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Indigofera dyeri

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Identification
Indigofera dyeri Britten [family LEGUMINOSAE ]
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Flora

Entry for INDIGOFERA dyeri Britten [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1971) Author: J. B. GILLETT, R. M. POLHILL & B. VERDCOURT
Names
INDIGOFERA dyeri Britten [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in J.B. 35: 453 (1897); Gillett in K.B., Add. Ser. 1: 67 (1958) & in K.B. 24: 491 (1970). Type: Malawi, Northern Province, Songwe R. to Karonga, Whyte (K, holo.!)
INDIGOFERA macra Bak. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in K.B. 1897: 255 (1897), non E. Mey (1836), nom. illegit. Type: as for species
INDIGOFERA nematopoda Bak. f. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in Vier. Nat. Ges. Zür. 70: 216, fig. 3 (1925). Type: Rhodesia, Holub (Z, holo. !)
Information
Erect branching annual up to 30 cm. tall; stems slender, covered with ± appressed white biramous hairs, and usually also having a few rather long erect multicellular hairs. Leaves free from multicellular hairs; stipules spreading, subulate, setaceous, ± 4 mm. long; rhachis up to 25 mm. long, including a petiole of 4–10 mm., prolonged 2–4 mm. beyond lateral leaflets; leaflets 5–9(very rarely –11), narrowly elliptic-oblong, up to 16 mm. long and 4 mm. wide, strigulose above, strigose beneath. Raceme free from multicellular hairs, 8–15-flowered, up to 4 cm. long including a peduncle of ± 1 cm.; bracts ± 1 mm. long, caducous; pedicels ± 1 mm. long. Calyx strigulose, 2–3 mm. long; lobes setaceous. Stamens ± 3 mm. long. Style 2–2.5 mm. long. Pods cylindrical, up to 10 mm. long, ±1.5 mm. wide, densely and stiffly white strigulose, free from multicellular hairs, ± 6-seeded; endocarp spotted.
Range
DISTR. K7; T5
Altitude range
0–1500 m.
Distribution
KENYA Mombasa District Likoni, Oct. 1933, Mainwaring in Napier 3040 !TANGANYIKA Mpwapwa District Kongwa, 1952, Lea in E.A.H. 11506 !
Distribution (external)
; Mozambique
Malawi
Zambia
Rhodesia
Notes
VARIATION. Occasional specimens, such as Holub s.n. and Mainwaring 3040, are almost totally devoid of the usual multicellular hairs. Such plants may be distinguished from 82, I. subargentea var. shinyangensis by their shorter pods, fewer leaflets and longer styles.

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