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Tephrosia senticosa

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Identification
Cracca senticosa L. [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Tephrosia senticosa (L.) Pers. [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Henry Trimen, Tephrosia senticosa (L.) Pers. [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Velva Elaine Rudd,
Related name
  • Tephrosia subtriflora
  • Tephrosia senticosa
  • Cracca senticosa

Flora

Entry for TEPHROSIA pentaphylla (Roxb.) G. Don [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin (Acacia by M. Thulin, A. S. Hassan & B. T. Styles) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
TEPHROSIA pentaphylla (Roxb.) G. Don [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1839). Fig. 215 C.
TEPHROSIA decidua Steud. ex A. Rich. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1847).
TEPHROSIA similis Chiov. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1932);. types: S3, Gorini 53 & Senni 489 (both FT syn.).
TEPHROSIA senticosa [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], sensu Cuf. Enum. (1955) in part, non (L.) Pers.
Information
Annual or short-lived perennial, up to 80 cm tall. Leaf-rhachis, including a petiole of c. 2 mm, up to 1 cm long. Leaflets 3–7, usually 5, cuneate-oblanceolate, up to 22(–50) x 7(–13) mm, glabrous above, silvery beneath. Flowers red, 1–3 together in the leaf-axils. Calyx silvery, 5–6 mm long with triangular-acuminate lobes, 3–4 mm long. Standard fulvous-silvery, c. 6 mm long. Style glabrous, not twisted, c. 2 mm long. Pod somewhat upcurved towards the tip, 4–4.5 x 0.4 cm, pubescent, brownish on the sutures. Seeds 7–8, 3–4 x 2–2.5 mm.
Range
S2, 3
Altitude range
up to c. 100 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Elmi & Rodol 549; Thulin & Warfa 4475; Lobin 6916.
Distribution (external)
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Sudan
N Uganda
Kenya
Tanzania
Mozambique
Arabia
S India

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