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Indigofera denudata L.F.

Species

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Characteristics

Woody herb, shrublet or shrub, up to 2 m high. Stems ribbed, sparsely strigose, brown to silvery grey, exfoliating longitudinally. Leaves 1-3-foliolate, subfleshy to leathery, glaucous; petioles 1-8(10) mm long. Terminal leaflet 4-22 x 1-17 mm, oblanceolate to linear-elliptic, minutely hairy, sparsely strigose below, apex rounded or emarginate. Inflorescences of 4-50 mm long racemes, subsessile, ± equalling (sometimes longer than) the leaves, 5-50-flowered; pedicels 1-3(5) mm long. Flowers pink to mauve; calyx 1.5-2.0(3.0) mm long, strigose, lobes triangular, ± shorter than tube; standard softly white pubescent dorsally. Stamens (5.0)5.5-8.0 mm long. Ovary densely strigose. Flowering time July-May. Pod 22-30 x 2-4 mm, dark brown, strigose.
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Shrubby, rigid, divaricately much-branched, unarmed or spinous, subglabrous; leaves short-petioled, trifoliolate; leaflets oblong-cuneate, obovate or linear-oblong, obtuse, mucronulate, coriaceous, expanded, glabrous or puberulous beneath, (the terminal sometimes petioled); stipules obsolete or minute, tooth-like; racemes canescent, subsessile, equalling or somewhat exceeding the leaf, laxly few-flowered; calyx canous, bluntly 5-toothed; petals pubescent; legumes terete, straight, mucronate, minutely strigillose.
Much-branched shrublet to 1.2 m, unarmed or branches spine-tipped. Leaves 1-3-foliolate with slender petioles, leaflets linear-oblong to obovate, fleshy to leathery, glaucous, glabrous or minutely hairy; stipules minute. Flowers in subsessile racemes, mauve.
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Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 2.0
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Soil texture 7-8
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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 denudata world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:499234-1
WFO ID wfo-0001420835
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Synonyms

Indigofera denudata
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