Tephrosia kalamboensis Brummitt & J.B.Gillett

First published in Kew Bull. 25: 178 (1971)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tanzania. It 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: threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

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

Morphology General Habit
Erect herb about 60 cm. tall.
Morphology Stem
Stems, leaf-rhachides and undersurface of leaflets densely covered with short silvery appressed hairs.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 5–7-foliolate, some of the upper ones 1–3-foliolate; stipules triangular, up to 5 mm. long and 1.2 mm. wide; rhachis up to 3.5 cm. long, including a petiole of 2–4 mm., not, or by only 1–2 mm., prolonged beyond lateral leaflets; leaflets elliptic- or linear-oblong, up to 55 mm. long and 9 mm. wide, acute, rounded or retuse at the apex, glabrous above.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers pale mauve in shortly pedunculate moderately dense terminal and axillary pseudoracemes, a few also in the axils of the upper reduced leaves; bracts narrowly triangular, up to 7 mm. long and 1 mm. wide; pedicels up to 4 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx silvery, the teeth brownish silky; tube 4 mm. long; teeth triangular-acuminate, the upper pair free from each other, 4 mm. long, the lowest 6 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard golden-brown silky outside, 17 mm. long, 15 mm. wide; wings and keel glabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
Upper filament free, abruptly widened and thickened 1 mm. above the base; filament-sheath 12 mm., free parts 2 mm., anthers 0.9 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
Ovary with a 1 mm. stipe, ± 8 mm. long, densely silky; style tapering, not flattened, 9 mm. long, gently curved 4 mm. above the base, long-pubescent on its inner (adaxial) surface, very shortly pubescent on the distal part of the abaxial surface; stigma capitate; ovules 5–6.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Very young fruit ascending, densely silky tomentose.
Habitat
Deciduous woodland; 1350 m.; rainfall about 1000 mm.
Distribution
not known elsewhere T4
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian woodland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

Sources

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    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
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    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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    • 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