Indigofera dosua Buch.-ham. ex D.Don

Species

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Characteristics

Shrubs, 5-20 cm tall. Stems striate, with dense spreading brown 2-branched trichomes with very unequally long arms. Stipules linear, 7-10 mm, abaxially with spreading white or brown trichomes. Leaves 4-10 cm, 13-39-foliolate; petiole absent; rachis with dense spreading brown trichomes; stipels minute or absent; petiolules ca. 1 mm; leaflet blades elliptic to oblong, 7-15 × 4-6 mm, abaxially with dense subbasifixed tri­chomes, adaxially with slender white appressed medifixed tri­chomes, secondary veins not visible, base cuneate to rounded, apex obtuse to rounded and mucronate. Racemes 5-15 cm; pe­duncle and rachis with dense spreading long white trichomes; peduncle 4-7 mm; bracts linear to narrowly triangular, 8-10 mm, abaxially with long spreading white trichomes. Pedicel ca. 3 mm, with long spreading trichomes. Calyx ca. 3 mm, outside with long spreading white trichomes; tube ca. 2 mm; teeth triangular, ca. 1 mm. Corolla pink; standard elliptic to oblong, 8-10 × ca. 4.5 mm, outside with dense spreading brown or white long trichomes, apex mucronate; wings oblong, 8-9 mm, glabrous, margin ciliate; keel 8-9 mm, outside apically with spreading white trichomes, margin ciliate, apex acute. Sta­mens 7.5-9 mm; anthers hairy at base. Ovary with dense ap­pressed white trichomes. Legume linear, cylindric, deflexed to spreading, 3-4 cm × 3-4 mm, with white appressed 2-branched trichomes; endocarp not blotched. Seeds 6-10 per legume, dark brown, cubic, 1.5-2 × 1.5-2 mm. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. Jun-Aug.
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A shrub. It grows to 2 m high. The leaves have an odd number of leaflets arranged along the stalk. There are 15-23 leaflets. They are narrow and oblong. They are covered with fine hairs. The flowers are pink. They occur along a stalk in the axils of leaves. The pod is like a cylinder and covered with short hairs.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
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Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 1.2
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Blooming months
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OctNovDec
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AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Environment

It is a subtropical plant. In Nepal is grows between 1000-3000 m altitude. It grows in hedges and along tracks. In southern China it grows on valley slopes between 1,800-2,500 m above sea level.
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Valley slopes; at elevations from 1,800-2,500 metres. Evergreen forest, open pine forest, secondary vegetation and grassland; at elevations from 800-2,400 metres.
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-12

Usage

The flowers are pickled.
Uses dye forage medicinal
Edible flowers
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Plants are grown from seeds.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 10
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment soaking
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Images

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Distribution

Indigofera dosua world distribution map, present in Bhutan, China, Indonesia, India, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:499275-1
WFO ID wfo-0000200250
COL ID 3PM2H
BDTFX ID 75511
INPN ID 103582
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Synonyms

Indigofera virgata Indigofera dosua

Lower taxons

Indigofera dosua var. dosua Indigofera dosua var. simlensis