Indigofera candicans

PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / FABALES / FABACEAE / PAPILIONOIDEAE / INDIGOFEREAE / INDIGOFERA / CANDICANS

Indigofera candicans Aiton

LC Indigenous Endemic

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Morphological description

Suffruticose, procumbent, thinly cano-sericeous; branches compressed-angular; leaves petiolate, trifoliolate; leaflets lanceolate, acute, prominently ribbed beneath, silky-subsilvery on each side; stipules small, subulate, recurved; racemes subspicate, on long peduncles; bracts shorter than the calyx; calyx semi-fid, the segments lanceolate; petals puberulous; legumes pendulous, compresso-terete, silky-canescent. From: Harvey, WH. 1862. Leguminosae. In: WH Harvey & OW Sonder (eds), Leguminosae to Loranthaceae. Fl. Cap. (Harvey) 2: 1-285. Lovell Reeve & Co. Ltd., London. [https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.821] [All rights reserved]

Prostrate or decumbent suffrutex, up to 0.4 m high; stems angular, appressed canescent-strigillose. Stipules 1-3 mm long, subulate-falcate. Leaves: rachis sometimes extended to 1 mm beyond lateral leaflets; petioles (3)4-20 mm long. Terminal leaflet (3)4-28 x 1-5 mm, oblong, oblanceolate or elliptic, ± complicate, strigose above, more densely strigose below, apex ± rounded, mucronate. Inflorescences of 20-90 mm long, 10-20(25)-flowered racemes; peduncle 10-40(45) mm long; pedicels 0.5-1.0 mm long. Flowers 8.0-10.5 mm long, orange-red; calyx 2-3 mm long, appressed canescent-strigillose; lobes triangular, ± equalling tube; standard moderately densely crisped pubescent dorsally; keel apex rostrate. Stamens (5.5)6.0-7.0 mm long. Flowering time May-Nov. Pod 14-24 x 2.0-2.5 mm. From: Boatwright, JS; et al. 2019. Fabaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(2): 926-1066. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]

Diagnostic description

Stems decumbent, the ends ascending, 1-2 feet long. Petioles 0.5-1 inch long. Leaflets 0.75-1 inch long. Peduncles 4-5 inches long. Stipules much shorter than the petiole, and mostly hooked backwards. Flowers pinky-purple. Legumes 1-1.25 inch long. This is scarcely more than a dwarf, and therefore procumbent, variety of I. psoraleoides, from drier ground. The pubescence is more minute and glossy, the leaves and stipules smaller, and the calyx-segments rather broader From: Harvey, WH. 1862. Leguminosae. In: WH Harvey & OW Sonder (eds), Leguminosae to Loranthaceae. Fl. Cap. (Harvey) 2: 1-285. Lovell Reeve & Co. Ltd., London. [https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.821] [All rights reserved]

Habitat

Dry hills. From: Harvey, WH. 1862. Leguminosae. In: WH Harvey & OW Sonder (eds), Leguminosae to Loranthaceae. Fl. Cap. (Harvey) 2: 1-285. Lovell Reeve & Co. Ltd., London. [https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.821] [All rights reserved]

Coastal dune grassland and renosterveld; Sub-Escarpment Grassland, Albany Thicket. From: Boatwright, JS; et al. 2019. Fabaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(2): 926-1066. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]

Distribution

Capetown and Camps Bay. From: Harvey, WH. 1862. Leguminosae. In: WH Harvey & OW Sonder (eds), Leguminosae to Loranthaceae. Fl. Cap. (Harvey) 2: 1-285. Lovell Reeve & Co. Ltd., London. [https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.821] [All rights reserved]

Kei River Mouth to East London. From: Boatwright, JS; et al. 2019. Fabaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(2): 926-1066. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]

Altitude

5 to 30 m

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Residence status

Occurrence in the Flora of Southern Africa (FSA) countries and South African provinces. Residence status indicates if a taxon is indigenous, endemic, naturalised or invasive in a specific region. This data is based on specimen records and literature

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Accepted name

Indigofera candicans Aiton

Synonym(s)

Classification

KINGDOM Plantae

SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae

PHYLUM Anthophyta

ORDER Fabales

FAMILY Fabaceae

SUBFAMILY Papilionoideae

TRIBE Indigofereae

GENUS Indigofera

SPECIES candicans

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Specimen records

Barcode: PRE0428244-0 Collector(s) & number: Acocks, JPH, 9138 | 1942-10-4

South Africa, Eastern Cape, EAST LONDON DIST.; GONUBIE MOUTH; OLD SHINGHY BEACH

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Barcode: NBG0253112-0 Collector(s) & number: Unknown, s.n. | --

South Africa, Western Cape, Knysna. Near Brenton.

General notes: On sandy hills.

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Barcode: PRE0445645-0 Collector(s) & number: Flanagan, HG, 883 | 1891-8-

South Africa, Eastern Cape, KEI MOUTH

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Barcode: PRE0855255-0 Collector(s) & number: Baard, JA, 879 | 2007-8-

South Africa, Western Cape, Suid-Kaap. Buffalo Bay.

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Barcode: PRE0782650-0 Collector(s) & number: Laughton, FS, SAAS 1286 | 1931-9-7

South Africa, Western Cape, Knysna Dist. Steenbok Eiland, near The Heads

General notes: Scattered in low open growth of Juncus maritimus, Stenotaphrum glabrum and other species. A vigorous sprawling plant forming low hummocks up to 2'6" in diameter. Det.H.C.Fourcade ex SAAS

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Barcode: PRE0458755-0 Collector(s) & number: Trelawney, PRE 56579 | --

South Africa, Western Cape, CAPE PENINSULA

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Barcode: PRE0664304-0 Collector(s) & number: Stirton, CH, 8221 | 1980-11-20

South Africa, Western Cape, RIVIERSONDEREND; 10 KM FROM RIVIERSONDEREND TO CALEDON GENTLE SLOPE

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Barcode: NBG0265149-0 Collector(s) & number: Thode, J, STEU 8177 | 1888-8-

South Africa, Eastern Cape, East London, grassy sandy places.

General notes: Alt. 50-100 ft. Grassy, sandy places. Procumbent, 1 ft or more long. Flowers purple.

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Barcode: PRE0755683-0 Collector(s) & number: Hoare, DB, 16 | 1994-5-

South Africa, Western Cape, Goukamma Nature Reserve.

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Barcode: NBG0061879-0 Collector(s) & number: Bokelmann, HL, s.n. | 1961-7-

South Africa, Eastern Cape, East London Dist. Nahoon.

General notes: Alt. 20 ft. Flowers salmon, slopes between rocks, bushy. 1 ft high.

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Barcode: NBG0245332-0 Collector(s) & number: Burgers, 1146 | 1978-9-8

South Africa, Western Cape, De Hoop - Potberg Nature Reserve. Potberg farm, 5 km from coast along track to coast.

General notes: Alt. 170 m. Limestone bedrock. Long trailing herbaceous stems, few branched, do not resprout after fires. Flowers red. Occasional.

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