Fabaceae
Indigofera

Indigofera nyassica Gilli

First published in Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 74: 433 (1970 publ. 1971)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tanzania to S. Tropical Africa. It is an annual or shrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Leguminosae, J. B. Gillett, R. M. Polhill & B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1971

Morphology General Habit
Erect annual or short-lived perennial herb, usually with rather purplish stems, up to 2 m. tall, everywhere covered with short appressed biramous hairs which are almost all brown or blackish on the pod, corolla and calyx, mixed brown and white on the inflorescence and mainly white elsewhere; multicellular hairs usually present on the pods, sometimes elsewhere.
Morphology Leaves
Stipules subulate, 1–4 mm. long; leaf-rhachis up to 4 cm. long including a petiole of 2–15 mm., prolonged 2–8 mm. beyond the lateral leaflets; leaflets 5–11, narrowly elliptic-oblong, up to 25mm. long and 10 mm. broad.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes many-flowered, ± secund, usually dense, up to 10 cm. long including a peduncle of up to 3 cm.; pedicels up to 1.5 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx dark brown, with triangular-subulate teeth up to half as long as the 2.5–3.5 mm. long filaments.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod spreading or somewhat ascending, cylindrical, 3–7 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, the multicellular hairs, when present, pale, 1- or more often 2-seeded; endocarp hardly spotted.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds yellowish, smooth.
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian woodland
Morphology General Habit
Annual, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • International Legume Database and Information Service

    • International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • World Checklist of Vascular plants (WCVP)

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0