Perennial herb ; up to 20 cm high , with creeping stems , almost forming mats , densely covered with ± spreading silvery hairs . Stems older brownish , younger grey-green , appressed white-hairy . Leaves imparipinnate with 5 leaflets ; stipules linear ; leaflets 2-4 x 2-3 mm , alternate , obovate , apex truncate to emarginated , base tapering , margin entire , pubescent on both surfaces , young leaves yellow-green . Inflorescences ± sessile , in axillary racemes , much longer than the subtending leaf . Flowers scarlet red , ± 2 mm , deflexed after maturation ; calyx ± 2 . 5 mm long , deeply divided ; corolla standard pubescent outside ; stamens 10 , ± 3 mm long , 9 fused , 1 free . Fruit pods , 4-6 , not flattened , straight , reflexing downwards , beaked , whitish brown , 2-seeded . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 2) .
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Not Threatened (NT) - Globoal Assessment
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Indigofera saltiana Steud.
Indigofera somalensis Vatke
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Not known
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.
