Much-branched shrublet ; up to 50 cm tall , young stems appressed silvery . Stems woody , grey-green , erect to ascending , lateral branches ending in sharp points ; the whole appressed white-hairy . Leaves imparipinnate , 1-foliolate ; stipules minute ; leaflet 4-14 x 2-6 mm , grey-green or purplish green , oblong to oblong-ovate , apex obtuse to rounded and emarginate , base tapering . Inflorescences sessile , axillary on lateral stems . Flowers orange-red , ± 4 mm ; calyx ± 3 mm , lobes acuminate ; corolla with standard petal ± 5 mm ; stamens 3-3 . 5 mm long . Fruit pods , 9-11 x ± 2 mm , not flattened , often reflexing downwards , beaked , appressed white-hairy , browny white when mature , c . 4-6-seeded . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 2) .
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Not Threatened (NT) - Globoal Assessment
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Indigofera spinosa var. spiniflora (Hochst. ex Boiss.) Schweinf.
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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.
