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Tephrosia wynaadensis
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Family:
FABACEAE/LEGUMINOSAE (Subfam.: Papilionoideae)
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Citation: Tephrosia wynaadensis Drumm. in Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 319(224). 1918; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 175. 1990; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 260. 1992.
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Description:
Erect undershrubs. Leaves alternate, pinnate, terminal leaflets large, white silky beneath, up to 3.5 cm long; petiole not compressed, its margins not winged; stipules and bracts deltoid-lanceolate, deciduous. Inflorescence not elongate. Flowers (including calyx) at least 0.3 cm long, brick-red; claw of standard less than one-third as long as the limb. Calyx teeth broadly deltoid, the anterior alone equaling or longer than the tube. Pods golden tomentose, more than 6 cm long. Style in fruit more or less recovered or ascending. Seeds smooth, hardly compressed, 5 x 2 mm, oblong-reniform.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
October
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District(s):
Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Moist deciduous forests
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Red
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
Southern Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
Vulnerable (VU)
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Aruvampara
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