Tephrosia thurberi |
Tephrosia corallicola |
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Thurber's hoary-pea |
coral hoary-pea |
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Habit | Herbs. | Subshrubs. |
Stems | erect, 30–60 cm, hirsute to hirsute-villous. |
erect to ascending-sprawling, 5–70 cm, densely fine-hirsute to hirsute. |
Leaves | petiole 10–30(–40) mm; leaflets (9–)11–27, blades elliptic to narrowly oblong, 15–30 × (5–)7–13 mm, length 2.5–3.5(–4) times width, apex obtuse to rounded, surfaces loosely strigose to sericeous. |
petiole 6–15 mm; leaflets 11–15, blades linear to oblong-elliptic or oblong-oblanceolate, (9–)12–30 × 3–6 mm, length 3–5 times width, apex rounded to truncate, surfaces villous-hirsute, abaxial veins reddish. |
Racemes | congested, 8–14-flowered, 2–4 cm; floral bracts setaceous, caducous. |
5–11-flowered, 4–8 cm; floral bracts persistent, linear. |
Flowers | corolla pink and pink-purple or yellowish, aging pink-purple, 15–18 mm; stamens weakly diadelphous; style bearded. |
corolla pale pink to purple, 7–11 mm; stamens monadelphous; style glabrous. |
Legumes | 30–60 × 4 mm, villosulous. |
35–45 × 3–4 mm, sparsely hirsutulous. |
Tephrosia thurberi |
Tephrosia corallicola |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Sep. | Flowering May–Dec. |
Habitat | Oak or pine woodlands, roadsides. | Slash pine-saw palmetto communities. |
Elevation | 1600–2000 m. (5200–6600 ft.) | 0–10 m. (0–0 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora)
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FL |
Discussion | Tephrosia thurberi is similar to T. virginiana but far disjunct and in a different biome. In the flora area, it is restricted to Cochise and Santa Cruz counties in southeastern Arizona. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Tephrosia corallicola is known from Collier and Miami-Dade counties; it has been established by cuttings from a Miami-Dade locality in a nearby, similar habitat (K. Wendelberger, http://www.virtualherbarium.org/GardenViews/TephrosiaAngustissima.html). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Tephrosia | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Tephrosia |
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Synonyms | Cracca thurberi | Cracca corallicola, T. angustissima var. corallicola |
Name authority | (Rydberg) C. E. Wood: Rhodora 51: 265. (1949) | (Small) León: Contr. Ocas. Mus. Hist. Nat. Colegio “De La Salle” 10: 304. (1951) |
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