Stalkless Indigo is a trailing annual herb, branches
with greyish white. Leaves are imparipinnately compound, leaf-stalk
about 4.5-10 mm long, leaflets 5-7, alternate, about 4-10 mm long,
about 3.5-4.5 mm broad, inverted-lanceshaped or elliptic, blunt,
velvet-hairy on both sides; stipules linear, pointed, hairy. Flowers
are borne in stalkless heads hugging the leaf axils. Bracts are minute
pointed, velvet-hairy. Flowers are stalkless, red, about 3-5 mm long,
shaped like pea flowers. Sepal-cup is 3.5-4.5 mm long, teeth long,
linear, hairy. Fruit is about 6-12 mm long, linear, velvet-hairy,
beady, 3-6-seeded. Stalkless Indigo is found in Arabia; Eritrea; Sudan;
Nigeria, Senegal ,Pakistan, and India. Flowering: February-April.
Identification credit: Yogesh Sharma
Photographed in Rewari, Haryana.
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