✿Fabaceae · Tephrosia
Large Tephrosia
Tephrosia maxima
UndershrubMedicinal
- Habit
- Undershrub
- Flowering
- June-January
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Tephrosia maxima
- Genus
- Tephrosia
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Habit
- Undershrub
- Habitat
- Rocky areas, waste places and sea coasts, also foot hills of deciduous forests
- Distribution
- India, Sri Lanka, East Africa
- Flowering & fruiting
- June-January
- 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 Large 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 Large Tephrosia itself; the rest are typical of the Fabaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Large Tephrosia
Large Tephrosia (Tephrosia maxima) belongs to the Fabaceae family, where it grows as a low shrub. It grows in rocky areas, waste places and sea coasts, also foot hills of deciduous forests. Flowering and fruiting run from June to January.
Botanical family
Fabaceae
Legume/Bean family
Large Tephrosia belongs to the Fabaceae family.
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