Indigofera filipesHarv. [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Indigofera filipesHarv. [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
Indigofera longipes
Indigofera filipes
Indigofera unrecorded
Flora
Entry for INDIGOFERA filipes Benth. [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 filipesBenth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in Herb.
Information
annual, slender, erect, branching, thinly strigillose; branches angular and furrowed; leaves subsessile, 3–4 jugate; leaflets linear-lanceolate, acute, strigillose beneath, the terminal petioled; stipules small, subulate; racemes on long, filiform peduncles, laxly few flowered; bracts subulate, minute; calyx-segments subulate; petals thinly downy; legumes? Very slender, 12–18 inches high, with many erect, laxly leafy branches. Leaves an inch apart; the common petiole about an inch long, bearing the first pair of leaflets near its base, the other pairs 3–4 lines apart. Leaflets 3/4 inch long, not a line wide, acute at each end. Peduncles setaceous, 2–3 inches long, with a very few small flowers near the apex; pedicels 1–2 lines long. This has the habit of I. macra and I. parviflora.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Caledon River, Burke, Zeyher! 472. Zooloo Country, Miss Owen! (Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd., D.)