NATURALIZED :: Fabaceae (pea, or legume family) » Indigofera suffruticosa

[Dinesh Valke]

Fabaceae (pea, or legume family) » Indigofera suffruticosa (syn. Anila tinctoria, Indigofera anil)
... also placed in Papilionaceae


in-dee-GO-fer-uh -- bearing indigo
suf-roo-tee-KO-sa -- somewhat shrubby

commonly known as: Guatemalan indigo, anil, small-leaved indigo, West Indian indigo, wild indigo • Hindi: विलायती नील vilayati nil • Marathi: निळंबी nilambi • Sanskrit: नीलिका nilika, नीलिनी nilini, विषशोधनी vishashodhani • Tamil: சீமைநீலி cimai-nili

Native to: tropical Americas, naturalized in paleotropics


References:
 • Flowers of India ... http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/West%20Indian%20Indigo.html
 • NPGS / GRIN ... http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?20058
 • FAO ... http://www.fao.org/ag/AGP/agpc/doc/gbase/data/Pf000523.HTM
 • M.M.P.N.D. ... http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Indigofera.html
 • DDSA ... http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/


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Views attached from:
... Vaghbil, Thane

For more views: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Indigoferasuffruticosa&w=91314344%40N00&m=tags




Regards.

[Gurcharan Singh]

Dinesh ji

Good to see so many species of Indigofera on a single day.

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[tanay bose]

Nice collection of Indigofera species !!
Tanay

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[Dr. Hari Venkatesh.K.Rajaraman]

Dear Dinesh ji...Superb photos...

in a few references i get I.suffruticosa, I.tinctoria, I.anil,I.indica, I.sumatrana, I.arrecta as synonyms...pls clarify. . .

 

It is called seemeneeli in Kannada

 

Medicinally used in Rheumatism. . .

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[Dinesh Valke]

... you query is as good as mine.
Me too have observed this confusing statements in few sites.
Will post this query soon.

Regards.

[Gurcharan Singh]

Could this be I. tinctoria

Leaflets are too few (I can see nine) for I. suffruticosa

Pods are too long for suffruticosa 

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Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ 

[Dinesh Valke]

... many thanks for raising your doubts, Gurcharan ji.
Other friends who are familiar with Indigo species may also please put in facts.


The plant in photograph grows in my vicinity, in estuarine area.
The height is just about (hardly) a metre ... and grows as wide too.

The pods we see here are about 4 - 5 cm long, and about 3 mm wide.

Regards.

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