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This species is accepted, and its native range is Tanzania to Mozambique.

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International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; grassland., Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; anthropic habitats.
Habit
Annual, Not climbing, Herb

[FTEA]

Leguminosae, J. B. Gillett, R. M. Polhill & B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1971

Diagnostic
Much resembles I. demissa but seems more commonly annual; the leaflets are rather narrower and are often 4- and sometimes 5-jugate. Some fruiting pedicels and pods may be erect or spreading instead of all being reflexed and the pods are ± 5-seeded, up to 7 mm. long and only 1.1–1.3 mm. wide.
Figures
Fig. 36/2, p. 221.
Habitat
Roadsides, etc.; 0–500 m.; rainfall ± 900 mm.
Distribution
T8

Native to:

Mozambique, Tanzania

Indigofera concinna Baker appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
Kirk, J. [s.n.], Mozambique K000392945 Unknown type material
Meller, C.J. [s.n.], Mozambique K000392944

First published in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Trop. Afr. 2: 80 (1871)

Accepted by

  • Schrire, B.D. (2012). Flora Zambesiaca 3(4): 1-245. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Lock, J.M. (1989). Legumes of Africa a check-list: 1-619. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Schrire, B.D. (2012). Flora Zambesiaca 3(4): 1-245. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Gillett in Kew Bulletin, Add. Ser. 1: 18 (1958).
  • Bak. in Flora of Tropical Africa 2: 80 (1871).

International Legume Database and Information Service

  • Gillett, J. B. et al. (1971). Papilionoideae. In: Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Milne-Redhead & Polhill

Flora of Tropical East Africa
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