Tephrosia lupinifoliaDC.

WFO wfo-0000203073 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Tephrosia lupinifolia, photographed by Wilderness Safaris Botswana - Conservation Team
fig. a Wilderness Safaris Botswana - Conservation Team, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-03-07 / obs. 65609554
Tephrosia lupinifolia, photographed by Andrew Hankey
fig. b Andrew Hankey, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 60022857
Tephrosia lupinifolia, photographed by Andrew Hankey
fig. c Andrew Hankey, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 60022859
Tephrosia lupinifolia, photographed by Andrew Hankey
fig. d Andrew Hankey, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 60022870
Tephrosia lupinifolia, photographed by Andrew Hankey
fig. e Andrew Hankey, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 60022874
Tephrosia lupinifolia, photographed by Wilderness Safaris Botswana - Conservation Team
fig. f Wilderness Safaris Botswana - Conservation Team, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65609423
Tephrosia lupinifolia, photographed by Wilderness Safaris Botswana - Conservation Team
fig. g Wilderness Safaris Botswana - Conservation Team, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65609495
Tephrosia lupinifolia, photographed by Wilderness Safaris Botswana - Conservation Team
fig. h Wilderness Safaris Botswana - Conservation Team, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65609589

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Native range 24 botanical countries

Regions where Tephrosia lupinifolia is native: Angola, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Chad, Congo, DR Congo, Free State, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Malawi, Mauritania, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Senegal, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe AngolaBotswanaBurkinaBurundiCameroonCape ProvincesChadCongoDR CongoFree StateGabonGuineaGuinea-BissauMalawiMauritaniaNamibiaNigerNigeriaNorthern ProvincesSenegalSudan-South SudanTanzaniaZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Tephrosia lupinifolia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Angola ANG AFRICA
Botswana BOT
Burkina BKN
Burundi BUR
Cameroon CMN
Cape Provinces CPP
Chad CHA
Congo CON
DR Congo ZAI
Free State OFS
Gabon GAB
Guinea GUI
Guinea-Bissau GNB
Malawi MLW
Mauritania MTN
Namibia NAM
Niger NGR
Nigeria NGA
Northern Provinces TVL
Senegal SEN
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cracca laevigata (Welw. ex Baker) Kuntze
  • Cracca lupinifolia (DC.) Kuntze
  • Galega lupinifolia Burch. ex DC.
  • Lupinophyllum lupinifolium (DC.) Hutch.
  • Rhynchosia cienkowskii Schweinf.
  • Tephrosia digitata DC.
  • Tephrosia laevigata Welw. ex Baker
  • Tephrosia lupinifolia var. digitata (DC.) Baker

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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