Indigofera cryptantha Benth. ex Harv.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Indigofera

Characteristics

Shrubby, erect, much-branched, thinly strigillose; branches angular and furrowed; leaves petiolate, 5-8 jugate; leaflets linear-sublanceolate (rarely subalternate), or narrow-oblong obovate, acute or subobtuse, often folded, microscopically strigillose beneath, the terminal petioled; stipules minute or obsolete; racemes subsessile, shorter than the leaf, laxly several-flowered; bracts subulate, flowers small; calyx teeth short; petals downy; legumes moniliform-torulose, much constricted between the seeds, 4-5 seeded.
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A shrub. It grows 50 cm tall. It has several branches. The branches are angular and have furrows along them. The leaves are divided 5-8 times. The leaflets are narrow. The flowers are small.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.33 - 0.75
Root system -
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a subtropical plant. It occurs between 500-1,500 m above sea level.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses cover plant dye food hedge manure material medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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

Indigofera cryptantha unspecified picture

Distribution

Indigofera cryptantha world distribution map, present in Botswana, Madagascar, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:499195-1
WFO ID wfo-0000191520
COL ID 3PLYB
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Indigofera cryptantha

Lower taxons

Indigofera cryptantha subsp. cryptantha Indigofera cryptantha subsp. desmodioides