Indigofera astragalina

Indigofera astragalina DC., Prodre. 2: 228, 1825; Gillet in Kew Bull. 14: 290, 1960; Gillet in Kew Bull. Add. Ser. 1: 100, 1958; Malhotra and Rao, BOBSI 22: 5, 1961; Kamble and Pradhan, Fl. Akola 65, 1988; Almeida, Fl. Savatwadi, 136, 1990; Venkatareddi, BOBSI 11: 145, 1969; Cherian and Patasker, BOBSI 11: 386, 1969; Ugemuge, Fl. Nagpur Dist. 144, 1986.

FAMILY: FABACEAE
Morphological characters:
Habit:-Annual or biennial, erect, 2-4 fit. High, stem and branches covered with soft spreading reddish-brown hairs.
Leaves:-2-5 inch. long, petiole1-2 inch. long, stipule 1-, plumose, 1.5cm.long,filiform conspicuous.
Leaflets:- 5-11, opposite, membranous, 1-2 by 1 inch. long, elliptic- oblong, clothed on both side with appresed hairs, glaucous beneath, petiole of lateral leaflets short, hairy.
Inflorescence:- In dense many-flowered peduncled raceme 2-6 inch, long, longer or shorter than the leaves.
Flower:-Bracteate, bracteolate, complete, bisexuals, zygomorphic, pentamerous, hypogynous or perigynous, pentamerous, pedicels very short.
Calyx:- 1-1.5cm. long, hairy, teeth very long, subulate, plumose.
Corolla:- Pink, scarcely exserted. Pod 1.5cm. long, imbricately deflxed, straight, 4-gonous, pointed, densely clothed with soft spreading hairs.
Androecium:- Stamens (9)+1, Diadelphous
Gynoecium:- Monocapellary, superior, unilocular ovary with two alternating row of anatropous ovules on marginal placentation, style singal, incurved and stigma simple, terminal.
Pod:- 1-2 cm. long, imbricately deflexed, straight, 4-gonus, pointed, densely clothed with soft spreading hairs.
Seed:- 6-8, cubical.
Flowering:- Aug-Oct.