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infestation (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
habit in flower (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
habit in fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
leaves (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
stem and once-compound leaf with several pairs of leaflets (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
close-up of leaflets (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
flowers (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
close-up of pea-shaped flower (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
immature fruit with hairy margins (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
mature fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
old fruit that have released their seeds (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
young plant (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
Scientific Name
Tephrosia glomeruliflora Meisn.
Synonyms
Tephrosia glomulifera Meisn.
Family
Fabaceae (Queensland, the ACT, Victoria, Tasmania, and the Northern Territory)Fabaceae: sub-family Faboideae (New South Wales)Leguminosae (South Australia)Papilionaceae (Western Australia)
Common Names
pink tephrosia
Origin
Native to southern Africa (i.e. Zimbabwe, South Africa and Swaziland).
Naturalised Distribution
Widely naturalised in eastern Australia (i.e. in south-eastern, central and northern Queensland and in the coastal districts of northern and central New South Wales).
Notes
Pink tephrosia (Tephrosia glomeruliflora) is an emerging environmental weed in south-eastern Queensland.
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