Fabaceae
Tephrosia

Tephrosia bracteolata Guill. & Perr.

First published in Fl. Seneg. Tent.: 194 (1832)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Cape Verde, Tropical Africa. It is an annual and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Leguminosae, J. B. Gillett, R. M. Polhill & B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1971

Morphology General Habit
Annual herb up to 2 or 3 m. tall from a taproot; hairs on stems appressed or spreading, up to 1 mm. long, white or fulvous.
Morphology Leaves
Leaf-rhachis up to 25 cm. long, including a petiole of ± 1 cm., prolonged 1–3 mm. beyond lateral leaflets; stipules up to 3 mm. broad at base, triangular, acuminate, up to 1 cm. long, often reflexed; petiolules ± 2 mm. long; leaflets 17–31, linear-oblong, up to 11 cm. long and 1 cm. wide, truncate and apiculate at the tip, glabrous above, appressed silky pilose beneath.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers mauve in moderately dense terminal pseudoracemes, on stout peduncles often longer than themselves, rarely 1 or 2 flowers in upper leaf-axils; pedicels ± 6 mm. long; bracts very caducous, ovate or ovate-lanceolate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx brown pubescent; tube ± 2 mm. long; lowest tooth 3.5 mm., lateral ± 1 mm., upper pair ± 2.7 mm., more than half united.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard silky brown pubescent outside, ± 16 × 11 mm.; keel glabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
Upper filament slightly attached, widened and bent 1 mm. above base; filament-sheath 13 mm., free parts 3–4 mm., anthers 0.9 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Style
Style pubescent, ± 5 mm. long, bent through ± 75° 1 mm. above base, slightly widened near the tip, not penicil-late.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod ascending, up to 7.5 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, greenish-brown, with short stiff spreading hairs, brownish on the sutures, slightly upcurved towards the straight tip, the false septa between the seeds rather oblique.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds 13–16, marbled, longitudinal, ± 2.5 by 2 mm.; hilum one-third along the side, hardly arillate.
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Sudanian grasslands, Zambezian grassland
Morphology General Habit
Annual, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

Papilionaceae, Hutchinson and Dalziel. Flora of West Tropical Africa 1:2. 1958

Morphology General Habit
An erect branched undershrub, usually 2–3 ft. high, but sometimes up to 8 ft. high
Morphology Branches
Long straight thinly silky branches
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Bright pink to purple flowers
Ecology
In open country.
[FWTA]

Uses

Use
Forage
[ILDIS]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of West Tropical Africa

    • Flora of West Tropical Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • International Legume Database and Information Service

    • International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0