Tephrosia festina Brummitt

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Castleburn Cliffs, Vumba

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Mt Chinaka, Juliasdale

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Frequency:	Local
Status:	Native
Description:	Shrub up to c. 5 m tall. Young branches shortly grey or brownish hairy. Leaves pinnate with 7-13 pairs of leaflets; petiole and rhachis grey or brownish hairy. Leaflets elliptic-oblong, up to 38 mm long, mostly hairless on the upper surface, appressed pubescent beneath; margins often somewhat inrolled. Inflorescences compact,subglobose inflower, extending up to 10 cm long in fruit; bract large and conspicuous but falling soon. Flowers purple. Pods 5-6 cm long,woolly with hairs grey at least at their tips.
Notes:	This shrub superficially resembles Mundulea sericea.
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Habitat:	In open grassland around granite kopjes.
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Worldwide distribution:	Known only from the Eastern Highlands, Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe distribution:	E
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Endemic status:	Endemic
Red data list status:	Data deficient
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Images last updated:	Tuesday 3 November 2015
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) Page 192. Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 227. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 245. Golding, J.S. (ed.) (2002). Zimbabwe Plant Red Data List. Southern African Plant Red Data Lists. SABONET 14 Page 180. Mapaura, A. (2002). Endemic Plant Species of Zimbabwe. Kirkia 18(1) Page 142. 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.

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