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

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International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian woodland
Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Shrub

[FTEA]

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

Habit
Softly woody shrub up to 1.3 m. tall; branches cylindrical, brown, almost glabrous.
Leaves
Stipules subulate, ± 2 mm. long; stipellae subulate, 1.5 mm. long; rhachis almost glabrous, up to 7 cm. long, including a petiole of 12–17 mm., prolonged 7–12 mm. beyond the lateral leaflets; petiolules up to 2.5 mm. long; leaflets 5–9, obovate or almost orbicular, broadly cuneate at the base, emarginate and apiculate at the apex, up to 18 mm. long and 14 mm. wide, glabrous above, finely strigulose beneath.
Inflorescences
Raceme almost glabrous, many-flowered, up to 14 cm. long, including a peduncle of 1.5–3 cm.; bracts narrowly triangular, up to 1.5 mm. long, caducous; pedicels strigulose, up to 3 mm. long in flower, spreading or subreflexed and up to 4 mm. long in fruit.
Calyx
Calyx strigulose, ± 2 mm. long; lobes broadly triangular, shorter than the tube.
Corolla
Corolla strigulose outside.
Stamens
Stamens 13–15 mm. long.
Fruits
Pod almost 6 cm. long, ± 4 mm. wide and 2 mm. thick.
Seeds
Seeds 10–11, well separated.
Habitat
Stony hill clothed with Brachystegia microphylla; ± 1200 m.; rainfall ± 1000 mm.
Distribution
T1

Native to:

Tanzania

Indigofera paucistrigosa J.B.Gillett appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
Jan 11, 1955 Burtt, B.D. [6485], Tanzania K000392847 holotype

First published in Kew Bull., Addit. Ser. 1: 87 (1958)

Accepted by

  • Lock, J.M. (1989). Legumes of Africa a check-list: 1-619. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Lock, J.M. (1989). Legumes of Africa a check-list: 1-619. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Gillett in Kew Bulletin, Add. Ser. 1: 87 (1958).

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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