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INDIGOFERA spinosa Forssk. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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 spinosa Forssk. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1775).
Information
Shrublet, much-branched, up to 50 cm tall. Leaflets 3(–7), opposite, elliptic, cuneate-obovate or oblanceolate, up to 9 x 4 mm, strigulose above, densely strigose beneath. Axis of inflorescence 6–25(–40) mm long, ending in a glabrescent spine. Racemes numerous, 2–4(–8)-flowered. Calyx 1.2–2.5 mm long, divided to the middle. Standard pubescent outside. Stamens (3.2–)5–6 mm long. Pod straight, 15–20 x 1.8 mm, strigulose, 6–9-seeded.
Range
N1–3; C2; S1
Altitude range
up to 1580 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Wood S/71/61; Beckett 578; Elmi 490.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
N Sudan
Kenya
Tanzania
Arabia
Notes
Xajiin (Som.).
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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 spinosa Forssk. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1775).
Information
Shrublet, much-branched, up to 50 cm tall. Leaflets 3(–7), opposite, elliptic, cuneate-obovate or oblanceolate, up to 9 x 4 mm, strigulose above, densely strigose beneath. Axis of inflorescence 6–25(–40) mm long, ending in a glabrescent spine. Racemes numerous, 2–4(–8)-flowered. Calyx 1.2–2.5 mm long, divided to the middle. Standard pubescent outside. Stamens (3.2–)5–6 mm long. Pod straight, 15–20 x 1.8 mm, strigulose, 6–9-seeded.
Range
N1–3; C2; S1
Altitude range
up to 1580 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Wood S/71/61; Beckett 578; Elmi 490.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
N Sudan
Kenya
Tanzania
Arabia
Notes
Xajiin (Som.).
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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 spinosa Forssk. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1775).
Information
Shrublet, much-branched, up to 50 cm tall. Leaflets 3(–7), opposite, elliptic, cuneate-obovate or oblanceolate, up to 9 x 4 mm, strigulose above, densely strigose beneath. Axis of inflorescence 6–25(–40) mm long, ending in a glabrescent spine. Racemes numerous, 2–4(–8)-flowered. Calyx 1.2–2.5 mm long, divided to the middle. Standard pubescent outside. Stamens (3.2–)5–6 mm long. Pod straight, 15–20 x 1.8 mm, strigulose, 6–9-seeded.
Range
N1–3; C2; S1
Altitude range
up to 1580 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Wood S/71/61; Beckett 578; Elmi 490.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
N Sudan
Kenya
Tanzania
Arabia
Notes
Xajiin (Som.).
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