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Tephrosia stormsii De Wild.
var. stormsii

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Synonyms:	Tephrosia eylesii Baker f.
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Status:	Native
Description:	Annual with a taproot and rather slender, branched stems 40–180 cm high. Stems glabrous or with sparse appressed hairs in parts, or (var. pilosa) with rather conspicuous grey spreading hairs. Leaves with 1–6 pairs of leaflets; petiole 0.3–10 cm long, petiole and rachis together 5–18 cm long, pubescent like the stem; leaflets 2.5–14 × 0.1–1.1 cm, linear to linear-oblong, or the lower ones sometimes ± elliptic, the apex acute to rounded or occasionally emarginate; upper surface glabrous, lower surface appressed-pubescent; stipules 3–12 × 0.3–0.8 mm (up to 17 mm long in var. pilosa), linear, sometimes falcate. Flowers in lax terminal and axillary racemes up to 25 cm long, the upper branch racemes often subtended by only a bract instead of a foliage leaf and so forming a compound inflorescence, the branches usually forming an angle of about 45° or more, their axis slender (0.2–1 mm diameter) and usually rather flexuous and curving upwards, glabrous to shortly appressed-pubescent; bracts 2–5 × 0.2–0.5 mm, linear-triangular, rather inconspicuous and usually falling early; pedicels 3–6 mm long. Calyx 3–5.5 mm long, usually shortly appressed-pubescent with greyish hairs, or (var. pilosa) with longer spreading hairs; upper teeth usually joined for most of their length to form an obtuse or acute triangle, or (particularly in var. pilosa) free for more than half their length, the lateral teeth usually about equalling the tube. Petals pink to sometimes purplish, or the keel much paler and often white; standard 12–18 mm long. Ovary pubescent; style pubescent. Pods 48–82 × 4–5 mm, shortly pubescent with usually irregular geniculate hairs, sometimes with rather regular short appressed hairs. Seeds 10–17.
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Derivation of specific name:	stormsii: named after E. Storms who collected the type specimen.
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Flowering time:	Feb - May
Worldwide distribution:	Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, DRC, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe
FZ divisions:	N,Z
Growth form(s):	Annual.
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Literature:	Brummitt, R.K., Harder, D.K., Lewis, G.P., Lock, J.M., Polhill, R.M. & Verdcourt, B. (2007). Leguminosae Subfamily Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(3) Pages 183 - 184. Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 228. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 52. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 103.

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