Family | FABACEAE |
Genus species | Indigofera intricata Boiss. |
Bibliography | Fl. Orient. 2: 190 (1872) |
Native Range | Arabian Peninsula to Pakistan |
Primary Biome | Desert or Dry Shrubland |
Habitat | dry, sandy grassland |
Description | grey hispid, ramose, interlaced, leaves subsessile, 2-3-jugate, leaflets minute, complicate, cuneate, truncate, mucronate, peduncles thick, few-flowered, spinose |
Size | 15-25cm |
Color | purple |
Bloom | spring |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | dry, sunny site with a poor, sandy soil alpine house, sandy soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring after hot water treatment, germ. 1-3 months basal cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Anil intricata (Boiss.) Kuntze |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 34 Western Asia (IRN Iran) 35 Arabian Peninsula (GST Gulf States, OMA Oman, SAU Saudi Arabia, YEM Yemen) 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (PAK Pakistan) |