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Indigofera brachynema

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Identification
Indigofera colutea Baker f. ex J.B.Gillett [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Verified by Gillett,J.B., Indigofera brachynema J.B.Gillett [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name);
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Flora

Entry for INDIGOFERA brachynema Gillett [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 brachynema Gillett [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1970).
INDIGOFERA colutea Bak. f. ex Gillett var. linearis [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in Kew Bull., Add. Ser. 1: 65 (1958).
Information
Erect annual, up to 35 cm tall, ± appressed white-pubescent throughout, stem, leaf-rhachis and pod also with short erect multicellular glandular hairs. Leaf-rhachis up to 4 cm long including a petiole longer than the basal leaflets. Leaflets 7–11, narrowly elliptic, up to 15 x 3 mm, margins not glandular. Racemes 6–20-flowered, about as long as subtending leaf. Calyx c. 2 mm long, deeply divided. Standard pubescent outside. Stamens 2.3–3 mm long. Style 0.7–1 mm long, bent abruptly up near the base. Pod 10–18 x 1.6 mm, spreading, straight, shortly glandular pubescent, 9–13-seeded.
Range
S2, 3 Ethiopia, Kenya and south to Zimbabwe and Angola.
Altitude range
5–30 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Warfa 4536; Senni 243; Gillett & al. 25065.

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