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Indigofera declinata E.Mey.

Species

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Characteristics

Prostrate or decumbent shrublets, up to 0.2 m high; stems woody below, sparsely strigose, angular. Stipules 1-5 mm long, lanceolate-falcate. Leaves pinnately 5-13-foliolate, dark green, subsucculent, petioles 2-8(10) mm long. Terminal leaflet 3-13 x 2-6 mm, obovate-oblong to oblanceolate, glabrous or sparsely strigose above, sparsely strigose beneath, margins often involute, apex rounded to emarginate. Inflorescences of 30-170 mm long, 8-30(40)-flowered racemes; peduncle slender, 24-90 mm long; pedicels 0.5-1.5 mm long. Flowers 5.5-7.0 mm long, pink to magenta; calyx 2-3 mm long, subhirsute; lobes triangular to lanceolate, ± equalling to twice tube length; standard crisped, dorsally puberulent, keel apex obtuse. Stamens 4-5 mm long. Ovary glabrous. Flowering time July-Nov. Pod 16-32 x 2.0-2.5 mm.
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Prostrate to decumbent shrublet to 20 cm. Leaves 5-13-foliolate, petiole 2-8(-9) mm long, leaflets obovate-oblong to suborbicular or oblanceolate, glabrous or thinly hairy above, hairy beneath; stipules lanceolate to awl-shaped, spreading to reflexed, 1-4 mm long. Flowers in racemes on slender peduncles to twice or more the length of leaves, pink to magenta, back of standard petal hairy, stamens 4-5 mm long. Pods glabrous, spreading to suberect.
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Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.2
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Soil texture 7-8
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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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Distribution

Indigofera declinata world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:499217-1
WFO ID wfo-0000191637
COL ID 3PLZ4
BDTFX ID -
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Synonyms

Indigofera declinata
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