Indigofera argentea Burm.F.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Indigofera

Characteristics

A small shrub. It grows 60 cm tall. It has several hairy branches. The leaves are compound and up to 2.6 cm long with 7-11 leaflets. The fruit are 9-13 mm long. They are hairy.
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A silvery desert shrublet
Very sparingly glandular.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.6
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in the desert.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses animal food dye food forage manure material medicinal vertebrate poison
Edible -
Therapeutic use Aftosa (unspecified), Colic (unspecified), Epilepsy (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Insecticide (unspecified), Parasiticide (unspecified), Pediculicide (unspecified), Nephritis (unspecified), Tumor (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 30 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 10
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment soaking
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Indigofera argentea world distribution map, present in United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Chad, and Yemen

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:498985-1
WFO ID wfo-0000190388
COL ID 3PLSL
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Indigofera argentea Indigofera brachycarpa Indigofera burmanni Indigofera semitrijuga var. tetrasperma Indigofera arenaria var. strigosa