Indigofera sessiliflora DC.

Family: Fabaceae

General Appearance

Indigofera sessiliflora DC., it is an annual to biennal, small, richly branched herb, with stiff and canescent white branches, appressedly hairy with medifixed hairs. Leaves imparipinnately (1-) 3-7- foriolate, petiolate, leanets (3-) 4-10 x (2.5-) 3-4.5 mm. oblanceolate or elliptic, obtuse, pubescent on both sides. Stipules linear, small, pubescent. Flowers minute, sessile, in axillary clusters, the red corolla not or hardly exceeding the calyx. Calyx 3-4.5 mm long, with conspicuous, linear teeth, pubescent. Corolla pale rose, not more than equalling the calyx. Pods 6-12 mm long, linear-oblong, torulose, pubescent, 3-6-seeded.

Life Form

Th

Phytochoria

SS+SZ. The native range of this species is Sahara to NW. India.

Distribution in Libya

Jabal Al-Uwinat:  Gebel Uweinat 1968

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1980) Flora of Libya, Fabaceae Vol.  (86) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. Page. 41.

Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest:

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