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This species is accepted, and its native range is Tanzania to S. Tropical Africa.

[FTEA]

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

Habit
Erect annual or short-lived perennial herb, usually with rather purplish stems, up to 2 m. tall, everywhere covered with short appressed biramous hairs which are almost all brown or blackish on the pod, corolla and calyx, mixed brown and white on the inflorescence and mainly white elsewhere; multicellular hairs usually present on the pods, sometimes elsewhere.
Leaves
Stipules subulate, 1–4 mm. long; leaf-rhachis up to 4 cm. long including a petiole of 2–15 mm., prolonged 2–8 mm. beyond the lateral leaflets; leaflets 5–11, narrowly elliptic-oblong, up to 25mm. long and 10 mm. broad.
Inflorescences
Racemes many-flowered, ± secund, usually dense, up to 10 cm. long including a peduncle of up to 3 cm.; pedicels up to 1.5 mm. long.
Calyx
Calyx dark brown, with triangular-subulate teeth up to half as long as the 2.5–3.5 mm. long filaments.
Fruits
Pod spreading or somewhat ascending, cylindrical, 3–7 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, the multicellular hairs, when present, pale, 1- or more often 2-seeded; endocarp hardly spotted.
Seeds
Seeds yellowish, smooth.

[ILDIS]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian woodland
Habit
Annual, Not climbing, Herb

Native to:

Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia

Indigofera nyassica Gilli appears in other Kew resources:

First published in Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 74: 433 (1970 publ. 1971)

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 24: 497 (1970).
  • Gilli in Ann. Nat. Hist. Mus. Wien 74: 13 (1970).

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
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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International Legume Database and Information Service
International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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