Derivation of specific name
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
purpurea: purple
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Tephrosia purpurea (L.) Pers.
subsp. purpurea Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=129890
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Cracca wallichii (Graham) Rydberg
Tephrosia Wallichii Graham (Wall. Cat no. 5640, nomen nudum); Fawcett & Rendle, Jour. Bot. 55:35. 1917.
A perennial, subligneous at the base; stem terete, 3-5 dm. high, sparingly strigose or glabrate; leaves 6-10 cm. long; stipules lance subulate, 5-7 mm. long; petiole 5-10 mm. long; iachis sparingly strigose; leaflets 11-19, oblong, cuneate, or oblanceolate, glabrous above, cinereous-strigose beneath, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, 5-15 mm. wide; racemes lax, 8-10 cm. long, opposite the leaves; flowers 1-3 at each node; calyx strigose, the tube 2 mm. long, the lobes about 3 mm. long, subulate; corolla 8-10 mm. long, red-purple; banner suborbicular, strigose without; wings oblong-oblanceolate ; pod 3-4 cm. long, strigillose, 5-7-seeded.
Typb locality: India.
Distribution: Jamaica, Haiti, St. Kitts, Dominica, Barbados, and Trinidad; naturalized from India.
- bibliographic citation
- Per Axel Rydberg. 1919. (ROSALES); FABACEAE; PSORALEAE. North American flora. vol 24(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
