Family:
Fabaceae Lindl.
Genus:
Indigofera L.

Indigofera hirsuta L.

This species is accepted, and its native range is Tropics & Subtropics. It is used to treat unspecified medicinal disorders, as animal food, a poison and a medicine, has environmental uses and for food.

[UPB]

The Useful Plants of Boyacá project

Conservation
Not Evaluated.
Ecology
Alt. 150 - 1000 m.
Morphology General Habit
Herb or shrub.
Distribution
Naturalised in Colombia.

[ILDIS]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Sudanian anthropic landscapes, Lake Victoria regional mosaic; anthropic landscapes., Guinea-Congolia/Sudania regional transition zone; anthropic landscapes., Zambezian anthropic landscapes., Somalia-Masai anthropic landscapes
Morphology General Habit
Annual/Perennial, Not climbing, Herb/Shrub
Vernacular
Angitratainakoho, Chota Sirphonka, Famafasambo, Hairy Indigo, Patry, Sarivoanjo, Sarivongo, Takotsifotra, Tsiasotry

[UPFC]
Distribution
Biogeografic region: Andean, Orinoquia. Elevation range: 150–1000 m a.s.l. Naturalised in Colombia. Colombian departments: Arauca, Boyacá, Caldas, Meta, Tolima, Valle del Cauca.
Habit
Herb, Shrub.
Ecology
Habitat according IUCN Habitats Classification: forest and woodland, savanna, shrubland, native grassland, wetlands (inland), artificial - terrestrial.

[CPLC]

Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Distribution
Naturalizada en Colombia; Alt. 150 - 1000 m.; Andes, Orinoquia, Valle del Cauca, Valle del Magdalena.
Morphology General Habit
Hierba, arbusto
Conservation
No Evaluada

[UNAL]

Bernal, R., G. Galeano, A. Rodríguez, H. Sarmiento y M. Gutiérrez. 2017. Nombres Comunes de las Plantas de Colombia. http://www.biovirtual.unal.edu.co/nombrescomunes/

Vernacular
añil, púnciga

[FTEA]

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

Morphology General Habit
Erect or spreading annual up to 1.5 m. tall; stems cylindrical or slightly ridged, stiffly brownish or, occasionally, white pilose.
Morphology Leaves
Stipules linear-setaceous, up to 1 cm. long; rhachis pilose, up to 9 cm. long, including a petiole of up to 2 cm., prolonged up to 13 mm. beyond the lateral leaflets; stipellae not visible; petiolules 2 mm. long; leaflets 5–7 or rarely 9, elliptic-oblong, up to 40 mm. long and 25 mm. wide, the terminal rather longer than the lateral, pilose on both surfaces.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes dense, many-flowered, hirsute, in all 20 or 30 cm. long, including a peduncle which is more than 25 mm. long but usually shorter than the floriferous part; bracts linear-lanceolate, up to 5 mm. long, caducous; pedicels ± 1 mm. long, reflexed in fruit.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx stiffly brown hirsute, ± 4 mm. long, divided almost to the base into linear-setaceous lobes.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Corolla white pubescent outside, brick-red or rose, the standard the same colour as the wings.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
Stamens ± 4 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod straight, rather tetragonal, with well-developed sutures, 12–20 mm. long, ± 2 mm. wide and thick, hirsute, many of the hairs, especially the dorsal ones, usually brown; endocarp strongly spotted.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds 6–9, cuboid, angular, strongly pitted.
Figures
Fig. 45/1–14.
Habitat
Weed of cultivated and waste areas; 0–1350 m.; rainfall 900–1700 mm. or rarely less
Distribution
K7 P T1 T3 T4 T6 T8 U1 U2 U3 U4 Z Senegal to Sudan, Congo, Mozambique, Zambia, Angola, Madagascar, also southern Asia and N. Australiaintroduced into tropical America

[UPB]
Use Medicines Unspecified Medicinal Disorders
Medicinal (State of the World's Plants 2016).

[ILDIS]
Use
Chemical products, Environmental, Forage, Medicine, Toxins

[UPFC]
Use Animal Food
Used as animal food.
Use Environmental
Environmental uses.
Use Food
Used for food.
Use Materials
Used as material.
Use Medicines
Medical uses.
Use Poisons
Poisons.

Native to:

Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Comoros, Congo, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Free State, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Peru, Philippines, Queensland, Réunion, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Venezuela, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Alabama, Chagos Archipelago, Colombia, Costa Rica, Florida, Georgia, Honduras, Leeward Is., Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nansei-shoto, Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Northern Territory, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Windward Is.

Indigofera hirsuta L. appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Mar 26, 2005 Fraser [128], Australia K000217322 Yes
Jan 1, 2003 Hatschbach, G.G. [68558], Brazil K000921161 Yes
Aug 1, 2001 Quesada, A. [660], Costa Rica K000724004 No
Oct 1, 1999 Hatschbach, G.G. [24552], Brazil K000921160 Yes
Aug 1, 1996 Hammel, B. [18772], Costa Rica K000724005 No
Nov 1, 1995 Hatschbach, G.G. [62393], Brazil K000921164 Yes
Jan 1, 1995 Panero, J.L. [6190], Mexico K000724002 No
Jul 1, 1994 Esteves, G.L. [1997], Alagoas K000188206 Yes
Oct 21, 1990 Hatschbach, G.G. [24552], Brazil K000921159 Yes
Oct 21, 1990 Hatschbach, G.G. [46003], Brazil K000921158 Yes
Jan 1, 1987 Rabelo, B.V. [3260], Brazil K000921156 Yes
Jan 1, 1984 Soto N., J.C. [6851], Mexico K000724001 No
Dec 21, 1982 Archer, W.A. [7791], Brazil K000921155 Yes
Dec 21, 1982 Rudd [s.n.], Brazil K000921163 Yes
Nov 1, 1974 Harley, R.M. [16232], Bahia K000188207 Yes
Pedra Cavalo, G. [278], Bahia K000188204 Yes
Armstrong [s.n.], Australia K000217319 Yes
Brown, R. [s.n.], Australia K000217324 Yes
Mueller, F. von [s.n.], Australia K000217325 Yes
Mueller, F. von [s.n.], Australia K000217328 Yes
Mitchell, T.L. [s.n.], Australia K000217329 Yes
Bidwill [34], Australia K000217332 Yes
leg. ign. [s.n.], Australia K000217346 Yes
leg. ign. [s.n.], Australia K000217337 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5450], India K001120965 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5450] K001120975 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5450], India K001120971 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5450] K001120968 Yes
Hooker, J.D. [s.n.], Australia K000217320 Yes
leg. ign. [s.n.], Australia K000217336 Yes
Leitão Filho, H.F. [2101], Brazil K000921154 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 5450], Myanmar K001120974 Yes
Archer, W.A. [7791], Brazil K000921162 Yes
Mueller, F. von [s.n.], Australia K000217326 Yes
Mueller, F. von [s.n.], Australia K000217327 Yes
Queiroz, L.P. [2190], Bahia K000188205 Yes
Tellez, O [205], Mexico K000724003 No
Lewis, G.P. [s.n.], Brazil K000921157 Yes
Brown, R. [s.n.], Australia K000217323 Yes
Mitchell, T.L. [s.n.], Australia K000217330 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5450] K001120969 Yes
Telfair, C. [Cat. no. 5450], Mauritius K001120972 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5450] K001120964 Yes
Cunningham, A. [s.n.], Australia K000217335 Yes
Cunningham, A. [s.n.], Australia K000217334 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5450] K001120966 Yes
Brown, R. [s.n.], Australia K000217333 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5450], India K001120967 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5450], India K001120970 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5450] K001120973 Yes
Mitchell [s.n.], Australia K000217331 Yes

First published in Sp. Pl.: 751 (1753)

Accepted by

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  • Catarino, L., Sampaio Martins, E., Pinto-Basto, M.F. & Diniz, M.A. (2006). Plantas Vasculares e Briófitos da Guiné-Bissau: 1-298. Instituto de investigação científica tropical, Instituto Português de apoio ao desenvolvimento.
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  • Kumar, S. & Sane, P.V. (2003). Legumes of South Asia. A Checklist: 1-536. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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  • Polhill, R.M. (1990). Flore des Mascareignes 80: 1-235. IRD Éditions, MSIRI, RBG-Kew, Paris.
  • Schrire, B.D. (2012). Flora Zambesiaca 3(4): 1-245. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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Kew Backbone Distributions

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  • Brunel, J.F., Hiepo, P. & Scholz, H. (eds.) (1984). Flore Analytique du Togo Phanérogames: 1-751. GTZ, Eschborn.
  • Catarino, L., Sampaio Martins, E., Pinto-Basto, M.F. & Diniz, M.A. (2006). Plantas Vasculares e Briófitos da Guiné-Bissau: 1-298. Instituto de investigação científica tropical, Instituto Português de apoio ao desenvolvimento.
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  • Du Puy, D.J., Labat, N.-N., Rabevohitra, R., Villiers, J.-F., Bosser, J. & Moat, J. (2002). The Leguminosae of Madagascar: 1-737. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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  • Forzza, R.C., Zappi, D. & Souza, V.C. (2016-continuously updated). Flora do Brasil 2020 em construção http://reflora.jbrj.gov.br/reflora/listaBrasil/ConsultaPublicaUC/ResultadoDaConsultaNovaConsulta.do.
  • Garcia-Mendoza, A.J. & Meave, J.A. (eds.) (2012). Diversidad florística de Oaxaca: de musgos a angiospermas (colecciones y listas de especies), ed. 2: 1-351. Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
  • George, A.S., Orchard, A.E. & Hewson, H.J. (eds.) (1993). Oceanic islands 2 Flora of Australia 50: 1-606. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
  • Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa an annotated checklist Strelitzia 14: 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • Girmansyah, D. & al. (eds.) (2013). Flora of Bali an annotated checklist: 1-158. Herbarium Bogorensis, Indonesia.
  • Hammel, B.E., Grayum, M.H., Herrera & C. & Zamora, N. (eds.) (2010). Manual de plantas de Costa Rica volumen V. Dicotiledóneas (Clusiaceae-Gunneraceae) Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 119: 1-970. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
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  • Kumar, S. & Sane, P.V. (2003). Legumes of South Asia. A Checklist: 1-536. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Lebrun, J.-P., Audru, J., Gaston, A. & Mosnier, M. (1972). Catalogue des Plantes Vasculaires du Tchad Méridional: 1-289. Institut d' Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, Maisons Alfort.
  • Lebrun, J.p., Toutain, B., Gaston, A. & Boudet, G. (1991). Catalogue des Plantes Vasculaires du Burkina Faso: 1-341. Institut d' Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, Maisons Alfort.
  • Lejoy, J., Ndjele, M.-B. & Geerinck, D. (2010). Catalogue-flore des plantes vasculaires des districts de Kisangani et de la Tshopo (RD Congo) Taxonomania 30: 1-307.
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  • Lock, J.M. (1989). Legumes of Africa a check-list: 1-619. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
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  • Polhill, R.M. (1990). Flore des Mascareignes 80: 1-235. IRD Éditions, MSIRI, RBG-Kew, Paris.
  • Schrire, B.D. (2012). Flora Zambesiaca 3(4): 1-245. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

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