Tephrosia macropoda(E.Mey.) Harv.

WFO wfo-0000203147 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Tephrosia macropoda, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. a Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-02-16 / obs. 179690432
Tephrosia macropoda, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. b Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179688890
Tephrosia macropoda, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. c Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155411109
Tephrosia macropoda, photographed by Peter Warren
fig. d Peter Warren, CC0 1.0 / obs. 74473257
Tephrosia macropoda, photographed by Peter Warren
fig. e Peter Warren, CC0 1.0 / obs. 12469611
Tephrosia macropoda, photographed by Peter Warren
fig. f Peter Warren, CC0 1.0 / obs. 74985876
Tephrosia macropoda, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 34389835
Tephrosia macropoda, photographed by Sunčana Bradley
fig. h Sunčana Bradley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194179228

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Tephrosia macropoda is native: Eswatini, KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Provinces EswatiniKwaZulu-NatalNorthern Provinces
Native distribution of Tephrosia macropoda, 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
Eswatini SWZ AFRICA
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Northern Provinces TVL

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 11 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.

  • Apodynomene aemula E.Mey.
  • Apodynomene diffusa E.Mey.
  • Apodynomene macropoda E.Mey.
  • Cracca aemula (E.Mey.) Kuntze
  • Cracca macropoda (E.Mey.) Kuntze
  • Cracca triphylla Kuntze
  • Tephrosia aemula (E.Mey.) Harv.
  • Tephrosia armitageana Chiov.
  • Tephrosia diffusa (E.Mey.) Harv.
  • Tephrosia meyeriana J.B.Gillett
  • Tephrosia triphylla Harms

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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