Fabaceae FAMILY

Indigofera oblongifolia

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Indigofera oblongifolia is an erect perennial plant with many branched stems that become more or less woody, especially near the base, and persist[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine and a dye. It is occasionally cultivated, as a living fence in Sudan; for green manure in southern India; and as dye plant perhaps in Mali and Zimbabwe[ 317 Title Mansfeld's Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Plants Publication Author Website http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:4292127278597336 Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Terse details of a huge range of useful plants. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeAfrica - Mauritania to Egypt and Somalia, also in Angola; Arabian Peninsula, through Iran to Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka

HabitatFound especially near the coast, growing on edges of brackish places, streamsides, grassland, bushland, stony ground; sandy thickets, areas disturbed by human activity; at elevations up to 1,200 metres[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. , 1496 Title A Revision of the Genus Indigofera (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in Southeast Asia Publication Blumea 30 (1984) 89-151 Author Kort I. de, Thijsse G. Publisher Year 1984 ISBN Description ].