Indigofera
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Fabaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Herbs, or rarely shrubs, often canescent with hairs affixed by the middle, with odd-pinnate leaves, small stipules, and pink or purple, spicate or racemose flowers. Calyx-teeth oblique, nearly equal, or the lower longer; standard ovate or orbicular, sessile or clawed; wings oblong; keel # erect, somewhat gibbous, or spurred; stamens mainly monadelphous; ovary 1-co-ovuled; style slender; pod linear, 4-angled or subterete, septate between the seeds. [Name from the yield of indigo by some species.] About 275 species, natives of warm and temperate regions. Type species: Indigofera tinctoria L.