Tephrosia lurida Sond.

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Synonyms:	Cracca lurida (Sond.) Kuntze Tephrosia angustissima Engl. Tephrosia dowsonii Baker f. Tephrosia longipes Meisn. var. lurida (Sond.) J.B. Gillett
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Description:	Perennial with prostrate or more often ascending stems, up to 50 cm high, growing from a woody rootstock; stems and leaf-rhachis sparsely or less often densely appressed pubescent with greyish hairs. Leaves mostly 3–7-foliolate; leaflets linear or narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate, up to 12 cm long, usually less than 5 mm wide, ending in a stout blackish often recurved mucro, hairless above, appressed pubescent beneath; lateral veins very numerous; petiole up to 8 cm long, usually longer than the rhachis; stipules narrowly triangular, up to 1 cm long, often blackish. Flowers in very lax, terminal pseudoracemes; bracts linear, up to 7 mm long; pedicels 3–5 mm long. Calyx brownish pubescent; teeth triangular, about as long as the tube or slightly longer. Corolla pink or purple; standard 12–18 mm long; keel hairless. Pod ascending, slightly upcurved, 5–6 cm long and 4–5 mm wide, stiffly and shortly white spreading pubescent; style-base straight.
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Worldwide distribution:	Angola, DRC, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Eswatini.
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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 173 - 176. Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 227. as Tephrosia lurida lurida 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 51. As Tephrosia lurida var. lurida Ntore, S. & al. (2024). Checklist of the vascular plants of Burundi Page 134.

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