Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
Indigofera linnaei Ali
Family
Ali, S.I. (1958) Botaniska Notiser : 549.
Common name
Birdsville Indigo; Nine-leaved Indigo; Indigo, Birdsville; Indigo, Nine-leaved
Stem
Leaves
Flowers
Racemes 0.5-2.5 cm long; bracts triangular, 2 x 1 mm. Pedicels 0.5 mm long. Flowers red to orange red, 3-4 mm long; calyx cup-shaped, 1.5 mm long and wide, teeth narrowly triangular, 2.5 mm long; standard broadly ovate to orbicular, 3-4.5 x 2.5-4 mm and hairy on the back; wings 3-4 x 1-1.5 mm, glabrous, margins shortly ciliate; keel petals 3-4 x 1.5 mm, glabrous, shortly ciliate; staminal tube 2.5-4 mm long; ovary strigose; ovules 2-3.
Fruit
Seedlings
Features not available.
Distribution and Ecology
Natural History & Notes
The cause for 'Birdsville Disease' with horses in Australia (De Kort & Thijsse 1984).
Synonyms
Anila prostrata (L.) Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 938(1891). Indigofera dominii H.Eichler, Supplement to Black's Flora of South Australia Edn. 2 : 190(1965). Indigofera enneaphylla L., Mantissa Plantarum 2: 272(1771), Type: Habitat in India orientali. Indigofera prostrata (L.) Domin, Bibliotheca Botanica 89: 741(1928). Hedysarum prostratum L., Mantissa Plantarum 1: 102(1767).
RFK Code
4057
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