Perennial herb ; up to 40 cm tall . Stems prostrate to ascending , much-branched , woody , often with herbaceous annual stems , appressed white-pilose and glandular with sessile or shortly stalked glands . Leaves imparipinnate with 13-15 leaflets ; leaflets 3-5 x 2-2 . 5 mm , opposite , obovate , apex obtuse with a mucro , base tapering , white-hairy . Inflorescences in long axillary racemes , exceeding the subtending leaves . Flowers scarlet red ; calyx 1-1 . 5 mm , linear , densely pubescent ; corolla standard pubescent outside ; stamens c . 3 mm long . Fruit pods , 10-15 mm , straight , not flattened , appressed white-hairy and with glandular hairs , brown when ripe , 2–5-seeded . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 2) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
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Indigofera argentea L.
Indigofera brachycarpa Graham
Indigofera burmanni Boiss.
Indigofera retusa Graham
Indigofera simplicifolia Dennst.
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Not known
Not used traditionally. However, Ghazanfar (2007) wrote that: "The young shoots are heavily browsed by goats and camels". (Ref. Flora of Oman; vol.2).
*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.
