Tephrosia anomala Thulin

First published in Nordic J. Bot. 10: 273 (1990)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Somalia. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the desert or dry shrubland 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]

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

Morphology General Habit
Shrub; young stems densely pubescent with short spreading hairs
Morphology Leaves
Leaf-rhachis 2–8 cm long including a petiole of 0.5–1 cm
Morphology Leaves Leaflets
Leaflets 7–13, narrowly obovate or obcordate, up to 25 x 11 mm, sparsely and finely pubescent above, densely pubescent beneath
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers apparently yellowish, in terminal and leaf-opposed pseudoracemes, and some also in upper leaf-axils
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx tomentose, c. 9 mm long, with narrowly triangular lobes, the lowest c. 5.5 mm long
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard sericeous, c. 20–23 x 12–13 mm
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Style
Style c. 10 mm long, with up to 1 mm long slender spreading hairs, gradually tapering towards the very slender terete strongly upcurved tip
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod unknown.
[FSOM]

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

  • 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