Indigofera quinquefolia E.Mey.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Indigofera

Characteristics

Dwarf, shrubby, ascending, much branched; leaves minutely petioled, digitately 5-foliolate; leaflets cuneate-oblong, convolute, subterete, channelled above, round-lacked, hairy, mucronulate; stipules minute, subulate; racemes on short peduncles, scarcely twice as long as the leaves, few-flowered; rachis capillary, flexuous; calyx-segments subulate; petals hairy; legumes... ?
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Bushy shrublet to 20 cm tall, closely leafy. Leaves digitately 5-foliolate, subsessile or shortly petiolate; leaflets cuneate-oblong, subterete with margins strongly involute, coarsely hairy. Flowers few in racemes on wiry peduncles ± as long as or longer than leaves, pink or purple, back of standard petal minutely hairy. Pods glabrous, spreading.
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
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Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity 1-3
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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 quinquefolia world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:499893-1
WFO ID wfo-0000194734
COL ID 3PMKF
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Indigofera quinquefolia