Fabaceae
Tephrosia

Tephrosia nyikensis Baker

First published in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1897: 257 (1897)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Kenya to S. Tropical Africa. It is an annual or perennial 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]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Lake Victoria regional transition zone; grasslands, Afromontane grassland, Zambezian bushland and thicket, Zambezian grassland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Herb/Shrub
[ILDIS]

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

Morphology General Habit
A softly woody short-lived perennial up to 2 m. tall.
Diagnostic
Differs from T. elata and T. heckmanniana in the dense pseudoracemes, shorter than the peduncles, the bracts more often broadly lanceolate or ovate, the hairs on the calyx and pod longer, often of a darker, more brownish yellow, the upper half of the style linear, 0.5–0.6 mm. wide, very shortly pubescent on the upper (adaxial) surface and margins only, glabrous on the lower (abaxial) surface, and the larger aril (± 1.2 mm. long by 0.4 mm. thick).
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
The inflorescence is often branched, the branches arising in the axils of simple bracts.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
The pod is up to 8 cm. long.
[FTEA]

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

  • 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