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Indigofera spinescens

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Name

Identification
Indigofera spinescens E.Mey. [family FABACEAE ]
Related name
  • Indigofera spinescens

Flora

Entry for INDIGOFERA spinescens E. Mey. [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 spinescens E. Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! Comm. p. 93
Information
shrubby, rigid, divaricately branched; the branches and twigs terete, spinescent; leaves subfasciculate, trifoliolate, on very short petioles; leaflets (minute) obovate, concave, thick, glabrous above, minutely strigillose beneath; stipules obsolete; racemes subsessile, laxly few-flowered, scarcely exceeding the leaf; calyx pubescent, bluntly 5-fid; petals pubescent; legumes terete, straight. A very scraggy, small bush. Leaflets about 1–1 1/2 lines long, 1/2 line wide, pale green. Flowers very small. I have not seen legumes.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Dry rocky, mountain ground in Namaqualand. Leliefontein, 4000f., and Witpoort, and Zwaanepoelspoort, 3600f., Drege! (Herb. Bth., Hk., D.)
Notes
The specimens above quoted are all imperfect.

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