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Indigofera placida N.E.Br.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Indigofera

Characteristics

Woody subshrub, 0.2-1.5 m high, stems many-branched, angular, ± densely appressed strigose (often with dark brown to blackish hairs), pearl bodies present. Stipules 0.5-2.0(2.5) mm long, filiform. Leaves pinnately 9-19-foliolate, rachis 1.5-40.0 mm long; petioles 1.0-2.5 mm long. Terminal leaflet (5)6-15 x 2-5 mm, oblanceolate to oblong-elliptic, apex rounded; glabrous, often paler green above, appressed strigose beneath. Inflorescences of 20-100 mm long, ± densely (15)25-60-flowered racemes; peduncle 12-35 mm long; pedicels 3-6 mm long. Flowers 4.0-4.5 mm long, red; calyx 1.5-2.0(2.5) mm long, ± densely strigose; lobes lanceolate to subulate, up to 3x tube length; standard densely ferruginous to dark brown strigose dorsally; keel apex obtuse. Stamens 3-4 mm long. Flowering time Nov.-Mar. Pod 16-28 x 1.5-2.5 mm.
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A shrub or shrublet with dark brown branches, thinly adpressed-pubescent when young, becoming glabrous. Leaves 1.5-2.5 cm long; leaflets 7-11, the lateral opposite in 3-5 pairs, 5-10 mm long, 2.5-4 mm broad, oblong to elliptic, obtuse, apiculate, flat, glabrous above, thinly adpressed-pubescent beneath, drying blackish. Racemes 2-5 cm long, longer than the leaves, slender, 12-24-flowered with the peduncle below the lowest scar of fallen flowers 2-2.5 cm long. Pedicels 2.5-3 mm long. Calyx 1.5 mm long. Corolla 4 mm long, purple. Pods unknown.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.2 - 1.5
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Environment

Light -
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Soil texture 7-8
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Usage

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Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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

Indigofera placida world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:499825-1
WFO ID wfo-0000194401
COL ID 3PMHT
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Indigofera rufescens Indigofera placida
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