Home | > | List of families | > | Fabaceae subfamily Papilionoideae | > | Indigofera | > | roseo-caerulea |
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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Soft-woody shrub up to 3 m high with brown or whitish strigose, mostly appressed hairs. Leaves imparipinnate, 6-15 cm long, with 12-21 leaflets; petiole17-30 mm long; stipules linear-lanceolate, 4-8 mm long, spreading or reflexed. Leaflets elliptic oblong, 9-30 mm long, often with a mucro at the apex, sparsely strigose with biramous hairs on both surfaces; terminal leaflet somewhat smaller and often obovate. Inflorescences in dense racemes, 20-50-flowered, 2-12 cm long on peduncles 2-6.5 cm long. Calyx 1.5-2.5 mm long, densely strigose with brown hairs; lobes lanceolate to broadly triangular, shorter than or equalling ; lower lobe longest. Corola 8-10 mm long with standard densely white velvety on the back. Pods 32-40 mm long, upturned at the apex more or less hairless or sparsely anf minutely strigose. |
Type location: |
Uganda, Mt. Elgon |
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Derivation of specific name: | roseo-caerulea: pinkish-blue |
Habitat: | Forest margins, secondary forest and in bush clumps in montane grassland. |
Altitude range: (metres) | 2000 - 2300 m |
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Worldwide distribution: | Eastern DRC, Rwanda, Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Northern Malawi and Zambia (Nyika only). |
National distribution: | N |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: | Friday 3 May 2019 |
Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 163. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 61. Schrire, B.D. (2012). Papilionoideae-Indigofereae Flora Zambesiaca 3(4) Page 107. |
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