Indigofera heterotricha pechuelii
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Full name: | Indigofera heterotricha subsp. pechuelii (Kuntze) Schrire (2012) |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Indigofera pechuelii Kuntze (1886) =Indigofera fleckii Baker f. (1904) |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Glands on stems ± uniformly sessile, bladderlike, less often on short stalks up to 0.2(0.3) mm long, indumentum never hirsute or hispid (stem biramous hairs uniformly sized, mostly appressed) --> subsp. pechuelii (from Flora Zambesiaca Volume 3 Part 4, Papilionoideae: Indigofereae, Edited by J. R. Timberlake and E. S. Martins, 2012) Resembles the typical subspecies but differs in being a larger shrub or subshrub 0.4-1.5m tall with sparser habit; stems very densely to sparsely covered with ± sessile bladder-like glands, if multicellular hairs present, these sparse to 0.2(0.3) mm long with capitate glands at tips, stems never hirsute-hispide, young stems very densely ± adpressed to spreading, whitish strigose or sparsely so with stems greenish, Leaflets often folded, sometimes with thickened margins; calyx lobes triangular to narrowly so, ± equalling to 2 times time. Pod with glands present or absent. (from Flora Zambesiaca Volume 3 Part 4, Papilionoideae: Indigofereae, Edited by J. R. Timberlake and E. S. Martins, 2012) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 27 Apr 2008 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | PowerShot A700 |
| Lens aperture: | f/4.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/500 s |
| ISO speed: | - |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
