Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Tephrosia elegans Schum..

Tephrosia elegans Schum.

HIGHER TAXON: Millettieae

GENUS: Tephrosia Pers.

Tephrosia elegans Schum. [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Angola (N) [210]; Burkina (N) [8]; Cameroon (N) [8]; Ghana (N) [210, 212]; Guinea (N) [212]; Guinea Bissau (N) [210]; Ivory Coast (N) [212]; Mali (N) [212]; Nigeria (N) [212]; Senegal (N) [212]; Sierra Leone (N) [212]; Sudan (N) [210]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Togo (N) [212]; Uganda (N) [210]; Zaire (N) [210]; Zambia (N) [210]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sudanian grasslands [210];
    Zambezian grassland [236];
    Zambezian woodland [236];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [210, 236] ; Illustration [236]

DESCRIPTORS:
	Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Herb ; Lifespan: Annual ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM

USES:
	Toxins [121]

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.		Lock, J.M., 1985
		Specimen in Herb.Kew

121.		Watt, J.M. & Breyer-Brandwijk, M, 1962
		Medicinal & Poisonous Plants of Southern & Eastern Africa

210.		Gillett, J.B. et al., 1971
		Papilionoideae.In:Fl.Trop.E.Africa,Milne-Redhead & Polhill

212.		Hepper, F.N., 1958
		Papilionoideae.In:Flora West Tropical Africa.Keay,R.W.J.

236.		Robyns, W.(Ed.), 1954
		Flore du Congo Belge, Vol 5; Galegeae, Hedysareae.