Tephrosia lupinifolia DC.

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Photo: Bart Wursten
Bembesi Forest Land, by main road from Hwange to Bulawayo

Photo: Bart Wursten
By road to Hwange NP, Main Camp.

Photo: Bart Wursten
Bembesi Forest Land, by main road from Hwange to Bulawayo

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Synonyms:	Lupiniphyllum lupinifolium (DC.) Hutch. Tephrosia digitata DC. Tephrosia laevigata Baker
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Status:	Native
Description:	Perennial herb with prostrate branches up to 1 m long, growing from a vertical woody rootstock, often producing underground inflorescences. Stems more or less densely covered with spreading hairs. Leaves palmately 3-7-foliolate; leaflets, 3.5-9 cm long, linear-elliptic to narrowly obovate, usually hairless above, with appressed or spreading hairs below. Inflorescences in racemes, up to 20 cm long. Flowers pink to purple. Subterranean inflorescences shorter with whitish flowers. Pods 2-3.5 cm long linear-oblong, pubescent, brownish, 4-7-seeded. Subterranean pods 7-10 mm long, whitish, 1-2-seeded.
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Derivation of specific name:	lupinifolia: with leaves like a lupin (Lupinus sp.) referring to the palmately divided leaves.
Habitat:	In open grassy places, often on sandy soils.
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Worldwide distribution:	Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Congo, Senegal, northern Nigeria, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa
Botswana distribution:	N,SE
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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 128 - 130. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 34. Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 223. as Lupiniphyllum lupinifolium Heath, A. & Heath, R. (2009). Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana including the Okavango Delta Kew Publishing Page 173. (Includes a picture). Kirby, G. (2013). Wild Flowers of Southeast Botswana Struik Nature, Cape Town South Africa Page 274. (Includes a picture). 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. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 73.

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