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Indigofera hochstetteri Baker

Reference
Oliver et al., Fl.Trop.Afr. [Oliver et al.] 2:101 (1871)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Alien to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, alternate, continuous with stem, 18-35 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, pinnately arranged, terminal leaflet present, stalked; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 3-3.5 mm long, without glands, ribless. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Stamens ten; filaments united in an open sheath with one free stamen. Ovary sessile or subsessile. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 15-17 mm long, 3-5 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Occurs in the Eremaean Botanical Province, in the Pilbara IBRA regions.

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 17 April 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Pilbara.
IBRA Subregions
Roebourne.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Karratha, Port Hedland.