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longer than the length of the tube, clothed with moderately dense, white, spreading 
hairs with scattered glandular hairs (many sepals terminated by a gland). Standard 
pink-purple, broadly obovate to suborbicular, 5-6.5 mm high, 4-5.5 mm wide. Wings 
broadly obovate, 3.5-4 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide. Keel c. 6 mm long, 2 mm deep; apex 
acute; lateral pockets c. 1 mm long; hairs sparse, hyaline, restricted to the bottom near 
the tip. Staminal tube 3-3.5 mm long, probably colourless. Ovary glabrous. Pod 
spreading to descending, terete, 16-18 mm long, 2.5-3 mm deep, brown, covered in 
gland-tipped hairs, with occasional spreading biramous hairs; apex shortly beaked or 
pointed; endocarp spotted. Seed 3-4 per fruit. (Fig. 1). 
Fig. 1. Indigofera adenotricha. a, habit; b, standard; c, fruit; d, lateral view of calyx and 
androecium. (a, b, d from Russell-Smith 570; c from Brennan 1370). Scale bar: a = 40 mm; 
b, d = 2.5 mm; c = 10 mm. 
