Tephrosia florida (F.Dietr.) C.E.Wood

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
Cracca"intermedia Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 21: 3°3 (I^94)> not
Tephrosia intermedia Graham; Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. 2: 112 (1879).
Perennial from a woody base, pubescent throughout and some-
what viscid. Stems 4-6 dm. long, branched from the base, spread-
ing, assurgent, flexuous, more or less angled; stipules subulate,
caducous; leaves oblong-obpvate in outline, 6-12 cm. long; petioles
i-cm. long; leaflets 3-11, oblong-obovate, 1-3 cm. long, 6-14 mm.
wide, glabrous and yellowish-green above, strigose with whitish
hairs and becoming somewhat purplish beneath, truncate at the
apex, apiculate; peduncles 8 cm., 1-5 dm. long; bracts subulate, 5-7
mm. long; flowers 1 cm. long, mostly solitary or geminate, remote;
calyx-teeth lanceolate, acuminate; vexillum minutely pubescent;
legume 3.5-4 cm- long, about 4 mm. wide, straightish, strigillose;
seeds 5-9, oblong or oblong-ovoid, compressed, smooth, variegated
with black.
Dry and poor “ blackjack thickets.” Differing from C. chry-
sophylla in its assurgent habit, the greater number and shape of
the leaflets, the smaller flowers and larger seeds, as well* as the
character of the pubescence on the under surface of the leaflets.
Florida, Chapman, Curtiss; Georgia, Boykin.
Original locality: near Jacksonville, Florida (Curtiss).
Type in Herb. Columbia College,
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Examined for
north amerigan flo^a
Carroll E. Wood, Jr.
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