Indigofera monantha Baker F.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Indigofera

Characteristics

Spreading annual up to 10 cm. tall; hairs up to 1 mm. long, various, some finer, unequally biramous, spreading at the tips, others especially on the lower leaf-surface stiff, medifixed, appressed.. Stipules linear up to 6 mm. long; rhachis up to 17 mm. long including a petiole of up to 7 mm., prolonged 1–3 mm. beyond the lateral leaflets; leaflets 1–7, obovate, broadly elliptic or suborbicular, obtuse, up to 10 mm. long and 9 mm. wide.. Racemes 1-flowered, the peduncle filiform, nearly glabrous, up to 12 mm. long; bract minute, filiform, caducous; pedicel pilose, ± 1 mm. long.. Calyx 1.5 mm. long, divided for two-thirds of its length into linear-subulate lobes.. Corolla puberulent outside.. Stamens 2.5 mm. long.. Pod rather flattened, up to 12 mm. long, ± 1 mm. wide and 0.6 mm. thick, strigulose, 6–10-seeded; endocarp spotted.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.1
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 30 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 10
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment soaking
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Distribution

Indigofera monantha world distribution map, present in Angola, Burundi, Malawi, Tanzania, United Republic of, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:499683-1
WFO ID wfo-0000193802
COL ID 3PMDN
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Indigofera monantha