Tephrosia zambiana Brummitt

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Tephrosia

Characteristics

Leaves predominantly 3-foliolate but some very small lower leaves unifoliolate or upper leaves 5-foliolate; petiole and rachis together up to 2 cm long, the rachis usually distinctly longer than the petiole, similar in pubescence to the stem; leaflets up to 5.5 × 1.1 cm, the terminal one slightly larger than the others, ± narrowly oblong, cuneate to rather strongly inrolled above at the base, obtuse to emarginate at the apex, the upper surface glabrous, the lower surface densely silky whitish appressed-pubescent and subsericeous when young; stipules c.6 × 0.8 mm, linear-triangular, pubescent on outer surface.
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Flowers in terminal racemes with at least 5–8 distinct nodes, clearly exceeding the uppermost leaves, or sometimes with the lowermost flowers in the axil of the one or two uppermost leaves; bracts resembling the stipules; pedicels 3–7 mm long, tomentose.
Calyx 9–11 mm long, whitish appressed-tomentose, the teeth 5–7 mm long, subequal, 1.5–2 times as long as the tube, the two upper ones joined for about ? of their length, the lower one ± channelled and somewhat upwardly curved at its tip.
Petals 18–20 mm long, probably purplish or the keel whitish; standard suborbicular, broadly cuneate towards the claw.
Suffrutex with herbaceous unbranched stems up to 35 cm high.
Staminal tube not fused above, the upper filament free.
Stems densely whitish appressed-pubescent.
Ovary ± tomentose; style pubescent.
Pods not seen.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.35
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

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Usage

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Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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

Tephrosia zambiana world distribution map, present in Zambia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:521013-1
WFO ID wfo-0000204585
COL ID 7C2CK
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Tephrosia zambiana