Distribution Map

Indigofera tristoides

                   
                   


Fabaceae Faboideae Indigofereae 

As at April 2024, 8 herbarium specimens, 3 photo records

South African Red List status: LC
Global Distribution: Southern Africa only

Description (Compton's Flora of Swaziland*):
Indigofera tristoides - Attractive openly much-branched, slender-stemmed shrub, thinly hairy in all pans. Leaf-stalk very short; leaflets c five pairs, well-spaced, spreading, flat, oblong, blunt-tipped, c 1 cm long x 3 mm wide. Flowers few in short raceme at end of stalk c 3 cm long; calyx c 2 mm long; corolla red, lake or bright pink, c 1,2 cm long, standard and keel hairy.

* Where species names have changed, these have been matched according to herbarium specimens quoted in this publication.

Notes:
Global distribution information: southern Africa includes southern Mozambique and southern Zimbabwe.
Restricted distribution has been based on an estimated extent of occurence of less than 100 000 km2 and/or an estimated area of occupancy of 100 km2, based on geo-referenced GBIF and iNaturalist data.