Tephrosia nitens Benth.
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Filed As
Fabaceae
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Collector(s)
G. Eiten 9594 with Liene T. Eiten, 27 Nov 1969
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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".
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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.].
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Description
Petals violet. Phenology of specimen: Flower, Fruit.
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Identifiers
NY Barcode: 01048154
Occurrence ID: 58eabb4a-1fd6-4c9f-a518-1c37e46a1bbb
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Kingdom
Plantae
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Division
Magnoliophyta
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Order
Fabales
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Family
Fabaceae
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All Determinations
Tephrosia nitens Benth. det R. C. Barneby, 1976
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Region
South America
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Country
Brazil
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State/Province
Mato Grosso
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County/Municipio
Barra do Garças Mun.
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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".
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Elevation
Alt. 450 m. (1476 ft.)
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Coordinates
-12.85, -51.75
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Distribution
FLORA OP BRAZIL STATE OF MATO GROSSO SERRA DO RONCADOR I ft 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°51S. 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
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Tephrosia nitens Benth.