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Geographic Range [top]
Range Description: Tephrosia villosa is has a large distribution found in southern and eastern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and across southern Asia.
Countries occurrence:
Native:
Angola (Angola); Egypt; Ethiopia; India (Andhra Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Assam, Bihar, Bihar, Dadra-Nagar-Haveli, Dadra-Nagar-Haveli, Daman, Daman, Delhi, Delhi, Diu, Diu, Goa, Goa, Gujarat, Gujarat, Haryana, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu-Kashmir, Jammu-Kashmir, Karnataka, Karnataka, Kerala, Kerala, Maharashtra, Maharashtra, Manipur, Manipur, Meghalaya, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Mizoram, Nagaland, Nagaland, Orissa, Orissa, Pondicherry, Pondicherry, Punjab, Punjab, Rajasthan, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, West Bengal); Indonesia (Bali, Bali); Kenya; Madagascar; Mozambique; Myanmar; Namibia; Nepal; Pakistan; Saudi Arabia; Somalia; South Africa; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Tanzania, United Republic of; Uganda; Yemen; Zimbabwe
Additional data:
? Upper elevation limit (metres): 1500
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Population [top]
Population: There is no data relating to the population size of this taxon.
Current Population Trend: Stable
Additional data:
Habitat and Ecology [top]
Habitat and Ecology: T. villosa is found in Acacia-Commiphora bushland and woodland, in shrubland, on disturbed ground and on shallow sandy soils.
Systems: Terrestrial
Use and Trade [top]
Use and Trade: Tephrosia villosa is widely used in traditional Indian medicine as a treatment for dropsy and diabetes (Madhusudhana et al. 2010). The taxon is also used as green manure in Coffee and Hevea Plantations and as a shade crop in Tea Plantations (Bosma and de Haas 1983).
Threats [top]
Major Threat(s): There are no major threats to this taxon at present.
Conservation Actions [top]
Conservation Actions: T. villosa is known to occur within the protected areas network and seeds have been collected by the Millennium Seed Bank Project as an method of ex situ conservation.
Citation: Groom, A. 2012. Tephrosia villosa. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T19892432A20153152. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T19892432A20153152.en. Downloaded on 26 January 2017.
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