Vogel tephrosia (Tephrosia vogelii) is a plant species in Fabaceae, small trees, flowers in clusters, violet and white, narrow leaves, poisonous to fish and several other animals, widely used to remove lice on animals, organic pesticides, intercropping plants to bind nitrogen and a source of green manure.
T. vogelii has a trunk with soft wood, stands upright, brown or green, 0.5-4 m high, the branches have white or brown hair. The leaves are long, narrow, the veins are sturdy, branch off from the stem and are green in color.
Flowers in clusters, purple in color, lined up at the ends of the long, upright stems, long stalks and bloom alternately from bottom to top. The seeds are wrapped in long, green, hairy pods.
This plant grows in a variety of habitats and adapts to a variety of climates and weather, savannas, grasslands, forest margins, shrubs, deserts and empty fields. This species is tolerant of pruning, drought, high winds and grazing. Grows well at a temperature of 12-27C, rainfall 850-2650 mm/year.
TAXON
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Millettieae
Genus: Tephrosia Pers. in Syn. Pl. 2: 328 (1807)
Species: Tephrosia vogelii Hook.f. in W.J.Hooker, Niger Fl.: 296 (1849)
HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS
Cracca vogelii (Hook.f.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 175 (1891)
HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS
Tephrosia inebrians Welw. in Ann. Cons. Ultramar. (Portugal), Parte Nâo Off. 24: 573 (1858 publ. 1859)
Tephrosia megalantha Micheli in Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique, Compt. Rend. 36: 57 (1897)
Tephrosia periculosa Baker in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1897: 258 (1897)
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VERNACULAR NAME
English: Pugeli, Vogel tephrosia, Vogel's tephrosia, Fish-poison pea
Indonesian: Pugeli, Teprosia
Oceania: Pilawa
Slovak: Tefrózia jedovatá
Spanish: Falso guandul
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