Fabaceae
Tephrosia
Tephrosia purpurea

Tephrosia purpurea subsp. apollinea (Delile) Hosni & El-Karemy

First published in Sendtnera 1: 248 (1993)
This subspecies is accepted
The native range of this subspecies is S. Egypt to Chad, Arabian Peninsula to NW. India. It is an annual, perennial or subshrub and grows primarily in the desert or dry shrubland biome.

Descriptions

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Herb/Shrub
[ILDIS]

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

Morphology General Habit
Annual or short-lived perennial, erect, up to 50 cm tall
Morphology Leaves
Leaf-rhachis up to 7 cm long, including a petiole of up to 2 cm
Morphology Leaves Leaflets
Leaflets 5–9(–11), cuneate-oblong or oblanceolate, up to 40 x 20 mm, appressed silvery pubescent, more densely so beneath
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers purplish or white in lax pedunculate pseudoracemes and sometimes in upper leaf-axils
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx appressed pubescent, c. 4 mm long with triangular-acuminate lobes, the lowest c. 2.5 mm long
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard pubescent, 6–8 mm long
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Style
Style glabrous, 2.5–3 mm long, not twisted, curved, penicillate at the tip
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod upcurved towards the tip, c. 35–50 x 4–5 mm, shortly pubescent, ± glabrescent
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds 5–8, c. 3.5–4.5 x 2 mm.
[FSOM]

Sources

  • 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