Indigo Sauvage is a prostrate velvet-hairy herb with
compound leaves. Leaflets are up to 1.5 x 0.8 cm, obovate, with a short
sharp point, base wedge-shaped, silky velvet-hairy; leaflet-stalk is up
to 1 mm, stipule 5 mm, linear, hairy. Flowers are white, shaped like
pea-flowers. Bracts are 5 mm, linear; calyx tube 2 mm, velvet-hairy,
lobes 3 and 2 mm, linear, hairy. Flowers are 8 mm long; staminal tube 6
mm, filaments 2 mm; ovary 4 mm, woolly, style 2 mm, hairless. Pods are
3 cm long, 4 mm wide, oblong, velvet-hairy. Indigo Sauvage is found
throughout the Tropical world.
Identification credit: S. Kasim
Photographed in JNU campus, Delhi.
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