Indigofera garckeana Vatke

Softly woody shrub up to 3 m. tall, but sometimes flowering on much shorter coppiced shoots; stems 3–4-angled or winged, strigulose or pubescent.. Stipules subulate-setaceous, up to 10 mm. long; rhachis rather flattened, brownish or whitish pubescent, ± 10 cm. long, including a petiole of up to 3 cm., prolonged up to 10 mm. beyond the lateral leaflets; stipellae filiform, up to 3 mm. long; petiolules up to 4 mm. long; leaflets 5–9, rarely 3 or 11–13, oblong-elliptic, apiculate, up to 5 cm. long and 2.8 cm. wide, usually strigulose on both surfaces, pubescent on the nerves beneath.. Racemes brownish strigulose or pubescent, many-flowered, up to 25 cm. long in fruit, including a peduncle of ± 2–3 cm.; bracts lanceolate, erect, up to 8 mm. long, caducous; pedicels ± 2 mm. in flower, reflexed and ± 3 mm. long in fruit.. Calyx densely strigulose, nearly 2 mm. long; lobes broadly triangular, shorter than the tube.. Corolla densely golden-brown strigulose outside.. Stamens 12–13 mm. long.. Pod usually upturned and pointed at the tip, the style-base not thickened, somewhat tetragonal, 5–6 cm. long, ± 3.5 mm. wide and 3 mm. thick, strigulose, 13–17-seeded; endocarp spotted.. Fig. 44/10, p. 298.

Scattered-trees grassland; deciduous, Brachystegia woodland; wooded savannah or open forest on sand; under slight shade on tamped soil; bushland; at elevations from 550-1,950 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.