Indigofera frutescens L.F.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Indigofera

Characteristics

Shrubby, robust, erect; branches terete, the young twigs silky; leaves laxly 2-4-jugate, the common petiole channelled, with a rough, dark gland between each pair of leaflets; leaflets obovate, mucronulate, flat, glaucous, minutely puberulent, becoming glabrous; stipules minute, deciduous; racemes erect, scarcely longer than the leaf, laxly several flowered; bracts minute, subulate, deciduous; calyx canescent, very open, obsoletely and bluntly 3-toothed; petals silky; legumes spreading or pendulous, terete, corrugated, glabrous, many-seeded.
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Stout shrub to 3 m. Leaves pinnately 5-9-foliolate, petiole longer than 13 mm, rachis deeply channelled; leaflets obovate to elliptic, glabrous or minutely hairy, glaucous, often fleshy, 13-25 mm long. Flowers in racemes on peduncles shorter than leaves, mauve, red or pink, to 15 mm long, back of standard petal minutely hairy. Pods glabrous, spreading to deflexed.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

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Usage

Uses medicinal
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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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Images

Indigofera frutescens unspecified picture

Distribution

Indigofera frutescens world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:499363-1
WFO ID wfo-0000192192
COL ID 3PM4K
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Synonyms

Indigofera cylindrica Indigofera frutescens