Annual to short-lived perennial herb ; up to 25 cm high , covered in velvet-hairs . Stems woody , branched , decumbent to ± prostrate , white-pilose and glandular with black brown glands . Leaves imparipinnate with 7-9 leaflets ; leaflets 5-9 x ± 5 mm , opposite , obovate to broadly elliptic , appressrd pilose , apex obtuse with a mucro , base tapering . Infloescences borne in stalked racemes in leaf-axils . Flowers red ; calyx ± 2mm , linear , pilose ; corolla with standard petal ± 3 mm , dark red within , pale without , wings reddish , keel green , ± 2 mm ; stamens 3-3 . 5(-4) mm long ; style 1 . 2-1 . 6 mm long , slightly curved upwards . Fruit pods , (10-)18-20 x ± 1 . 5 mm , straight , not flattened , glandular and appressed pilose , becoming purple tinged when ripe , 8-14-seeded . Seeds 1-1 . 2 x 1 mm , shortly cylindrical to quadrangular , slightly wringkled . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 2) .
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Not Threatened (NT) - Globoal Assessment
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Galega colutea Burm.f.
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Rusty Indigo
Sticky Indigo
Not used traditionally.
*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.
