Indigofera gifbergensis C.H.Stirt. & Jarvie

Erect shrub up to 1 m tall, dense; woody below, half herbaceous above; branches set close, stiff; appressed strigulose when young but glabrous when mature. Stipules fused, adnate to base of petiole, up to 4 mm long, acute, glabrous. Leaves scarce, imparipinnate. Leaflets obovate, 3-5, 6-8 x 3.0-3.5 mm, base obtuse, apex recurved mucronate, glabrous above, covered in few flattened hairs around margin below. Petiole 14-15 mm long; petiolules 0.5 mm long. Inflorescences axillary, racemose, lax, 15-30-flowered; peduncle 60-140 mm long. Flowers 5-6(7) mm long, red, each subtended by a 2.0-2.3 mm long, narrowly triangular, rapidly caducous bract; pedicel <1 mm long. Calyx 2-3 mm long; tube 1.5 mm long; teeth equal, 1.5 mm long, triangular, sparsely fringed with flattened biramous hairs. Standard broadly elliptic, 5-6 x 4.0-4.5 mm; claw short; auricles absent; apex rounded; appendages absent. Wing petals 5.5-6.0 x 2.0-2.5 mm, upper part flattened near the margin, raised above but equal in length to the keel blades, few scattered hairs present. Keel blades 6 mm long, 2-3 mm wide at maximum, fringed along upper margin. Androecium 5 mm long; vexillar stamen free; anthers uniform, 0.7-0.8 mm long, broadly apiculate, anthers on long filaments basifixed, anthers on short filaments dorsifixed; scales absent. Pistil 5.0-5.5 mm long, glabrous, narrowly oblong, sessile, 7-8-ovuled; style upcurved, height of curvature 2 mm; stigma capitate. Fruits narrowly oblong, 25-30 x 2.5-3.0 mm, chestnut-brown, dehiscent; inner surface shiny white; septa up to 2 mm wide, barrel-shaped, separating the seeds, white with red flecks when in dry state. Seeds elliptic, 2.5-2.7 x 1.7-1.8 mm, dark chestnut or khaki, covered in large black blotches and stripes with small speckles in between; hilum exserted.