Indigofera atriceps Hook. f.
subsp. atriceps

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Kaperekeza road, Nyika National Park

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Manyenezi Forest, Southern Loop, Nyika National Park

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Synonyms:	Indigofera alboglandulosa Engl. Indigofera atriceps Hook. f. var. (Engl.) J.B. Gillett Indigofera masukuensis Baker Indigofera setosissima Harms var. major Cronquist
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Status:	Native
Description:	Mostly a woody, shrubby herb up to 1 m tall but sometimes a scrambling shrub up to 3 m high. Stems red or brown, more or less densely covered with short gland-tipped hairs and whitish and brown appressed hairs. Leaves pinnate, mostly 9 to 15-foliolate up to c. 9 cm long; leaflets elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate, 6-25 mm long, stigose with appressed biramous hairs on both surfaces, gland-tipped hairs sometimes present on the midrib beneath. Inflorescences of 20-80-flowered racemes, up to 16 cm long. Calyx 2.5-4 mm long with linear-lanceolate lobes up to 3 times as long as the tube, densely strigose and sometimes with gland-tipped hairs on the lobes. Corolla 5-8 mm long, wine-red, strigose hairy on the back of the standard. Pods straight, 8-15 mm long, more or less densely covered with gland-tipped hairs and brown to blackish strigose, beaked by the persistent style base.
Type location:	Cameroon
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Habitat:	In grassland, at margins of evergreen montane forest, mixed woodland, along rivers dambos and streams or on rocky outcrops.
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Worldwide distribution:	Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria, Cameroon, DRC, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique,Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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Growth form(s):	Shrub over 2 m.
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Literature:	Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 161. Da Silva, M.C., Izidine, S. & Amude, A.B. (2004). A preliminary checklist of the vascular plants of Mozambique. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 30 Sabonet, Pretoria Page 69. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 245. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 48. Ntore, S. & al. (2024). Checklist of the vascular plants of Burundi Page 124. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 61. Schrire, B.D. (2012). Papilionoideae-Indigofereae Flora Zambesiaca 3(4) Pages 230 - 232. (Includes a picture). Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 99. as Indigofera atriceps Troupin, G. (1983). Fabaceae (Papilionaceae) Flore du Rwanda Spermatophytes Volume II Page 43.

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Indigofera atriceps Hook. f. subsp. atriceps