Indigofera superba flowers

The pale pink flowers of Indigofera superba grow in dense racemes from leaf axils near stem tips. Much white hairiness covers the spiky thin sepal lobes, the red-brown stalk of the inflorescence and the outer surfaces of the corolla, especially the keel petal.

The standard petal is prominent, narrowly ovate and tapering to a pointed tip. The pair of wing petals also taper towards their tips, but are obliquely shaped with straighter inner margins.

Flowering normally happens in summer to mid-autumn. These flowers were seen at the end of October in Fernkloof (Bean and Johns, 2005; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984).