Tephrosia
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Read about Tephrosia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Tephrosia (Greek, tephros, ash-colored, hoary; referring to the foliage). Leguminosae. Hardy or half-hardy perennial herbs, subshrubs, or rarely shrubs, of little horticultural value. Leaves uneven-pinnate; lfts. numerous, rarely 1-3, linear; stipules bristle-like or broader and striate: racemes terminal, opposite the lvs. or in the upper axils: fls. in fascicles of 2-6, red, purple, or white; calyx-lobes subequal or the 2 upper longer; petals clawed, standard suborbiculate, outside more or less silky-villous; wings obliquely obovate or oblong; keel incurved, obtuse or rather acute; ovary sessile, many-ovuled: pod linear, rarely ovate, compressed 2-valved. —About 170 species, natives of the warmer regions of the world. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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