Tephrosia nitens Benth.

  • Filed As

    Fabaceae
    Tephrosia nitens Benth.

  • Collector(s)

    G. Eiten 9594 with Liene T. Eiten, 27 Nov 1969

  • Location

    Brazil. Mato Grosso. Barra do Garças Mun. Serra do Roncador. 236 km along new road NNE of village of Xavantina. (24 km due S of Royal Society - Royal Geographic Society Base Camp.) At "Córrego dos Porcos".

  • Habitat

    Waste ground by house, in large cerrado patch formed by the joining of several groves within a valley-side campo matrix [See label for further habitat description.].

  • Description

    Petals violet. Phenology of specimen: Flower, Fruit.

  • Identifiers

    NY Barcode: 01048154

    Occurrence ID: 58eabb4a-1fd6-4c9f-a518-1c37e46a1bbb

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  • Kingdom

    Plantae

  • Division

    Magnoliophyta

  • Order

    Fabales

  • Family

    Fabaceae

  • All Determinations

    Tephrosia nitens Benth. det R. C. Barneby, 1976

  • Region

    South America

  • Country

    Brazil

  • State/Province

    Mato Grosso

  • County/Municipio

    Barra do Garças Mun.

  • Locality

    Serra do Roncador. 236 km along new road NNE of village of Xavantina. (24 km due S of Royal Society - Royal Geographic Society Base Camp.) At "Córrego dos Porcos".

  • Elevation

    Alt. 450 m. (1476 ft.)

  • Coordinates

    -12.85, -51.75

  • Distribution

    Map all specimens of this taxon

FLORA OP BRAZIL
STATE OF MATO GROSSO
SERRA DO RONCADOR
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Municipio de Barra do Garcas: 236 km along new road NNE of
village of XAVANTINA (24 fan due 8 of Royal Society-
Royal Geographic Society Base Camp. Base Camp is at 12°51’S. 51°45*W.)
Alt. ca. 450 m. "Córrego dos Poroos". 27 Iwr 1969
(Area of 10 km radius around Base Camp is situated on crest of the Serra do
Roncador, a gently-sloped divide between Xlngu drainage (via Rio Sulá Migu)
to west end Araguáia drainage (via Rio das Mor tes) to east. The yet undissected
few-km wide crest is flat or gently rolling With a few low lateritic scarps and
ridges. Brook valleys with very gentle to moderately steep slopes. Base Camp
area is exactly at climatic boundary between Amazonian forest region and central
Brazil “cerrado” region (savanna sens. lat.). North-western half of area is covered
with the outer edge of the continuous Amazonian forest, here a slightly semlde-
ciduous dry mesophytic forest 15-18 m tall on the upland, taller along the
seasonally dry brooks. Southeastern half of area has, on the upland, xeromorphic
semideciduous cerrado, in the form of medium-tall open scrub or tree-and-scrub
woodland, with evergreen gallery forests 20-30 m tall along the permanent brooks.
Usually a band of seasonally marshy grassy campo, a few meters to a few tens
of meters wide, borders the gallery forests, separating them from the cerrado,
but where the campo is lacking, the cerrado grades directly Into gallery forest
through a narrow band of its arboreal form, “cerradfto”. The campos usually
have scattered circular groves of cerrado scrub several meters in diameter on
slightly raised soil, each with a termite mound. On the upland the cerrado region
grades into the continuous dry forest region through a few-km wide ecotone of
cerradlo. Underlying rock is various kinds of sandstone, giving rise to slightly
clayey fine-sandy deep latosols, sterile and reddish or yellowish-tan with almost
no humus on upland under cerrado, and dark red with more clay under dry
forest. In restricted areas under cerrado, small laterite blocks or quartz pebbles
may form a thin permeable subsurface layer, or the upper soil layer may be
purely of laterite pebbles. Valley soils are deep light gray fine sand with little
or no clay, sterile on drier upper slopes, black with humuB in upper layer on
moister or soaking lower slopes and floors. Shales underlie soils in a few valleys.
At this date the Base Camp region has not yet been settled; the forests are virgin;
the cerrado and campo are uncut and ungrazed, but have been subjected to ground
fireá set by Indians every 3-5 years. In the cerrado, these infrequent fires
temporarily reduce density of the lower shrubs but otherwise have no effect
on the physiognomy.)
Habitat of this n°: waste ground house, in large
oerrado patch formed hj the joining of several
groves within a Talley-side campo matrix*
This a*t petals red-triolet«
leg. George Eiten & Liene T. Eiten, n.° 9594
Distributed by the Instituto de Botánica, Sáo Paulo
01048154