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Indigofera spiniflora Boiss.

HIGHER TAXON: Indigofereae

GENUS: Indigofera L.

Indigofera spiniflora Boiss. [Preferred name]
Indigofera sp.D Thulin {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Djibouti (N) [1765]; Ethiopia (N) [24, 347]; Kenya (N) [24, 2457]; Somalia (N) [24, 347]; Sudan (N) [347]
Middle East: Oman (N) [1939]; Saudi Arabia (N) [347]; South Yemen (N) [347]; Yemen (N) [1939]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket [24];
    Somalia-Masai grasslands [24];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [24]

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

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

24.		Thulin, M., 1983
		Opera Botanica 68:1-223.Leguminosae of Ethiopia

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

1765.		Audru, J. et al., 1987
		Maisons-Alfort:IEMVPT.La vegetation...Republique de Djibouti

1939.		Lock, J.M. & Simpson, K., 1991
		Legumes of West Asia: A Checklist. RBG, Kew.

2457.		Thulin, M.(ed.), 1993
		Flora of Somalia,Vol.1

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