Indigofera ormocarpoides Baker

Softly wooded straggling shrub or bushy suffrutex 0.8-2.5(4) m tall. Stems slender, terete, strigillose or hispidulous with whitish or brown hairs, becoming greyish, glabrous, longitudinally wrinkled and fissured below. Stipules 1-3(5) mm long, subulate-setaceous, erect or spreading, falling early. Leaves pinnately 3-5(7)-foliolate; leaf axis 1.5-5.5(8) cm long, including petiole of 9-25 mm, extended 3-18 mm beyond lateral leaflets; stipels 0.5-1.5 mm long, subulate-setaceous; terminal leaflet (16)20-55(75) x (11)17-44 mm, broadly elliptic to ovate-oblong, up to twice the size of laterals, apex obtuse, rounded or emarginate; leaflets sparsely to densely strigillose on both surfaces, hairs equally to unequally biramous, diverging at 40-50° to midrib. Racemes 1-4(7) cm long, including peduncle of 1.5-4 mm, densely 12-30(40)-flowered; bracts 1-1.5 mm long, linear-lanceolate; pedicels 1-2 mm long. Calyx c. 1 mm long, densely strigillose with closely appressed dark-brown hairs; lobes broadly triangular, shorter than tube. Corolla 6-7 mm long, back of standard very densely strigose with closely appressed dark brown hairs. Stamens 5-6 mm long. Style 1-2 mm curving erect from thickened style-base, becoming a beak in pod. Pod 35-65 x up to 2 mm, moniliform, base stipitate, ± densely strigillose, endocarp densely spotted with tannin deposits. Seeds 5-10, 2-2.8 x 1-1.2 mm, oblong, pitted, khaki to olive green.