Tephrosia villosa(L.)Pers.

Description:

Family: FabaceaeDistribution: Common in waste places. Found in Tropical Africa, India and Mauritius.Photographed at Nellore.0.5to 1m tall herbs, branches villous,. Leaves 3-8cm long, imparipinnate; leaflets 11-15,0.5-1.8x0.3-0.8cm, oblong, emarginate and mucronate base cuneate, silky beneath. Flowers 0.8-1cm long, pink, fascicled on 4-10cm long leaf-opposed or terminal racemes. Pods2-4x0.2-0.5cm, linear, wooly, linear oblong 6-9 seeded.