Native to: Aldabra, Angola, Borneo, Botswana, Burundi, Chad, China Southeast, Comoros, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, ...
Tephrosia pumila - Useful Tropical Plants
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Oct 13, 2024 · No Image. General Information. Tephrosia pumila is an annual herb or short-lived perennial, branched from the base, growing 30 - 60 cm tall[.
Indigo Sauvage is a prostrate velvet-hairy herb with compound leaves. Leaflets are up to 1.5 x 0.8 cm, obovate, with a short sharp point, base wedge-shaped, ...
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What is the common name for tephrosia pumila?
Tephrosia pumila - Indigo Sauvage. Indigo Sauvage is a prostrate velvet-hairy herb with compound leaves. Leaflets are up to 1.5 x 0.8 cm, obovate, with a short sharp point, base wedge-shaped, silky velvet-hairy; leaflet-stalk is up to 1 mm, stipule 5 mm, linear, hairy.
Is Tephrosia purpurea edible?
Tephrosia purpurea is a multipurpose legume. It is used as fodder but its value is debated, probably due to its poisonous content (rotenone and tephrosin). Its pounded leaves make a potent fish poison that is used for fishing.
What is tephrosia villosa used for?
Whole plant has been used to cure tumors, ulcers, leprosy, allergic and inflammatory conditions such as rheumatism, asthma and bronchitis. The aqueous extract of Tephrosia purpurea seeds has shown significant in vivo hypoglycemic activity in diabetic rabbits.
What is the use of purple tephrosia?
Tephrosia purpurea is used as a fish poison for fishing. Its leaves and seeds contain tephrosin, which paralyzes fish. Larger doses are lethal to fish, but mammals and amphibians are unaffected.
Herbs, annual or perennial, procumbent or straggling, 20-30 cm tall. Stems thin and hard, ridged, densely spreading strigose. Stipules 3-4 mm.
Tephrosia pumila (Lam.) Pers. = Cracca dichotoma (Desv.) Kuntze. = Galega ... Benth. = Tephrosia procumbens (Buch.-Ham.) Gamble. = Tephrosia pumila subsp.
Jan 22, 2024 · Natural History: Native Annual Herb. It is a creeping herb with velvety-hairy compound leaves, distributed from tropical Africa to northern ...
Tephrosia pumila (Lam.) Pers. var. pumila. We have few details about this taxon; if you can provide any information, photos or ...
Galega pumila Lamarck, Encycl. 2: 599. 1788. Herbs, annual or perennial, procumbent or straggling, 20-30 cm tall. Stems thin and hard, ridged, ...
Tephrosia pumila pumila is a variety of plants with 5 observations.
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