Erect , branched , perennial undershrub ; up to 50 cm tall , everywhere densely appressed silvery pubescent . Stems grey-white , erect to ascending , spreading , appressed white-hairy . Leaves imparipinnate with 3-7 leaflets , purple-green ; stipules small , linear , falling soon ; leaflets 5-15 x 5-10 mm , the terminal leaflet the largest , opposite , obovate , apex emarginate , base tapering . Inflorescences in axillary racemes , shorter than the subtending leaf . Flowers dark red ; calyx 1-2 mm , lobes triangular ; corolla with standard petal yellow with red margins ; stamens 3 mm long ; ovary sessile , pubescent , style glabrous , stigma capitate . Fruit pod , 7-10 x 2-3 mm , brown , not flattened , attached straight or reflexing downwards , slightly curved upwards , densely appressed white-hairy , somewhat constricted in between the seeds , beaked , indehiscent , 2–4-seeded . Seeds round . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 2) .
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Indigofera articulata var. brachycarpa Vatke
Indigofera glauca Lam.
Indigofera tinctoria Forssk.
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Not used traditionally. However, Ghazanfar (2007) wrote that: "Grazed by all livestock". (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. *Patzelt, A. (2015). Photographic Field Guide to the Plants of the Western Hajar Mountains, Sultanate of Oman: with a complete checklist of vascular plant species. Sultan Qaboos University – Academic Publication and Outreach Department. P.O Pox (17) Postal Code (123), Muscat, Al khoudh, Sultanate of Oman.
