A spreading annual herb ; up to 30 cm tall , often with a woody stock . Stems ± erect to ascending or trailing , appressed white-strigose . Leaves imparipinnate with 3-5 leaflets ; leaflets 7-20(-22) x 4-8 mm , the terminal leaflets largest , opposite , obovate , obtuse or retuse at the apex , entire margins , white-hairy to glabrous above , strigose-pubescent beneath . Inflorescences borne in axillary racemes , shortly pedunculate . Flowers deep pink or red ; calyx ± 2mm , linear , densely white-hairy ; sepal-cup is 2-3 mm long , velvet-hairy ; corolla with the standard ± 2 mm ; stamens 3–4 mm long . Fruit pods , 12-15 x 2-3 m , somewhat flattened , curved upwards , beaked , with the transverse ridges of septa visible . Seeds ±2 × 1 . 3 mm , flat , kidney-shaped , yellowish , smooth . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 2) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
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Elasmocarpus ornithopodiodes Hochst.
Indigofera arenaria A.Rich.
Indigofera ornithopodioides Jaub. & Spach
Indigofera semhaensis Vierh.
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Sind Indigo
Hochstetter 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. *http://www.flowersofindia.net
