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Tephrosia dasyphylla
dasyphylla
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road from Small Bridge to Penhalonga
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road from Small Bridge to Penhalonga
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road from Small Bridge to Penhalonga
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road from Small Bridge to Penhalonga
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road from Small Bridge to Penhalonga
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| Synonyms: |
Tephrosia luembensis De Wild. Tephrosia subfalcato-stipulata De Wild. |
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| Frequency: | Occasional |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Suffrutex up to 35(50) cm high. Stems mostly unbranched, with more or less spreading brownish woolly hairs. Leaves mostly 3-foliolate, sometimes unifoliolate or 5-foliolate leaves present; leaflets linear-oblong or very narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblanceolate, green and hairless above, densely grey or whitish hairy beneath; stipules up to 15 mm, linear-triangular. Flowers in dense terminal heads, often also in the upper axils. Calyx up to c. 12 mm long, with appressed grey or brown hairs. Standard and wings up to c. 28 mm long, pink, mauve or pale purple, rarely bluish; standard brown pubescent outside. Ovary and style pubescent. Pods 35-55 mm long, oblong, with golden-brown hairs. |
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| Habitat: | Grassland, miombo woodland and fringing forest. |
| Altitude range: | 1200 - 1700 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, DRC (Katanga), Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and  Zimbabwe. |
| Mozambique distribution: | N |
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| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects (whose larvae eat this species): | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Sunday 4 September 2011 |
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Other sources of information about Tephrosia dasyphylla:
Biodiversity Explorer (Biodiversity of southern Africa): Tephrosia dasyphylla
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Tephrosia dasyphylla
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Tephrosia dasyphylla
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Tephrosia dasyphylla
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Tephrosia dasyphylla
JSTOR Plant Science: Tephrosia dasyphylla
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Tephrosia dasyphylla
Tropicos: Tephrosia dasyphylla
West African Plants database: Tephrosia dasyphylla
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