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INDIGOFERA microcarpa Desv. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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 microcarpa Desv. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Journ. de Bot., sér 2, 3: 79 (1814); Gillett in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 542 (1958) & in K.B., Add. Ser. 1: 110 (1958); Torre in C.F.A. 3: 129 (1962). Type: Brazil, collector unknown (P, holo.)
Information
Prostrate herb, white strigose or pubescent, the older stems glabrescent. Leaflets 7–11. Inflorescence dense, up to 5 cm. long, including a peduncle of up to 1 cm. Calyx hirsute, ± 2.5 mm. long, deeply divided into sublinear lobes. Stamens ± 3 mm. long. Pedicels reflexed after flowering. Fruit torulose, up to 8 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide and 2 mm. thick, apparently indehiscent, pubescent, 2–4-seeded.
Range
DISTR. K7; T4, 5, 8 Senegal to Nigeria, southern Ethiopia, southern tropical Africa, Madagascar, tropical America; doubtfully native in the Old World, where it seems to be extending its range; no specimen was collected in East Africa before 1926
Altitude range
0–1200 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kilifi, 4 Feb. 1946, Jeffery 457!KENYA Lamu District Mkunumbi, Feb. 1957, Rawlins 365 !TANGANYIKA Tabora District Malongwe, 11 Jan. 1926, Peter 45880!TANGANYIKA Mpwapwa District Kimagai Lake, 26 Aug. 1933, B. D. Burtt 4798 ! & Lake Nzui, 16 June 1937, Hornby 934 !
Notes
Readily distinguished from all other species of Indigofera in Africa by the well-developed impressed glands on the lower leaf-surface.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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 microcarpa Desv. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Journ. de Bot., sér 2, 3: 79 (1814); Gillett in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 542 (1958) & in K.B., Add. Ser. 1: 110 (1958); Torre in C.F.A. 3: 129 (1962). Type: Brazil, collector unknown (P, holo.)
Information
Prostrate herb, white strigose or pubescent, the older stems glabrescent. Leaflets 7–11. Inflorescence dense, up to 5 cm. long, including a peduncle of up to 1 cm. Calyx hirsute, ± 2.5 mm. long, deeply divided into sublinear lobes. Stamens ± 3 mm. long. Pedicels reflexed after flowering. Fruit torulose, up to 8 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide and 2 mm. thick, apparently indehiscent, pubescent, 2–4-seeded.
Range
DISTR. K7; T4, 5, 8 Senegal to Nigeria, southern Ethiopia, southern tropical Africa, Madagascar, tropical America; doubtfully native in the Old World, where it seems to be extending its range; no specimen was collected in East Africa before 1926
Altitude range
0–1200 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kilifi, 4 Feb. 1946, Jeffery 457!KENYA Lamu District Mkunumbi, Feb. 1957, Rawlins 365 !TANGANYIKA Tabora District Malongwe, 11 Jan. 1926, Peter 45880!TANGANYIKA Mpwapwa District Kimagai Lake, 26 Aug. 1933, B. D. Burtt 4798 ! & Lake Nzui, 16 June 1937, Hornby 934 !
Notes
Readily distinguished from all other species of Indigofera in Africa by the well-developed impressed glands on the lower leaf-surface.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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 microcarpa Desv. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Journ. de Bot., sér 2, 3: 79 (1814); Gillett in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 542 (1958) & in K.B., Add. Ser. 1: 110 (1958); Torre in C.F.A. 3: 129 (1962). Type: Brazil, collector unknown (P, holo.)
Information
Prostrate herb, white strigose or pubescent, the older stems glabrescent. Leaflets 7–11. Inflorescence dense, up to 5 cm. long, including a peduncle of up to 1 cm. Calyx hirsute, ± 2.5 mm. long, deeply divided into sublinear lobes. Stamens ± 3 mm. long. Pedicels reflexed after flowering. Fruit torulose, up to 8 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide and 2 mm. thick, apparently indehiscent, pubescent, 2–4-seeded.
Range
DISTR. K7; T4, 5, 8 Senegal to Nigeria, southern Ethiopia, southern tropical Africa, Madagascar, tropical America; doubtfully native in the Old World, where it seems to be extending its range; no specimen was collected in East Africa before 1926
Altitude range
0–1200 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kilifi, 4 Feb. 1946, Jeffery 457!KENYA Lamu District Mkunumbi, Feb. 1957, Rawlins 365 !TANGANYIKA Tabora District Malongwe, 11 Jan. 1926, Peter 45880!TANGANYIKA Mpwapwa District Kimagai Lake, 26 Aug. 1933, B. D. Burtt 4798 ! & Lake Nzui, 16 June 1937, Hornby 934 !
Notes
Readily distinguished from all other species of Indigofera in Africa by the well-developed impressed glands on the lower leaf-surface.
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