Indigofera nudicaulis E.Mey.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Indigofera

Characteristics

Many-branched, green-stemmed shrub, 1-2 m tall, branches flexuous, striate with pale parallel ribs, densely and minutely greyish strigose. Leaves unifoliolate, few, distant, linear to narrowly obovate, often conduplicate, apex recurved. Flowers in shortly pedunculate racemes, pink, calyx densely greyish strigose, much shorter than stamens, lobes triangular-ovate, shorter than to ± equal to tube, standard densely silky strigose on back.
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Shrubby, canescent; branches flexuous, striate; leaves few, distant, simple, subsessile, linear-cuneate, convolute, recurved at point, deciduous, appressedly canescent; racemes shortly pedunculate, axillary, laxly many-flowered, elongating; flowers subsessile; vexillum silky; calyx oblique, with short, blunt lobes; legumes subterete, straight, thinly canescent.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 1.0 - 2.0
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Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture 5-8
Soil acidity -
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Hardiness (USDA) -

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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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -

Distribution

Indigofera nudicaulis world distribution map, present in Namibia and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:499730-1
WFO ID wfo-0000193988
COL ID 3PMF3
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Indigofera nudicaulis