Indigofera polysphaera Baker

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Photo: Nicholas Wightman
Walubita Village, Namaloba, Kaoma Distr., Western Province

Synonyms:	Indigofera dewevrei Micheli
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Description:	Erect annual herb up to 1.2 m tall arising from a sometimes woody taproot; stems angular, greenish-yellow to reddish-brown, ± densely appressed strigose with short ± equally biramous pale hairs, reddish pearl bodies restricted to leaf axils; stipules 4-7 x 0.5-1.5 mm; leaves simple, 9-80 x 1-9 mm, linear-lanceolate, acute, sparsely bristly hairy above, densely bristly hairy below, petiole 1-2 mm; inflorescence lax to densely subcapitate panicles at ends of main branches and axils of reduced leaves, panicles sometimes more openly branched and appearing raceme-like or compound and branching with two or more capitula, peduncle 3-25 mm; calyx 3-5 mm long, lobes linear-lanceolate, attenuate 4-10 times as long as 0.5-1 mm long tube; corolla 5-6 mm long, orange to orange-pink; back of standard spreading hispid, wings glabrous, keel densely reddish-brown hairy beneath; pods 3-5 x c.2 mm, densely white, yellowish or reddish-brown hairy, 2-seeded.
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Flowering time:	Feb - Apr
Worldwide distribution:	Widespread in tropical Africa
Growth form(s):	Annual.
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Spot characters:	Display spot characters for this species
Literature:	Schrire, B.D. (2012). Papilionoideae-Indigofereae Flora Zambesiaca 3(4) Page 167.

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