Indigofera podophylla Harv.

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Vilankulo, Inhambane, Mozambique

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Status:	Native
Description:	Virgate suffrutex, ascending to erect up to 1.5 m high but usually shorter, Growing from a strong woody rootstock. Stems greenish, hairless or strigose, older stems becoming woody. Leaves often clustered on short lateral shoots; combined petiole and leaf axis needle-like, 1-8 cm long; terminal leaflet oblong-oblanceolate up to 12 mm long but falling early and often absent; lateral leaflets absent or vestigial; stipules scale-like, less than 1 mm long. Flowers in sgort axillary racemes of 1-4 cm long. Corolla c. 4.5 mm long pink to red. Pod cylindric, straighr, 12-28 mm long, reedish to brown with broad pale sutures.
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Habitat:	On sandy flats and in coastal dune forest, often on degraded soils.
Altitude range:	0 - 100 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Only known from Southern Mozambique and KwaZulu-Natal South Africa.
Mozambique distribution:	GI,M
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Endemic status:	Near Endemic
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Content last updated:	Thursday 13 November 2014
Literature:	Da Silva, M.C., Izidine, S. & Amude, A.B. (2004). A preliminary checklist of the vascular plants of Mozambique. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 30 Sabonet, Pretoria Page 69. Darbyshire, I., Timberlake, J., Osborne, J., Rokni, S., Matimele, H., Langa. C., Datizua, C., de Sousa, C., Alves, T., Massingue, A., Hadj-Hammou, J., Dhanda, S., Shah, T., Wursten, B. (2019). The endemic plants of Mozambique: diversity and conservation status Phytotaxa 136 Page 86. Schrire, B.D. (2012). Papilionoideae-Indigofereae Flora Zambesiaca 3(4) Page 208. Siebert, S. & Mössmer, M. (Editors) (2002). SABONET Southern Mozambique Expedition 2001; Provisional Plant Checklist of the Maputo Elephant Reserve (MER) and Licuati Forest Reserve (LFR) SABONET News 7(1) Page 26.

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Indigofera podophylla
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