Indigofera coeruleaGillett & Ali [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Indigofera coeruleaGillett & Ali [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
Indigofera coerula
Indigofera argentea
Indigofera coerulea
Flora
Entry for INDIGOFERA coerulea Roxb. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin (Acacia by M. Thulin, A. S. Hassan & B. T. Styles) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
INDIGOFERA coeruleaRoxb. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1832). Fig. 222 B.
Information
Shrubby herb up to 1 m tall; stems, leaf- and inflorescence-rhachides densely appressed silvery pubescent. Leaf-rhachis up to 8 cm long including a petiole of up to 2 cm. Leaflets 5–9(–11), obovate or oblong-obovate, up to 32 x 23 mm, strigulose on both sides or glabrous above. Racemes many-flowered, up to 4 cm long, subsessile. Calyx 1.5 mm long; lobes triangular, about as long as the tube. Standard brownish strigulose outside. Stamens 3–3.5 mm long. Pod c. 15 x 2–3 mm, deflexed, curved, torulose with oblong-elliptic segments, indehiscent, strigulose, 3–4-seeded.