Indigofera amoena Aiton

Species

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Characteristics

Shrubby, erect; branches angular, subcanescent; leaves on longish petioles, pinnately trifoliolate, leaflets elliptic-oblong or obovate, mucronulate, pale underneath, thinly strigillose on both sides; stipules lanceolate, adnate; spikes on long peduncles, densely many flowered, elongating; flowers subsessile; bracts broadly ovate, acuminate, deciduous; calyx pilose, its lobes broadly subulate; petals glabrous; legumes terete, acute, pendulous.
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Robust, suberect to sprawling, resprouting, woody herb or shrub, up to 1 m tall. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, leaflets elliptic-oblong or obovate, thinly hairy. Flowers in long-pedunculate racemes, pink, magenta or rose, calyx shorter than stamens, lobes triangular to broadly linear-lanceolate, ± equal to or twice as long as tube, standard glabrous on back, keel apex beak-like.
Robust, suberect to sprawling resprouting shrub to 1 m. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, leaflets elliptic-oblong or obovate, thinly hairy; stipules lanceolate. Flowers in racemes on robust peduncles, pink, magenta or rose, back of standard petal glabrous, bracts ovate-acuminate to trowel-shaped.
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Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.0
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Soil texture 5-8
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 30 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 10
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Germination treatment soaking
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Images

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Distribution

Indigofera amoena world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:498944-1
WFO ID wfo-0000190248
COL ID 3PLRK
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Synonyms

Indigofera amoena