Galapagos Species Database

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Tephrosia decumbens Benth. ex Oerst.

hoary pea

Decumbent herb, apparently annual, stems about 50 cm long, cinereous-pubescent with spreading or subappresed hairs; stipules setaceous, 2-5 mm long; seeds 3-4.5 mm long, 2-2.5 mm broad, light brown, somewhat sculptured, hilum small (Wiggins and Porter, 1971).

On cinder slopes, lava flows, and open forest, arid and Transition zones in the Galápagos (Wiggins and Porter, 1971).

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Plantae

Phylum
Magnoliophyta

Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)

Order
Fabales

Family
Fabaceae

Genus
Tephrosia

Species
decumbens

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn: Tephrosia cinerea var. villosior Benth.

Origin: Native

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: The native range of this species is Central America to Colombia (POWO, 2023), Galápagos.

References

  • Fosberg, F. R. (1987) Vegetación inalterada en Fernandina, 1964 Memorias. Investigación Botánica y Manejo en Galápagos. Pg. 66-74
  • Itow, S. (1997) List of Plant Specimens collected in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Bulletin of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Nagasaki University, Natural Science, 38 (1): 53-144.
  • McMullen, C.K. (1999) Flowering plants of the Galapagos. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 370 pp.
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2022) Plants of the world online POWO (2022): Plants of the world online. Published on the Internet; Https://powo.science.kew.org/
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Missouri Botanical Garden (eds.) (2013) The Plant List, Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 1st January).
  • Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
  • Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Tephrosia decumbens", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=14485. Accessed 31 October 2026.