Indigofera suffruticosa Miller 1768

Rauber, Cristiane Ritter, Lima, Laura Cristina Pires, Caxambu, Marcelo Galeazzi & Temponi, Lívia Godinho, 2021, Synopsis of Leguminosae from Iguaçu National Park, Paraná, Brazil, Phytotaxa 501 (2), pp. 245-280 : 259

29. Indigofera suffruticosa Miller 1768 . ( Fig. 5H )

Distribution: It occurs from the United States to Argentina ( Moreira & Tozzi 2016b); in Brazil it occurs throughout the country ( Flora do Brasil 2020). In ParNa Iguaçu it occurs in the Céu Azul area.

Reproductive period: According to Eisinger (1987) it flowers and fruits throughout the year. In ParNa Iguaçu it was found in flower and fruit in February.

Diagnostic characteristics: The genus Indigofera is easily recognized by malpighiaceous or adpressed, straight, bifurcate trichomes and anthers with apical glands. I. suffruticosa , in addition to the characteristics just mentioned, possesses a subshrub habit, pinnate leaves, salmon-colored corolla and markedly curved fruit.

Conservation: Native-NE.

Selected examined material: BRAZIL. Paraná: Area 1, Céu Azul , 12 February 2016, (fl., fr.), M.G. Caxambu 7253 ( EVB, HCF, MBM, UFMT) .

Figures

FIGURE 5. A: Dalbergia frutescens, branch with fruit; B: Desmodium adscendens, branch with fruit; C: Desmodium uncinatum, branch with fruit; D: Enterolobium contortisiliquum, branch with fruit; E and F: Erythrina falcata: E: branch; F: glandular stipules; G: Holocalyx balansae, fruit; H: Indigofera suffruticosa, branch with fruit; I: Inga marginata, branch with inflorescence; J: Machaerium nyctitans, stem with prickles.