Fabaceae
Tephrosia
Tephrosia purpurea

Tephrosia purpurea subsp. purpurea

This subspecies is accepted
The native range of this subspecies is W. Tropical Africa to Arabian Peninsula and Angola, Comoros, Madagascar, Tropical & Subtropical Asia to S. Pacific. It is an annual, perennial or subshrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Morphology General Habit
Annual/Perennial, Not climbing, Herb/Shrub
Vernacular
Dhamasia, Indigo Rouge, Indigo Sauvage, Sarphonka, Wild Indigo
[ILDIS]

Uses

Use
Chemical products, Environmental, Food and Drink, Forage, Medicine, Toxins, Weed
[ILDIS]

Sources

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/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