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77. Tephrosia Persoon, Syn. Pl. 2: 328. 1807.

灰毛豆属 hui mao dou shu

Authors: Zhi Wei & Les Pedley

Cracca Linnaeus.

Herbs, perennial or rarely annual, often suffrutescent, usually sericeous. Stipules caducous. Leaves imparipinnate; stipels absent; leaflet blades opposite, abaxially often sericeous, secondary veins to ca. 30 on each side of midvein and closely parallel, margin entire. Pseudoracemes terminal or axillary, sometimes opposite a leaf; bracts usually caducous. Bracteoles absent. Corolla white, cream-colored, or mauve, occasionally orange or red; standard reflexed, suborbicular, outside villous or sericeous. Stamens monadel­phous; vexillary stamen somewhat distinct from other 9. Ovary sessile, with trichomes, with numerous ovules. Legume flat, occa­sionally inflated, dehiscent, apex often beaked; valves twisted. Seeds 5-16 per legume, oblong, ellipsoid, or occasionally globose; radicle folded.

More than 400 species: tropical and subtropical regions of the world; 11 species (one endemic, three introduced) in China.


1 Flowers 1-2.5 cm; legume 5.5-13 cm × 5.5-14 mm   (2)
+ Flowers ca. 1 cm; legume 2-5 cm × 3.5-5(-6) mm   (6)
       
2 (1) Flowers 1-1.7 cm; legume 5.5-6 cm; leaflet blades obovate-elliptic, narrowly elliptic, linear-oblanceolate, or oblong-oblanceolate   (3)
+ Flowers 2-2.5 cm; legume 8-13 cm; leaflet blades oblong-elliptic, lanceolate-elliptic, oblong, or oblong-lanceolate   (4)
       
3 (2) Inflorescences 3-7 cm, with congested flowers; corolla white; leaflet blades abaxially velutinous, secondary veins 15-20 on each side of midvein.   4 T. vestita
+ Inflorescences to 25 cm, with scattered flowers; corolla red; leaflet blades abaxially silvery sericeous, secondary veins 9 or 10 on each side of midvein.   5 T. coccinea
       
4 (2) Pedicel 2-2.3 cm, densely rusty villous; legume 10-13 cm × ca. 14 mm, densely creamy villous.   1 T. vogelii
+ Pedicel 0.5-1 cm, densely white villous or sericeous; legume 8-10 cm × 6-8.5 mm, brown tomentose or yellow sericeous   (5)
       
5 (4) Calyx teeth ca. 1 mm, apex rounded; leaflet blades 0.6-1.4 cm in width, oblong, secondary veins 30-50 on each side of midvein; pedicel ca. 10 mm, villous; corolla white, rarely yellow or pale pink; legume brown tomentose.   2 T. candida
+ Calyx teeth ca. 5 mm, apex acute; leaflet blades 1.5-2 cm in width, oblong-lanceolate, secondary veins 20 on each side of midvein; pedicel ca. 5 mm, sericeous; corolla red; legume yellow sericeous.   3 T. kerrii
       
6 (1) Inflorescences 10-25 cm (but only ca. 2 cm in T. purpurea var. glabra), flowers scattered   (7)
+ Inflorescences 1-5 cm, flowers congested   (8)
       
7 (6) Calyx teeth ± equal; legume with sparse appressed trichomes, ca. 6-seeded.   6 T. purpurea
+ Calyx teeth unequal, most abaxial tooth longer and narrow, other ones shorter and broad; legume densely brown tomentose, 7-9-seeded.   7 T. noctiflora
       
8 (6) Legume with 7-14 seeds   (9)
+ Legume with 5-7 seeds   (10)
       
9 (8) Inflorescences with 1-3 flowers; legume apex with curved or hooked beak.   8 T. pumila
+ Inflorescences with 4-8 flowers; legume apex with a short straight beak.   9 T. luzonensis
       
10 (8) Leaves 13-17-foliolate; leaflet blades oblanceolate, abaxially sparsely pubescent, secondary veins ca. 9 on each side of midvein, mauve, conspicuous; legume slightly curved at tip, 3.5-4 cm.   10 T. ionophlebia
+ Leaves 11- or 13-foliolate; leaflet blades obovate, both surfaces densely sericeous, secondary veins 5-8 on each side of midvein, almost inconspicuous; legume straight, 2-2.5 cm.   11 T. obovata

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