Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Indigofera macrophylla Schum. & Thonn..

Indigofera macrophylla Schum. & Thonn.

HIGHER TAXON: Indigofereae

GENUS: Indigofera L.

Indigofera macrophylla Schum. & Thonn. [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Benin (N) [347]; Cameroon (N) [347]; Gabon (N) [16]; Gambia The (N) [8]; Ghana (N) [347]; Guinea (N) [347]; Guinea Bissau (N) [347]; Ivory Coast (N) [347]; Liberia (N) [347]; Nigeria (N) [347]; Senegal (N) [347]; Sierra Leone (N) [347]; Togo (N) [347]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guinea-Congolia/Sudania regional transition zone; bushland and thicket. [212];

LITERATURE POINTERS:

DESCRIPTORS:
	Climbing: Climbing, Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Shrub ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994-10 Schrire BD ; Section: Indigofera sect. Indigofera [2654] ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM

USES:
	Medicine [14]

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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

14.		Dalziel, J.M., 1937
		The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa

16.		Pellegrin, F., 1949
		Les Legumineuses du Gabon.Mem.Inst.d'Etudes Centrafr.1

212.		Hepper, F.N., 1958
		Papilionoideae.In:Flora West Tropical Africa.Keay,R.W.J.

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