[Home | Genus | Latin names]

Indigofera decora Lindl.

Email comments
HIGHER TAXON: Indigofereae

GENUS: Indigofera L.

Indigofera decora Lindl. [Preferred name]
    Indigofera incarnata (Willd.)Nakai {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
South Africa (I) [2655]
  Asia
China (N) [1930, 3417]; Anhui [3417]; Fujian [3417]; Guangdong [3417]; Guangxi [3417]; Guizhou [3417]; Hubei [3417]; Hunan [3417]; Jiangxi [3417]; Zhejiang [3417]; Hong Kong (N) [1930, 2075]; Japan (N) [1930]; Korea (N) [1930]; Sri Lanka (I) [1957, 3859]

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1930, 1961, 2075, 3417] ; Illustration [2826, 3417]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS ; Habit: Shrub ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994-10 Schrire BD ; Section: Indigofera sect.Psiloceratiae (J.B.Gillett)Schrire [2298] ; Source(s): 1990 (New Zealand & Pacific) Horn P, 1992 (Phytochem.) Southon I & Bowes I, 1993 Polhill RM, 1996 (Japan) Ohashi H, 2004-01 (Fl.Sinicae) Novoselova MS extract, 2004-11 (S Asia) Kumar S & Sane P

  
USES:
  Environmental [1957, 2828]

  
NOTES:
  Japanese distribution : Honshu; Shikoku; Kyushu [2826]
  Commonly cultivated, almost naturalised in some areas, in New Zealand. [1960]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1930.

  Ohwi, J., 1965
    Flora of Japan. Washington: Smithsonian Institution

1957.

  Rudd, V.E., 1991
    A Revised Handbook of the Flora of Ceylon 7: 108-381.

1960.

  Allan, H.H., 1961
    Flora of New Zealand, Vol 1.

1961.

  Bean, W.J., 1970
    Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, Ed 8 Vols 1-4

2075.

  De Kort, I.& Thijsse, G., 1984
    Blumea 30 (1): 89-151. A rev. of Indigofera in S.E. Asia

2298.

  Schrire, B.D., 1993
    Personal Communication

2655.

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

2826.

  Ohashi, H., 1982
    in Satake.Wild Flws of Japan, Herb.Pls 2:186-212,pls.179-200

2828.

  Hotta, M et al, 1989
    Sekai Yuhyou-shokubutu(Useful Pls. of World) Heibonsha.Tokyo

3417.

  Fang, Y.Y. & Zheng, C.Z., 1994
    Indigofera &... In:Fl.Reip.Pop.Sinicae, 40 (Leguminosae 2)

3859.

  Sanjappa, M., 1987
    J.Econ.Taxon.Bot. 10:329-346. The Indigoferas of Sri Lanka.
[Home | Genus | Latin names]
Version 10.38 20 July 2010
© ILDIS 2006-2013
Page last revised:  24/01/2013,  16:30:37    Aweb for Alice overview