Indigofera arrecta
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| Indigofera arrecta | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Indigofera |
| Species: | I. arrecta
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| Indigofera arrecta | |
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Indigofera arrecta, variously called the Bengal, Java, or Natal indigo, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is native to Sub‑Saharan Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and Madagascar, and has been introduced to the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, some of the islands of Indonesia, the Philippines, and Queensland in Australia.[1]
Today it is occasionally used as a green manure, but historically was a major source of Indigo dye, with 600,000 hectares (1,500,000 acres) under cultivation in India in 1896, declining to a few thousand hectares 60 years later.[2]
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Categories:
- Indigofera
- Flora of West Tropical Africa
- Flora of West-Central Tropical Africa
- Flora of Northeast Tropical Africa
- Flora of East Tropical Africa
- Flora of South Tropical Africa
- Flora of KwaZulu-Natal
- Flora of the Northern Provinces
- Flora of Swaziland
- Flora of Madagascar
- Flora of Saudi Arabia
- Flora of Yemen
- Plants described in 1847