Tephrosia lanata M. Martens & Galeotti

Cracca lanata (Mart. & Gal.) Kuntze, Rev Gen. 175. 1891.
Tephrosia lanata Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 10=: 48. 1843.
Tephrosia crassifolia Bcnth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 80. 1844. Cracca crassifolia Kuntze. Rev. Gen. 174. 1891.
A shrubby perennial; stems tomentose-villous, flexuose, branched, with gray or on the younger parts yellowish pubescence; leaves 5-12 cm. long; stipules lanceolate, villous, 5-10 mm. long; petiole 1 cm. long or less, as well as the rachis densely villous; leaflets 5-9, oblong to oval, rounded at both ends, silky-villous or in age glabrate above, densely villous-canescent, when young often more or less fulvous beneath, strongly veined beneath, the lowest 2-3 cm. long, the odd one 4-8 cm. long, 1.5-4 cm. wide; racemes terminal and in the upper axils, 5-10 cm. long, dense, often branched; flowers 2-4 at each node; calyx villous, the tube 2 mm. long, the lobes lanceolate, 5 mm. long, acuminate; corolla rose-red, about 12 mm. long; pod densely fulvous-villous, 4 cm. long, 6 mm. wide.
Type LOCALITY: Savannas of Zacuapan, Veracruz. Distribution: Veracruz to Guerrero and Sinaloa.