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Species Indigofera alopecuroides
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Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Indigofera:
Indigo is derived from the La. indicus, Gk. indikos, referring to India; La. ferax = bearing. Indigo is blue dye (cf I. tinctoria).
Etymology of alopecuroides:
From the Greek alopex = ‘fox’; and the Greek oides = ‘in the form of’; usually referring the resemblance of the inflorescence to a fox's tail
Scientific name:
Indigofera alopecuroides (Burm. f.) DC.
Etymology applies to:
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Synonym of:
Unknown
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Synonym status:
Erect or creeping shrublet to 90 cm. Leaves pinnately 5--7-foliolate, subsessile, crowded; leaflets elliptic-oblanceolate to suborbicular, densely hairy, midrib prominent below, concolorous. Flowers few to many in lax or sub-capitate racemes on long slender peduncles two or more times as long as the leaves, pink, back of standard petal densely hairy. Pods glabrous, spreading. July.--Feb. Mountain and lowland fynbos, 30--900 m, SW, AP, LB, SE (Stellenbosch to Humansdorp).
Observations of Taxon
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Indigofera alopecuroides var. minor
Name of observer:
Pauline Bohnen (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
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