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Indigofera leptocarpa Eckl. & Zeyh.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Indigofera

Characteristics

Prostrate, scrambling to erect suffrutex, up to 0.4 m high; stems slender, flexuous, angular, ribbed, strigose, greenish red. Leaves unifoliolate or digitately 3-foliolate; petioles 0.5-4.0 mm long. Terminal leaflet 4-30 x 0.5-4.0 mm, linear to oblanceolate, ± complicate, subglaucous, strigose, apex often recurved. Inflorescences of 20-50(90) mm long, 7-25-flowered racemes; peduncle 5-16 mm long; pedicels 1-2 mm long. Flowers 5-6 mm long, red; calyx (2.6)3.0-3.5 mm long, strigose; lobes ± stiffly lanceolate-subulate, 2-3 x tube length; standard strigose dorsally. Stamens 3-4 mm long. Ovary densely strigose. Flowering time Oct.-Apr. Pod 12-22 x 2.0-2.5 mm.
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Suffruticose, slender, thinly strigillose; branches flexuous, subangular; leaves on short petioles, trifoliolate; leaflets linear, recurved, pointed, complicate, longer than the petiole; stipules minute, tooth-like; racemes laxly few-flowered, on short peduncles; calyx-segments subulate; legumes tereti-compressed, about 4-seeded, thinly strigillose.
Slender, erect or sprawling, angularly branched shrublet to 30 cm. Leaves 1-3-foliolate, leaflets linear or oblanceolate, minutely hairy; stipules minute. Flowers in racemes on short peduncles, red to purple.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.4
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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 leptocarpa world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:499559-1
WFO ID wfo-0000193142
COL ID 6N87C
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Synonyms

Indigofera thesioides Indigofera leptocarpa
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