Tephrosia bracteolata Guill. & Perr.

PROTA4U Tephrosia bracteolata Fabaceae

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Cracca bracteolata (Guill. & Perr.) Rydb
Tephrosia hracleolala Guill. & Perr. Fl. Seneg. 194. 1830.
Perennial or annual; stem about 3 dm. high, strigose; leaves 1-1.5 dm. long; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, 6-8 mm. long; petiole 8-12 mm. long; rachis strigose; leaflets 11-15, linear, 2-5 cm. long or the terminal one up to 6 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, obtuse to retuse at the apex, glabrate above, densely strigose beneath; racemes 1-2 dm. long, inserted obliquely at the axils, lax; bracts lanceolate, about 4 mm long; pedicels short; calyx densely ferruginousor yellowish-silky; tube 3 mm. long; lowest calyx lobe lanceolate, 2 mm. long, the rest triangular, acute, 1 mm. long or less; corolla 1 cm. long or more, densely ferruginous-silky on the back; pod about 5 cm. long and 4 mm. wide, hispidulous on the thick sutures, hirsutulous on the sides.*
Type locality: Lam Sar near St. Louis, Senegambia. Distribution: Santo Domingo; native of tropical Africa.