Indigofera flabellata stems and flowers

    Indigofera flabellata stems and flowers
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Thabo Maphisa

    The stalked flowers of Indigofera flabellata grow in racemes. The calyx has five acutely pointed lobes.

    The corollas are pink or purple, the top of the standard petal flexed back. It is hairy on its outside, sometimes whitish on the inside near the base. The wings spread or are together over the keel that is shorter and often inconspicuous. A flower becomes about 7 mm long.

    Flowering happens from midsummer through winter to early spring. The photo was taken in January in the Langkloof.

    The fruit is a straight, bulging to almost cylindrical pod, grey-haired with pointed tip. The fruits may spread in dense clusters on the stems (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Manning, 2007; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist).

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