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Family: | Fabaceae |
Full name: | Indigofera vicioides Jaub. & Spach var. vicioides |
Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
ID status: | ID not 100% certain |
Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
English common name(s): | - |
Synonym(s): | Indigofera divaricata De Wild. Indigofera semlikiensis Robyns & Boutique Indigofera tenuicaulis Klotzsch Indigofera transvaalensis Baker f. |
Status: | Native |
Description: | White, rose-pink to dark pink flowers. Indigofera vicioides: Spreading annual or perennial herb; branches strigulose to pilose. Stipules spreading, narrowly triangular or subulate-setaceous, up to 5 mm long; rnachis strigulose, up to 5 cm long, including a petiole of 3–7 mm, prolonged up to 5 mm beyond lateral leaflets; leaflets 5–13, narrowly oblong-elliptic or lanceolate, rounded or acute at the apex, apiculate, up to 15 mm long and 5 mm wide. Racemes strigulose to pilose, laxly 5–15-flowered, up to 10 cm long including a peduncle of ± one-third their length; bracts lanceolate, ± 1.5 mm long, very caducous; pedicels up to 1.5 mm long in fruit. Calyx ± 2 mm long; lobes subulate. Corolla pubescent outside. Stamens ± 3 mm long. Pod somewhat torulose, with broad (± 0.5 mm wide) sutures, 8–17 mm long, ± 2 mm wide and 1.8 mm thick, pubescent; endocarp spotted. Seeds 4–8, pitted. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Tropical East Africa) Indigofera vicioides var vicioides: Annual or perennial. Branches and rhachides of leaves and racemes strigulose. Leaflets glabrous or nearly so above. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Tropical East Africa) |
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: | 20 Dec 2008 |
Camera make: | Canon |
Camera model: | PowerShot A700 |
Lens aperture: | f/4.0 |
Shutter speed: | 1/400 s |
ISO speed: | - |
Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
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