Indigofera unrecordedunrecorded [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] Indigofera cryptanthaBenth. ex Harv. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] (stored under name); Indigofera pityophyllaDrake [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ]
Related name
Indigofera desmodioides
Indigofera cryptantha
Indigofera unrecorded
Indigofera pityophylla
Flora
Entry for INDIGOFERA cryptantha Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
INDIGOFERA cryptanthaBenth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! in Herb.
Information
shrubby, erect, much-branched, thinly strigillose; branches angular and furrowed; leaves petiolate, 5–8 jugate; leaflets linear-sublanceolate (rarely subalternate), or narrow-oblong obovate, acute or subobtuse, often folded, microscopically strigillose beneath, the terminal petioled; stipules minute or obsolete; racemes subsessile, shorter than the leaf, laxly several-flowered; bracts subulate, flowers small; calyx teeth short; petals downy; legumes moniliform-torulose, much constricted between the seeds, 4–5 seeded. A much-branched, leafy, erect shrub, turning dark in drying. Leaves 1 1/2–2 inches long; the pairs of leaflets 2 lines apart. Leaflets 1/2– 3/4 inch long, 1–2 lines wide. Flowers small, hidden among the dense leaves. Legumes almost jointed, glabrescent. Allied to I. tinctoria.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Crocodile River, Burke & Zeyher! 473. Coast land, Natal, Dr. Sutherland. (Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd., D.)
