Indigofera rhytidocarpa Benth. ex Harv.
var. rhytidocarpa

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Indigofera rhytidocarpa var. rhytidocarpa

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Status:	Native
Description:	Prostrate, ascending to erect, annual or perennial herb, up to 40 cm tall, growing from a taproot. Stems much-branched, yellowish-green, angular, ribbed, sparsely or densely whitish strigose hairy. Leaves 1-3-foliolate; terminal leaflet linear-lanceolate, 1-6 cm long, appressed strigose hairy on both surfaces; lateral leaflets, if present usually smaller; petiole 3-16 mm long; rhachis prolonged beyond lateral leaflets 1-8 mm. Stipules linear-lanceolate, 3-7 mm long, more or less erect. Raceme 2-5 cm long, including peduncle. Corolla 4-4.5 mm long, orange-carmine to red, whitish strigose on the back of the standard. Pods reflexed, curved, flat with conspicuous raised veining, 7-22 mm long, densely spreading strigose; style base forming an erect beak.
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Habitat:	Open sandy areas in woodland, grassland, bushveld and thorn scrub, along roadsides or in seasonally inundated areas.
Altitude range: (metres)	600 - 140 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Limpopo, North-West, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, Free State, Northern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal South Africa.
Zimbabwe distribution:	W,E,S
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Images last updated:	Thursday 28 July 2016
Literature:	Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 34. Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 22. Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 222. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 49. Schrire, B.D. (2012). Papilionoideae-Indigofereae Flora Zambesiaca 3(4) Pages 32 - 33. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 68.

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Indigofera rhytidocarpa
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Indigofera rhytidocarpa
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