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Scientific Name | Indigofera hirsuta L. |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | FABACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Least Concern |
Assessment Date | 2011/06/09 |
Assessor(s) | D.A. Kamundi & J.E. Victor |
Justification | Widespread and common. |
Distribution |
Endemism | Not endemic to South Africa |
Provincial distribution | Free State, Gauteng, Mpumalanga |
Range | Extremely widespread across Africa, Asia and northern Australia, but known from only a few records in South Africa. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Grassland, Savanna |
Description | A common weed of cultivation, this species is widely naturalized and thrives in disturbed areas. |
Threats |
| No threats. |
Population |
Population trend | Stable |
Notes |
| It is not known whether South African collections are of introduced origin or not. Gillett's distribution map for Indigofera hirsuta (Gillett 1960) indicates that it occurs along the east African coast from Kenya to Mozambique and Madagascar, and then disjunctly across central tropical and west Africa south of the Sahara, but not in South Africa. |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Indigofera hirsuta L. | Least Concern | 2011.1 | | Indigofera hirsuta L. var. hirsuta | Least Concern | Raimondo et al. (2009) | |
Bibliography |
Gillett, J.B. 1958. Indigofera (Microcharis) in Tropical Africa. Kew Bulletin Additional Series 1:1-165. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London.
Gillett, J.B. 1960. Indigofera hirsuta L. & I. astragalina DC. Kew Bulletin 14(2):290-295.
Raimondo, D., von Staden, L., Foden, W., Victor, J.E., Helme, N.A., Turner, R.C., Kamundi, D.A. and Manyama, P.A. 2009. Red List of South African Plants. Strelitzia 25. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.
Schrire, B.D. 1991. Systematic studies in the African Indigofereae (Leguminosae - Papilionioideae). University of Natal.
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Citation |
| Kamundi, D.A. & Victor, J.E. 2011. Indigofera hirsuta L. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/05/16 |
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