Tephrosia

Tephrosia pentaphylla (Roxb.) G.Don

First published in R.Sweet, Hort. Brit., ed. 3: 170 (1839)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Eritrea to Mozambique, S. Arabian Peninsula, India. 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]

M. Thulin. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1–4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS

Morphology General Habit
Annual or short-lived perennial, up to 80 cm tall
Morphology Leaves
Leaf-rhachis, including a petiole of c. 2 mm, up to 1 cm long
Morphology Leaves Leaflets
Leaflets 3–7, usually 5, cuneate-oblanceolate, up to 22(–50) x 7(–13) mm, glabrous above, silvery beneath
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers red, 1–3 together in the leaf-axils
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx silvery, 5–6 mm long with triangular-acuminate lobes, 3–4 mm long
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard fulvous-silvery, c. 6 mm long
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Style
Style glabrous, not twisted, c. 2 mm long
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod somewhat upcurved towards the tip, 4–4.5 x 0.4 cm, pubescent, brownish on the sutures
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds 7–8, 3–4 x 2–2.5 mm.
[FSOM]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Morphology General Habit
Annual, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • 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

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • 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