Indigofera pungens E.Mey.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Indigofera

Characteristics

Shrubby, rigid, divaricately branched, strigoso-canescent, the terete branches and twigs spinescent; leaves solitary, trifoliolate; leaflets obovate-oblong, strigose on both surfaces; stipules obsolete; racemes subsessile, much longer than the leaf, on rigid rachides which become spinous; calyx canescent, shortly 5-toothed; petals pubescent; legumes straight, compressed, with thickened sutures, narrowed at base, curve-pointed, the valves somewhat keeled in the centre, strigose.
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Rounded, spinescent, bushy shrub, up to 1 m tall, stems woody below, rigid, divaricately branched, terete and green, greyish strigose above. Leaves few, digitately 3-foliolate, leaflets obovate-oblong. Flowers in subsessile to shortly pedunculate, stiffly ascending axillary racemes, red, calyx densely strigose, shorter than stamens, lobes subulate, ± as long as tube, standard densely strigose on back. Pod laterally compressed.
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
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture 6-7
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
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
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

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

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:499885-1
WFO ID wfo-0000194714
COL ID 3PMK9
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Indigofera pungens