Tephrosia dregeana dregeana
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Habit
02 Apr 2015
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Leaves and fruit pod
02 Apr 2015
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Flower
02 Apr 2015
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Full name: | Tephrosia dregeana E.Mey. var. dregeana |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Tephrosia dregeana E.Mey. Tephrosia brachyloba E.Mey. Tephrosia damarensis Engl. Tephrosia dinteri Schinz |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | An erect annual herb. Stems and branches are very long and slender, leaves are compound; imparipinnate with 5 - 7 leaflets. Leaflets are lanceolate with entire margins, and bright green. Flowers are small and inconspicuous, deep pink with differentiated petals. Fruit is a pod. (from Namibrand website) Suffruticose, much branched, rigid, flexuoso-erect; branches 4-angled, thinly appresso-puberulous; leaves on long, rigid petioles, 2–4 jugate; leaflets linear-lanceolate, pale, flat, membranous, penninerved, thinly puberulous underneath; peduncles opposite the leaves, elongate, slender, straight, laxly pluri-flowered; stipules and bracts shortly subulate; legumes pale, curved, puberulous or glabrate, 3–4 seeded. Stems woody at base, remarkably rigid, and angularly bent. Foliage very pale, subglabrous. Leaflets 1.5–1.75 inch. long, 1–1.5 line wide, flat, tapering to each end or with a blunt or emarginate apex. Racemes 6–8 inches long. Flowers small, 2 lines long. Legumes somewhat scymetar shaped, 0.75–1 inch long, pale-yellowish green. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Capensis) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
