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Tephrosia stormsii

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Holotype of Tephrosia stormsii De Wild. [family FABACEAE]
Filed as Tephrosia stormsii De Wild. [family FABACEAE]
Paratype of Tephrosia paradoxa Brummitt [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAP]
Type of Tephrosia eyelsii Baker f. [family LEGUMINOSAE]
Paratype of Tephrosia paradoxa Brummitt [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAP]
Isotype of Tephrosia stormsii De Wild. var. pilosa [family LEGUMINOSAE]
Paratype of Tephrosia paradoxa Brummitt [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAP]
Isotype of Tephrosia paradoxa Brummitt [family FABACEAE]
Isotype of Tephrosia stormsii De Wild. var. pilosa Brummitt [family FABACEAE]
Holotype of Tephrosia stormsii De Wild. [family FABACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Tephrosia eyelsii Baker f. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Tephrosia stormsii DeWild. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Tephrosia paradoxa
  • Tephrosia eyelsii
  • Tephrosia stormsii

Flora

Entry for TEPHROSIA stormsii De Wild [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1971) Author: J. B. GILLETT, R. M. POLHILL & B. VERDCOURT
Names
TEPHROSIA stormsii De Wild [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot., sér. 4, 1: 189 (1903); Cronquist in F.C.B. 5: 106 (1954), pro majore parte; Brummitt in Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 41: 297 (1968). Type: Tanganyika, Mpanda District, Karema, Storms (BR, holo.!)
Information
Annual with a taproot and rather slender branched glabrous or sparsely hairy stems, up to 150 cm. tall. Leaves (l–)5–9(–13)-foliolate; stipules linear, up to 18 mm. long; rhachis sparsely pubescent, up to 18 cm. long, the petiole, except in the lower few-foliolate leaves, much shorter than the rest of the rhachis; leaflets linear to linear-oblong or the lower ones ± elliptic, up to 10 or sometimes 20 cm. long, usually under 5, sometimes up to 12, mm. wide, glabrous above, appressed pubescent beneath, the hairs not hiding the surface; lateral nerves very numerous. Flowers in long stiff lax terminal or axillary pseudoracemes, the leaves subtending the upper axillary pseudoracemes often reduced to bracts so that the inflorescence becomes compound; bracts narrowly triangular, 2–5 mm. long, caducous; pedicels 4–8 mm. Calyx pubescent, 3–6 mm. long; teeth triangular, about as long as the tube. Flowers and fruit as in T. lurida.

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