| Indigofera glaucescens | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Genus: | Indigofera |
| Species: | I. glaucescens |
| Binomial name | |
| Indigofera glaucescens | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
Indigofera reflexaE.Mey. | |
Indigofera glaucescens is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa. [1] It is consumed by common warthogs ( Phacochoerus africanus ). [2]
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Sidalcea glaucescens is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by the common name waxy checkerbloom.
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Indigofera hendecaphylla, the creeping indigo or trailing indigo, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is native to the Old World Tropics and Subtropics, and has been introduced to various locales, including Japan and Australia. It was widely introduced as a forage plant when it was thought to be conspecific with Indigofera spicata, and then shown to be toxic to nearly all livestock, with some uncertainty as to which species was tested.
Indigofera linifolia, the narrowleaf indigo, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is very widely distributed from Sudan eastwards to the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Malesia, New Guinea and Australia, and it has been introduced to Réunion and New Caledonia. Livestock can consume it as fodder, and in times of famine humans can grind and bake the seeds into a bread.
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