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Indigofera vohemarensis

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Identification
Indigofera vohemarensis Baill. [family LEGUMINOSAE ]
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Entry for INDIGOFERA vohemarensis Baill. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1971) Author: J. B. GILLETT, R. M. POLHILL & B. VERDCOURT
Names
INDIGOFERA vohemarensis Baill. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris 1: 400 (1883); Gillett in K.B., Add. Ser. 1: 47 (1958). Types: Madagascar, Vohemar, Richard 92 & Nossi–Bé I., Pervillé & Boivin (all P, syn.) & Ambongo, Pervillé (P, syn., K, isosyn.!)
INDIGOFERA pentaphylla [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], [sensu Bak. in F.T.A. 2: 87 (1871), pro majore parte, non Murr. in L.]
INDIGOFERA suaveolens [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], [sensu Taub. in P.O.A. C: 210 (1895); Bak. f. in J.B. 41: 240 (1903) & L.T.A.: 125 (1926), pro majore parte; T.T.C.L.: 427 (1949); Cronquist in F.C.B. 5: 160 (1954), non Jaub. & Spach]
Anila pentaphylla Kuntze var. trichocarpa [family ], Rev. Gen. 3 (2): 52 (1898). Type: Mozambique, Kuntze (K, iso.!)
Indigofera uhehensis Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in E.J. 28: 402 (1900); T.T.C.L.: 427 (1949). Type: Tanganyika, Iringa District, Mbijiri [Mbigiri], Goetze 508 (B, holo. †, K, iso. !)
Indigofera minimifolia Chiov. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Racc. Bot. Miss. Consol. Kenya: 29 (1935). Types: Kenya, Nyeri, Balbo 598 (TOM, !) & near Meru, Imenti, Balbo 866 (TOM, syn.)
Indigofera suaveolens Chiov. var. pseudocongolensis [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in Cuf., Miss. Biol. Boran.: 75–77, t. 14 (1939). Type: southern Ethiopia, Javello, Cufodontis 548 (FI, holo. !)
Information
Erect branching annual or perennial plant with a taproot, up to 140 cm. tall, usually smelling of coumarin; branches appressed pilose or strigose. Stipules subulate, appressed pilose, 1.5–3 mm. long; rhachis up to 2 cm. long, including a petiole of 1–6 mm., prolonged 1–3 mm. beyond the lateral leaflets; leaflets 5 or 7, sometimes 3 or 9, elliptic to cuneate-oblong, rounded at the apex, apiculate, up to 11 mm. long and 5 mm. wide but often, especially under dry conditions, much smaller, yellowish and appressed pilose or strigulose above, greenish and strigose beneath. Racemes 4–7-flowered, the peduncles pilose or glabrescent, up to 2 cm. long; bracts caducous, pubescent, ± 1 mm. long; pedicel pubescent, ± 1 mm. long. Calyx strigose, 1.5 mm. long, divided to the middle; lobes triangular. Corolla pubescent outside. Stamens 4–5 mm. long. Pod subtetragonal, 18–25 mm. long, ± 2 mm. wide and 1.7 mm. thick, appressed strigulose, the hairs ± 0.4 mm. long, 8–14-seeded; endocarp spotted. Seeds orange-yellow, cuboid, 1 by 1 mm. Fig. 39/2, p. 239.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; K1–7; T1–8; Z; P eastern Congo
Altitude range
0–1800 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier, Moyale, 3 July 1952, Gillett 13473!KENYA Masai District Ngong Hills, V. G. van Someren 9183 !KENYA Mombasa, Frere Town, 30 May 1934, Napier 3310!TANGANYIKA Mwanza–Musoma, 29 June 1927, Conrads 160 !TANGANYIKA Mpwapwa, 1 May 1929, Mrs. Hornby 122!TANGANYIKA Mikindani District/Mozambique frontier Ruvuma [Rovuma] R., 12 Mar. 1861, Kirk !UGANDA Acholi District Madi, 3°30′ N. 32° E., Dec. 1862, Grant !UGANDA Teso District Serere, June 1932, Chandler 785!UGANDA Mengo District Kawanda, Jan. 1936, Hazel 361!ZANZIBAR Zanzibar I., Haitajwa, July 1930, Vaughan 1416 ! & Tunguu road, 11 Mar. 1931, Vaughan 1886 !ZANZIBAR Pemba, Fundo I., Nov. 1929, Vaughan 921!
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Mozambique
Madagascar
Notes
The true I. suaveolens Jaub. & Spach (Ill. Pl. Or., t. 489 (1856)) seems to be confined to northern Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan and the mountains of the Sahara. It is more argenteous and has shorter peduncles and longer calyx-lobes than I. vohemarensis.

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