Indigofera monophylla


Indigofera monophylla is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and grows in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. It is a small, spreading shrub with purplish red flowers.

Description

Indigofera monophylla is a sparse shrub with hairy, ridged stems and simple alternate leaves long, entire leaf width wide. Corolla may be a single colour either purple or red or a combination, long, wings wide, keel wide and the calyx long. Flowering occurs from March to October and the fruit is a pod.

Taxonomy and naming

Indigofera monophylla was first formally described in 1825 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle and the description was published in Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.The specific epithet means 'leaved'.

Distribution and habitat

This species of Indigofera grows in Western Australia and the Northern Territory.