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  • COMMON NAME: Scarlet pea
  • ARABIC: نيله
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Indigofera articulata Gouan
  • SYNONYMS: I. glauca
  • FAMILY: FABACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Dubai , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Wadi
  • TYPES: Perennial
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://www.floraofqatar.com/indigofera_articulata.htm
Gray, undershrub, up to 60 cm high. much branched, pubescent, with appressed silky hairy. Leaflets 3-5, rarely 7 or 1, opposite or subopposite, silky hairy on both sides, 8-20 mm long and 5-15 mm broad, obovate to elliptic, obtuse. Inflorescence 8-25 flowered, almost sessile raceme. Bract small, pedicel 1-1.5 mm long. Flowers 3-4 mm long. Calyx 1-2 mm long, pubescent. Standard reddish-yellow, 3-4 mm long densely appressed pubescent externally. Ovary sessile; style glabrous; stigma capitate. Pod 6-9 mm long, torulose, pubescent, 1-3 seeded, each 1-seeded portion globose. Seeds globular, smooth. Flowering from November to March.
Rocky wadies and gravely places.
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