Indigofera pilifera Peter G.Wilson & Rowe

Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, alternate, continuous with stem, 10-20 mm long, 6-15 mm wide, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 2-3.5 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 0.5-1 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 2.5-4 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 4-4.5 mm long, uniformly coloured, pink; claws absent; standard 4.5-6 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 4-5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 4.5-5.5 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments united in an open sheath with one free stamen. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 8-12 mm long, 2.5-3 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in March. Occurs in the Northern Botanical Province, in the Victoria Bonaparte IBRA regions.