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Indigastrum costatum
macrum
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Nr upper dam, Hillside Dams, Bulawayo
Photo: Bart Wursten
Nr upper dam, Hillside Dams, Bulawayo
Photo: Bart Wursten
Nr upper dam, Hillside Dams, Bulawayo
Photo: Bart Wursten
Nr upper dam, Hillside Dams, Bulawayo
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| Synonyms: |
Indigofera costata Guill. & Perr. subsp. macra (E. Mey.) J.B. Gillett |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Annual or perennial shrubby herb, up to 1 m tall, with erect or spreading stems, sometimes woody at the base. Leaves 5-11-foliolateup to 60 mm long; leaflets elliptic-oblong, lanceolate or linear, up to 35mm long, almost hairless above, densely strigose beneath; stipules lanceolate-subulate, 1-5 mm long, erect, spreading or reflexed. Inflorescences long pedunculate racemes, up to 22cm long, more or less densely many-flowered. Flowers reddish-pink with wings twisted outwards away from the keel. Pods cylindric, 25-40 mm long, densely appresed strigose. |
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| Habitat: | In a variety of deciduous woodland and grassland habitats, sometimes along streams or in old cultivated fields. |
| Altitude range: | 30 - 1700 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. |
| Mozambique distribution: | MS,GI,M |
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| Content last updated: | Friday 18 August 2023 |
| Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 33. Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 21. Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 221. as Indigofera costata macra 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 48. As Indigofera costata subsp. macra Schrire, B.D. (2012). Papilionoideae-Indigofereae Flora Zambesiaca 3(4) Pages 6 - 8. (Includes a picture). Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 67. |
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