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Description

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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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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Tephrosia dasyphylla Welw. ex Baker
subsp. dasyphylla Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=129630
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Mark Hyde
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Bart Wursten
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Petra Ballings
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Frequency

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Occasional
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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Tephrosia dasyphylla Welw. ex Baker
subsp. dasyphylla Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=129630
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
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Flora of Zimbabwe

Worldwide distribution

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Angola, DRC (Katanga), Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and  Zimbabwe.
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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 dasyphylla Welw. ex Baker
subsp. dasyphylla Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=129630
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
original
visit source
partner site
Flora of Zimbabwe