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Indigofera ammoxylum (DC.)Polhill

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HIGHER TAXON: Indigofereae

GENUS: Indigofera L.

Indigofera ammoxylum (DC.)Polhill [Preferred name]
    Bremontiera ammoxylum DC. {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Bois de Rose [1915]; Bois de Sable [1915]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Indian Ocean
Reunion (N) [1915]

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1915, 3053, 3057, 3064] ; Illustration [1915]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [1915] ; Further editing: 2005-10 Agababian M - Ed.scr.French Names ; Habit: Tree [1915] ; Lifespan: Perennial [1915] ; Source(s): 1993 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H, 2005 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H (JS2005)

  
USES:
  Chemical products [1915]; Domestic [1915]; Wood [1915]

  
NOTES:
  An Isotype in Paris is labelled from Mauritius, but this must have been [1915]
  wrongly labelled, and is from Reunion, since there is no other material from [1915]
  Mauritius. [1915]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1915.

  Polhill, R, M., 1990
    Legumineuses.In:Flore des Mascareignes,Vol 80.J. Bosser et a

3053.

  de Cordemoy, E.J., 1895
    Flore de l'ile de la Reunion

3057.

  Baker, J.G., 1877
    Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles

3064.

  Cadet, T., 1984
    Plantes rare ou remarquables des Mascareignes

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