Fabaceae
Tephrosia

Tephrosia cephalophora Harms

First published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 28: 403 (1900)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tanzania. It grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/179468/1579557

Conservation
EN - endangered
[IUCN]

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: threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

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

Morphology General Habit
Stems several, up to 30 cm. long, erect from a short-lived woody rootstock, densely hispid with fulvous stiffly spreading hairs up to 2 mm. long.
Morphology Leaves
Leaf-rhachis fulvous hirsute, 2–3 cm. long, including a petiole of ± 1 cm., prolonged 0–2 mm. beyond lateral leaflets; stipules linear-filiform, hispid, with one very distinct central nerve, up to 14 mm. long; leaflets 5–11, linear -oblanceolate, rounded or acute at apex, up to 4 cm. long and 6 mm. wide, glabrous above, hirsute beneath; main nerves ± 8 on each side, midrib prominent and fulvous beneath.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers dull red in a dense terminal sessile subcapitate pseudoraceme; pedicels hirsute, ± 7 mm. long; bracts linear.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx hirsute, the hairs 1.5 mm. long; tube 2 mm. long; teeth lanceolate, long-acuminate, up to 6 mm. long, the upper pair free to the base.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard silky fulvous outside, 14 mm. long, including a 4 mm. claw, the blade elliptic, narrowed gradually at the base, 8 mm. wide; keel glabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
Upper filament lightly attached, widened, but not callous or bent, 1.5 mm. above the base; filament-sheath 7 mm., free parts 2–3 mm., anthers 0.6 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
Ovules ± 6; style glabrous, gently curved throughout its length, ± 4 mm. long, penicillate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod (immature) spreading horizontally, ± 2 cm. long, densely hirsute, silvery at the sides, brown at the sutures.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds unknown.
Habitat
Upland grassland and “light bush”; 1700–1900 m.; rainfall 900–1200 mm.
Distribution
not known elsewhere T4 T7
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Afromontane grassland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Herb
[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

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/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 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

  • World Checklist of Vascular plants (WCVP)

    • 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