WorldFloraDB - Indigofera sessilifolia

Characteristics

Erect, woody suffrutices, up to 0.6 m high; young stems rigid, ± geniculate, angular, densely appressed strigose. Stipules 1-3 mm long, lanceolate-subulate. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate, sessile, petioles 1-3 mm long. Terminal leaflet on rachis extending to 1 mm beyond lateral leaflets, 4-16 x 1-5(7) mm, cuneate-obovate to oblanceolate, glaucous, upper surface glabrous, lower surface strigose, apex ± rounded. Inflorescences of 10-70 mm long, 10-30(40)-flowered racemes; peduncle (1.5)3.0-14 mm long; rachis woody, spinescent; pedicels 0.5-1.5 mm long. Flowers 5-7 mm long, orange-red; calyx 1.5-2.5 mm long, ± densely strigose, lobes lanceolate-subulate; standard strigose dorsally, keel apex obtuse. Stamens (3.5)4.0-5.5 mm long. Ovary densely strigose. Flowering time Sept.-May. Pod 7-34 x 3.0-3.5 mm, flattened, often falcate, netted with veins.

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Shrubby, rigid, divaricately much branched; twigs canescent, at length spinous; leaves sessile, trifoliolate; leaflets cuneate-obovate, emarginate, thinly silky on one or both sides; racemes subsessile, few flowered, as long or twice as long as the leaves; calyx 5-toothed; petals canescent; legumes compressed, falcate, 4-3 seeded, netted with veins, thinly pubescent.

Dwarf shrub, up to 0.5 m high; rigid, divaricately branched; twigs canescent. Leaves trifoliolate; sessile; leaflets cuneate-obovate, thinly silky on one or both sides. Flowers: racemes subsessile, few-flowered; peduncle ± spinescent, usually > 20 mm long in fruit; corolla red; Sep.-Jan. Pods flat, falcate, thinly pubescent; seeds often bulging.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	shrub
Growth support	free-standing
Foliage retention	deciduous
Sexuality	hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter)	0.5
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Nitrogen fixer	rhizobia
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Environment

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Usage

Uses	animal food environmental use medicinal poison
Edible	-
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Cultivation

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

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:499987-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000195184
COL ID	3PMMP
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	-
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Synonyms

Indigofera sessilifolia Indigofera patens Indigofera hedranophylla Indigofera falcata Indigofera melolobioides

WorldFloraDB 2024

Indigofera sessilifolia Dc.

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