Annual herb often with a woody stock or perennial herb ; up to 25 cm long . Stems much branched , ± erect to ascending to prostrate , spreading , appressed white-pilose . Leaves simple , 1-foliolate , grey-green , sessile , 5-8 x 4-5 mm , broadly ovate , obtuse or acute at the apex , cordate at the base , entire margins . Inflorescences sessile , 3-4 in axillary heads . Flowers dark red ; calyx ± 4 mm , linear , pilose ; corolla with the standard ± 4 mm , bright red , about as long as the calyx , wings ± 3 mm . Fruit pods , 4-5 , somewhate flattened , appressed white pilose , long beaked , 2-seeded . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 2) .
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Not Threatened (NT) - Globoal Assessment
Frequent
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Anil cordifolia (B.Heyne ex Roth) Kuntze
Heylandia cordifolia (B.Heyne ex Roth) Graham
No data
maintenanceAr.Item1
Heart-Leaf 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. *Patzelt, A. & al. (2020). Studies in the flora of Arabia: XXXIV. Sixty new records from the Sultanate of Oman Edinburgh Journal of Botany 77: 413-437.
