Indigofera glandulosa J.C.Wendl.

Scientific Description

Erect, herb. Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, alternate, not continuous with stem, 25-36 mm long, hairy, with gland-tipped hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, pinnately arranged; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves. Pedicel present, 1-1.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 1.5-3 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla uniformly coloured, pink; claws absent; standard 3-4 mm long, hairy at least in part, not auriculate, wings 2.5-4 mm long, not auriculate, keel 3-4 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, hairy at least in part. Stamens ten, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments united in an open sheath with one free stamen. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 6.6-7 mm long, 3-3.6 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in March and May. Occurs in the Northern Botanical Province, in the Northern Kimberley and Victoria Bonaparte IBRA regions.