Indigofera adesmiifolia
Indigofera adesmiifolia, commonly known as tick indigo, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and grows in eastern states of Australia. It is a small shrub with pink pea flowers and pinnate leaves.
Description
Indigofera adesmiifolia is a shrub high with scattered, flattened hairs. The pinnate leaves up to long, wide and the rachis flattened. The leaflets are small, egg-shaped, rounded at the apex or partly notched, long, wide, arranged either side of the flattened midrib and rust-red coloured hairs. The pale pink to rose pink corolla long, in groupings of 5-20, pedicel about long, brown triangular-shaped bracts, shorter than the floral tube and the calyx hairy. Flowering occurs from September to December and the fruit is a pod long with occasional hairs.
Taxonomy
Indigofera adesmiifolia was first formally described in 1854 by Asa Gray and the description was published in United States Exploring Expedition Phanerogamia.
Distribution and habitat
Tick indigo grows in woodland on rocky slopes and ranges in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory.