Annual or or short-lived perennial herb ; up to 50 cm tall . Stems erect to straggling , ribbed with the ribs pale green , glabrous to sparsely appressed white-hairy , yellow-green . Leaves imparipinnate with 5-7 leaflets ; stipules linear ; leaflets 20-35 x 12-18 mm , broadly oblong to ovate , apex obtuse with a short mucro , base tapering , glabrous above , appressed hairy beneath . Inflorescences in axillary racemes . Flowers red , ± 7 mm ; calyx 2-2 . 5 mm , lobes acuminate ; corolla with standard petal ± 7 mm ; wings and keel ± 5 mm . Fruit pods , 30-55 x ± l mm , not flattened , reflexing downwards , linear , appressed white-hairy . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 2) .
No Data
Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
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Indigofera maffeii Chiov.
Indigofera oreophila Santapau & Panthaki
Indigofera spachii var. trifoliolata Schweinf.
Indigofera subulata var. maffeii (Chiov.) J.B.Gillett
No data
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Asian Indigo
Three-Leaved 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.
