Common name
English: Vogel's tephrosia
Mandarin: 西非灰毛豆 (xi fei hui mao dou)
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2595)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2494)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2108)
Order: Fabales (237)
Family: Fabaceae (237)(family description)
Genus: Tephrosia (2)
Epithet: vogelii Hook.f. (1)
vogelii => in honor of Dr. Theodore Vogel, botanist to the voyage of the expedition sent by Her Britannic Majesty to the river Niger in 1841
Characteristics
Climate: tropical
Habitat: mesophytic
Habit: herb
Flower colour: violet
External links
Check for Tephrosia vogelii at
World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI- [413] International Legume Database & Information Service
- [1088] Tephrosia vogelii - AgroForestryTree Database
- [1409] Tephrosia vogelii - Flora of China @ efloras.org