Indigofera glandulosa var. sykesii, Griffith ex Baker (1876: 94)

Chauhan, Vibha & Pandey, Arun K., 2015, A revision of trifoliolate Indigofera (Tribe Indigofereae: Fabaceae) in India, Phytotaxa 220 (1), pp. 1-29 : 15

3.2. var. sykesii Griffith ex Baker (1876: 94) .

Type:— INDIA. Maharashtra: Poona, Herb. Griffith 1454, 6 October 1826 (holotype K!).

Synonyms:— I. glandulosa Roxb. ex Willd. var. sykesii Baker ex V. Kumar & Ramayya in Curr. Sci. 52: 429. 1983 ‘sykessi’. I. monosperma Blatt. in Jour. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 24: 341. 1930.

Differs from var. glandulosa in having 1-seeded pods, very rarely when 2-seeded, pods are globose with one end of seeds truncate.

Phenology:— Fls. & Frts. Similar to var. glandulosa .

Distribution:— INDIA: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh; endemic.

Habitat:— Agricultural fields, fallow lands, open grassy slopes of hills.

Specimen examined:— Andhra Pradesh: Medak Dist., Narsapur forests Nursery , 24 September 1991, B. R. Prasad Rao 11221 ( SKU) ; Karnataka: Belgaum Dist. , 14 October 2011, Chauhan & Pandey 1442 ( DUH) ; Madhya Pradesh: Indore Dist., Mandu , 19 September 1964, C. M. Arora 5965 ( CAL, BSA) ; Maharashtra: Aurangabad Dist., Mahismal , 750 m, 21 September 1978, D. S. Pokle 3180 ; Bombay, between Labe Deali & Andheri, 25 December 1953, Kaul and Party 5936 ( LWG) ; Satara Dist., 7th km point from Wai to Panchgani , 24 October 1982, M. Sanjappa 9513 ; Poona Dist., Khuldabad , 4 November1961, R. S. Rao 71369 ( CAL) ; Kolhapur Dist., Kaatyani , 13 October 2011, Chauhan & Pandey 1426 ( DUH) ; Uttar Pradesh: Mirzapur Dist., Kotwak house, 19 October 1964, G. Panigrahi 3075 ( CAL)

Chr. No.:— n = 8 ( Sanjappa , 1983).