Shrub up to 1 m high.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.0
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Usage

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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 rupicola world distribution map, present in Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:520882-1
WFO ID wfo-0000204186
COL ID 55D4B
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Tephrosia rupicola

Lower taxons

Tephrosia rupicola subsp. rupicola Tephrosia rupicola subsp. dreweana