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Indigofera rogersii

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Identification
Indigofera rogersii R.E.Fr. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] Indigofera vicioides Jaub. & Spach [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] (stored under name); Indigofera unrecorded unrecorded [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ]
Related name
  • Indigofera rogersii
  • Indigofera vicioides
  • Indigofera unrecorded

Flora

Entry for INDIGOFERA vicioïdes (R. E. Fries) Gillett var. rogersii [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 vicioïdes (R. E. Fries) Gillett var. rogersii [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in K.B., Add. Ser. 1: 73 (1958); Torre in C.F.A. 3 116 (1962). Type: Zambia, near Broken Hill, Chirukutu, R. E. Fries 245 (UPS, holo.)
INDIGOFERA rogersii R. E. Fries [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Schwed. Rhod.-Kongo Exped. 1: 80 (1914)
Information
Differs from var. vicioïdes in being more often perennial and in its indumentum which consists of long soft spreading hairs, and is often present on the upper leaf-surface.
Range
DISTR. K4; T1, 2,4, 7
Altitude range
900–1200 m.
Distribution
KENYA Embu District Emberre, 19 Sept. 1932, M. D. Graham in A.D. 2191!KENYA Machakos District Chyulu foothills, 18 May 1938, Bally 648 !TANGANYIKA Mwanza District S. Urima, Feb. 1933, Rounce 278!TANGANYIKA Moshi District Himo road, May 1927, Haarer 683!TANGANYIKA Ufipa District Milepa, 20 Feb. 1950, Bullock 2493!
Distribution (external)
; Congo
Mozambique
Malawi
Zambia
Rhodesia
Angola (fide Torre (1962))
South Africa (Transvaal, Natal)
Notes
VARIATION. Both varieties vary greatly, especially in southern Africa. It is not always clear whether apparently annual plants are truly monocarpic or perennials flowering in their first year.

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