Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Indigofera capitata Kotschy.

Indigofera capitata Kotschy

HIGHER TAXON: Indigofereae

GENUS: Indigofera L.

Indigofera capitata Kotschy [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Angola (N) [347]; Benin (N) [2905]; Burkina (N) [2904]; Cameroon (N) [8]; Central African Rep. (N) [347]; Chad (N) [64]; Ethiopia (N) [2655]; Ghana (N) [8]; Guinea (N) [347]; Guinea Bissau (N) [347]; Ivory Coast (N) [2904]; Kenya (N) [2905]; Mali (N) [347]; Nigeria (N) [347]; Senegal (N) [347]; Sierra Leone (N) [347]; Sudan (N) [347]; Togo (N) [23]; Uganda (N) [347]; Zaire (N) [210]; Zambia (N) [347]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sudanian grasslands [210];
    Zambezian grassland [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [210]

DESCRIPTORS:
	Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Herb ; Lifespan: Annual ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994-10 Schrire BD ; Section: Indigofera sect. Paniculatae (Bak.)J.B.Gillett. [2654] ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM

NOTES:
  Much confused with I.paracapitata. [2906]


BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.		Lock, J.M., 1985
		Specimen in Herb.Kew

23.		Ern, H., 1984
		Leguminosae. In:Flore analytique du Togo.Brunel,J.F. et al.

64.		Lebrun, J.-P. et al, 1972
		IEMVPT Et.Bot.1,Catalogue des Plant.Vasc.du Tchad Meridional

210.		Gillett, J.B. et al., 1971
		Papilionoideae.In:Fl.Trop.E.Africa,Milne-Redhead & Polhill

347.		Gillett, J.B., 1958
		Kew Bull.Addnl.ser.1:1-166.Indigofera..in Tropical Africa.

2654.		Schrire, B.D., 1994
		Cladistic...tribe Indigofer.Adv.Leg.Syst.Phylogeny7,R.Bot.Gs

2655.		Schrire, B.D., 1994
		Specimenns seen in Herbarium, Kew

2904.		Schrire, B.D., 1996
		specimens seen by Schrire in BR and BRLU.

2905.		Schrire, B.D., 1996
		Specimens seen by Schrire in WAG.

2906.		Schrire, B., 1996
		Updates&corrections of Report on Tribe Indigoferae for ILDIS