- Tephrosia vogelii
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Tephrosia vogelii Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Eudicots (unranked): Rosids Order: Fabales Family: Fabaceae Subfamily: Faboideae Tribe: Millettieae Genus: Tephrosia Species: T. vogelii Binomial name Tephrosia vogelii
Hook.f.Synonyms Cracca vogelii (Hook. f.) Kuntze
Tephrosia vogelii, the fish-poison-bean or Vogel tephrosia (English), tefrósia (Portuguese) or barbasco guineano (Spanish), is a flowering plant species in the genus Tephrosia.[1]
The two rotenoids deguelin and tephrosin can be found in T. vogelii.[2]
T. vogelii forms root nodules with Sinorhizobium fredii.
References
- ^ "GRIN Species Records of Tephrosia vogelii". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?80185. Retrieved 2010-11-29.
- ^ Production of rotenoids by heterotrophic and photomixotrophic cell cultures of tephrosia vogelii. Nadine Lambert, Marie-France Trouslot, Claudine Nef-Campa and Hervé Chrestin, Phytochemistry, Volume 34, Issue 6, December 1993, Pages 1515-1520, doi:10.1016/S0031-9422(00)90838-0
External links
- "Tephrosia vogelii". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=506282.
Categories:- Tephrosia
- Plants described in 1849
- Faboideae stubs
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