Indigofera arabica Jaub. & Spach

This species is native to NE Tropical Africa, Sinai to Arabian Peninsula and Pakistan. (Ref. POWO; 2022). There are 16 species of Indigofera found in Oman. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).

علم تشكل النبات


Annual herb often with a woody stock or a perennial herb with annual stems ; up to 30 cm long , the whole plant appear grey-green , appressed white-hairy . Stems ascending to prostrate , diffusely branched from the base . Leaves opposite , imparipinnate with 3-5 leaflets , or sometimes 1-foliolate ; leaflets 7-15 x 4-5 mm , oblong to oblong-lanceolate to obovate or elliptic , entire margins , obtuse often with a short mucro , base tapering , white-hairy . Inflorescences in axillary racemes , short peduncled , shorter than the leaf . Flowers ± sessile , red ; calyx sessile ± 1 mm , acute , densely white-hairy ; corolla with the standard ± 2 mm ; stamens c . 4 . 5 mm long . Fruit pods , 5-8 x 3-5 mm , flattened , grey-green , beaked , 2-5-seeded . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 2) .

وقت الإزهار


No Data

الوضع البيئي الحالي


Not Evaluated (NE)

الوفرة


Frequent

التوزيع الجغرافي والبيئي


الوصف غير متاح حاليًا

Distribution Map

المرادفات


Anil arabica (Jaub. & Spach) Kuntze

الإكثار


No data

العناية بالنبات


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الأسماء الشائعة


Not known

الأسماء المحلية


shajarat al aqrab (Northern Oman)
hethirae (Mehri)
Indigofera arabica_hethirae (Mehri)-07082024
Indigofera arabica_hethirae (Mehri)-07082024-24062025

الاستخدامات


Not recorded yet

المراجع


*POWO (2022). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org *Ghazanfar, S. (2007). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.2: Crassulaceae – Apiaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 36). ISBN 9789072619747 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5.

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