✿Fabaceae · Tephrosia
Common Tephrosia
Tephrosia hamiltonii
Also known as Wild Indigo
Undershrub
- Habit
- Undershrub
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Tephrosia hamiltonii
- Genus
- Tephrosia
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Habit
- Undershrub
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf type
- Pinnately compound (leaflets in rows along a stalk)recorded
- Leaf surface
- Glaucous (waxy blue-grey bloom)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Common Tephrosia itself; the rest are typical of the Fabaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- PurplerecordedPurple or violet
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Zygomorphic (bilaterally symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Raceme
- Fruit
- Legume
Characters marked “recorded” are for Common Tephrosia itself; the rest are typical of the Fabaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Common Tephrosia
Common Tephrosia (Tephrosia hamiltonii) is a low shrub in the Fabaceae family.
Botanical family
Fabaceae
Legume/Bean family
Common Tephrosia belongs to the Fabaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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