Indigofera wenholdiae (Indigofereae, Fabaceae), a new species from the Western Cape Province, South Africa

Collection: Pensoft Publishers

Keywords: Indigofera · Topics: African Botany and Ecology Studies, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies

In this study, Indigofera wenholdiae, a new species of Fabaceae from the Agulhas Plain Region of the Western Cape Province, South Africa, is described. A composite photographic plate is included along with a distribution map, description of habitat and ecology and proposed IUCN conservation status. Indigofera wenholdiae is unique in the I. brachystachya group by having digitately compound (vs. pinnately compound) leaves, white and unscented flowers (vs. pink and sweetly scented flowers) and grows on sandstone hillsides (vs. coastal limestone plains and outcrops).

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