Tephrosia
Tephrosia
EOL Text
Much-branched small shrub, usually less than 2 m tall. Leaves pinnate with 6-9 pairs of leaflets and a terminal leaflet.Branches and leaves covered in rusty-brown hairs. Flowers in well-spaced terminal racemes, purple; calyx densely hairy. Pods flat, strongly curved upwards, covered in rusty hairs. Var. evansii, in Zimbabwe, is only found in the South and can be distinguished by the hairs being greyish and the slightly larger pods.
Annual or perennial herbs or shrubs. Hairs basifixed. Leaves usually imparipinnate, rarely palmate or 1-foliolate; leaflets opposite or subopposite, often silky, entire, usually narrowed at base and widest above middle, often with a prominent marginal nerve. Flowers 2 or more together in leaf axils or at the nodes of pseudoracemes, which are sometimes condensed and appearing subcapitate or subumbellate. Calyx 5-lobed, the upper 2 lobes often ± united. Corolla usually reddish-purple; standard pubescent outside. Upper filament lightly attached to others, less often free; other filaments fused for 2/3 to 4/5 of their length. Ovary pubescent, sessile. Pod linear or oblong, ± flattened, beaked, usually dehiscent. Seeds may be longitudinal (long axis parallel to that of pod), transverse or oblique. Aril almost 0 to well-developed.
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ |
Rights holder/Author | Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings, Flora of Zimbabwe |
Source | http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=726 |
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