Contains 13 accepted taxa overall.
Characteristics
Classification
Citation
TEPHROSIA Persoon, Syn. Pl. 2: 328. 1807, nom. cons. vs. Erebinthus Mitchell 1769, et vs. Needhamia Scopoli 1777, et vs. Reineria Moench 1802.
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TYPE: Tephrosia villosa (Linnaeus) Persoon, typ. cons. (Cracca villosa Linnaeus)
Species
| Scientific Name | Common Name | Herbarium Specimens | Status | Photos |
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| Tephrosia angustissima var. angustissima | NARROWLEAF HOARYPEA | Native Rare-State | ||
| Tephrosia angustissima var. corallicola | CORAL HOARYPEA | Native Rare-State | ||
| Tephrosia angustissima var. curtissii | CURTISS' HOARYPEA | Native Rare-State | ||
| Tephrosia chrysophylla | SCURF HOARYPEA | Native | ||
| Tephrosia cinerea | ASHEN HOARYPEA | Not Native | ||
| Tephrosia florida | FLORIDA HOARYPEA | Native | ||
| Tephrosia hispidula | SPRAWLING HOARYPEA | Native FACU (NWPL) | ||
| Tephrosia mysteriosa | SANDHILL TIPPITOES | Native | ||
| Tephrosia rugelii | RUGEL'S HOARYPEA | Native | ||
| Tephrosia spicata | SPIKED HOARYPEA | Native | ||
| Tephrosia virginiana | GOAT'S RUE | Native | ||
| Tephrosia x intermedia | Native | |||
| Tephrosia x varioforma | Native |
Identification Key
1. Style glabrous; corolla 7-12 mm long
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1. Style barbellate or hispidulous; corolla 10–20 mm long
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2. Plants villous with spreading hairs; corolla mostly pale pink
2. Plants strigose to glabrate, hairs appressed (sometimes a few spreading); corolla pale pink to purple
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3. Width of largest terminal leaflets usually 7 mm or more; corolla 10-12 mm long; longest hairs of fruit 0.3-0.8 mm long; corolla mostly pale pink
3. Width of largest terminal leaflets usually 6 mm or less; corolla 7-11 mm long; longest hairs of fruits 0.1-0.4 mm long; corolla mostly purple, pink-purple, to reddish purple
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4. Leaflets 10-20 times longer than wide
4. Leaflets 2-8 times longer than wide
5. Leaflets 9-35; corolla 15–-20 mm long, 2-colored, the standard yellow, the wings pink
5. Leaflets 5-17; corolla less than 15 mm long, not 2-colored, usually white to pink, turning red to purple in age
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6. Petiole 2-4 times the length of the lowest leaflet; peduncle conspicuously flattened
6. Petiole subequal to shorter than the length of the lowest leaflet; peduncle terete or nearly so
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7. Stems monopodial, erect to ascendent; raceme foliose, with several reduced or undeveloped leaves that enlarge as the fruits mature, often with 2-3 flowers at a node;
7. Stems sympodial, prostrate, decumbent to weakly ascendent; raceme not foliose (rarely with a single leaf), flowers usually singular at a node
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8. Plant prostrate; trichomes of fruit less than 0.5 mm long
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8. Plant decumbent to weakly ascendent; trichomes of fruit 0.5-1.5 mm long
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9. Leaflets (1-)5-7, dorsal surface glabrous, semi-lustrous, bright green
9. Leaflets (1-)7-11(-13), dorsal surface microscopically tawny-hirsute, glabrate in age, dull (rarely glabrous or lustrous), olive-green or somewhat brownish olive-green
10. Leaflets 3-7 mm wide; upper stem and leaf rachis with appressed trichomes; calyx 3-5 mm long
10. Leaflets 6-12 mm wide; upper stem and leaf rachis with spreading trichomes; calyx 6-7 mm long
Genus Synonyms
| Synonym | Full Citation | Basionym | Type |
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| Apodynomene | Apodynomene E. Meyer, in E. Meyer & Drège, Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr. 111. 1836. | TYPE: Non designatus. | |
| Balboa | Balboa Liebmann ex Didrichsen, Vidensk. Meddel. Dansk Naturhist. Foren. Kjoebenhavn 1853: 106. 1853, nom. rej. vs. Balboa Planchon & Triana 1860. | TYPE: Balboa diversifolia Liebmann ex Didrichsen | |
| Brissonia | Brissonia Necker ex Desvaux, J. Bot. Agric. 3: 78. 1814. | TYPE: = Tephrosia Persoon 1807. | |
| Brittonamra | Brittonamra Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 164. 1891. | TYPE: Brittonamra caribaea (Jacquin) Kuntze (Galega caribaea Jacquin) | |
| Catacline | Catacline Edgeworth, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 16: 1214. 1847. | TYPE: Catacline sericea Edgeworth | |
| Colinil | Colinil Adanson, Fam. Pl. 2: 327. 1763. | TYPE: = Cracca Linnaeus 1753, nom. rej.; = Tephrosia Persoon 1807, nom. cons. | |
| Cracca | Cracca Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 752. 1753, nom. rej. vs. Cracca Bentham 1853. | TYPE: = Tephrosia Persoon 1807, nom. cons. | |
| Crafordia | Crafordia Rafinesque, Specchio Sci. 1: 156. 1814. | TYPE: Crafordia bracteata Rafinesque | |
| Erebinthus | Erebinthus Mitchell, Diss. Brev. Princ. Bot. 32. 1769, nom. rej. vs. Tephrosia Persoon 1807. | TYPE: Tephrosia spicata (Walter) Torrey & A. Gray (Galega spicata Walter) Lectotypified by C. E. Wood, Rhodora 51: 292. 1948. | |
| Kiesera | Kiesera Reinwardt, Pl. Nov. 2: 11. 1825, non Kieseria C. Nees von Esenbeck 1821. | TYPE: Kiesera sericea Reinwardt | |
| Macronyx | Macronyx Dalzell, Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 2: 35. 1850. | TYPE: Macronyx strigosus Dalzell | |
| Needhamia | Needhamia Scopoli, Intr. Hist. Nat. 310. 1777, nom. rej. vs. Tephrosia Persoon 1807. | TYPE: Vicia littoralis Jacquin | |
| Pogonostigma | Pogonostigma Boissier, Diagn. Pl. Orient. 1(2): 39. 1843. | TYPE: Non designatus. | |
| Reineria | Reineria Moench, Suppl. Meth. 44. 1802, nom. rej. vs. Tephrosia Persoon 1807. | TYPE: Reineria reflexa Moench | |
| Seemannantha | Seemannantha Alefeld, Bonplandia (Hannover) 10: 264. 1862. | TYPE: = Macronyx Dalzell 1850. | |
| Xiphocarpus | Xiphocarpus C. Presl, Symb. Bot. 1: 13, t. 7. 1830. | TYPE: Xiphocarpus martinicensis C. Presl |