Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Indigofera parviflora Heyne; Wight & Arn. Prodr Fl. Ind. 201. 1834.
Indigofera deflexa Hochst.; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 178. 1847. Indigastrum deflexum Jaub. & Spach, Illnst. PI. Orient, pi. 492. 1857.
An annual; stem 3-10 dm. high, branched, strigose; stipules subulate, 2 mm. long; leaves ascending, 3-4 cm. long; leaflets 7-9, linear or narrowly oblanceolate, opposite, 1-2 cm. long, strigose, acute at both ends; racemes very short and dense, rather few-flowered; calyx 3 mm. long, its teeth subulate, slightly longer than the tube; corolla lilac, 6 mm. long; pod 2.5-4 cm. long, 2 mm thick, strigose, slightly upcurved at the a"bruptly acute apex, 15-20-seeded; seeds 1.5 mm. long.
Typb locality: Mysore. India.
Distribution: On ballast, Mobile, Alabama; native of the East Indies, northern Australia, Arabia, and Africa.
- bibliographic citation
- Per Axel Rydberg. 1919. (ROSALES); FABACEAE; PSORALEAE. North American flora. vol 24(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
