Indigofera trita scabra

Erect, woody herbs or shrublets, 30-200 cm high; branches erect to horizontal, pinkish to light green, coarsely strigose, biramous hairs short, white, adpressed with equal arms. Leaves long, 5-7-foliolate, often basal leaves 3-foliolate; stipules 1-2 x 0.3-0.5 mm, narrowly triangular, hairy outside; petioles 1-2.5 cm long, canaliculate above, hairy; rachis 5-12 mm long; stipellae absent; petiolules 1-1.5 mm long; leaflets 3, very rarely 5, opposite. Racemes 5-15 cm long. Flowers pink to brick red, 4-5 mm long; bracts 1-1.5 mm long, narrowly triangular, caduceus; pedicels up to 1.2 mm long. Calyx adpressed white pubescent, cup 0.5-1 mm long, teeth 1-1.5 x 0.5 mm, narrowly triangular. Standard 3.5-4.5 x 3-4 mm, orbicular, sometimes broadly obovate, rounded and mucronate at apex, adpressed strigose on the back; wing petals 3-4 x 1 mm, glabrous ciliate along margins; keel petals 3-4 x 1-1.5 mm, adpressed strigose outside towards the tip, ciliate along margins, lateral spur ca 0.6 mm long. Staminal sheath 3-4 mm long; anthers ca 0.5 mm long. Ovary ca 3 mm long, linear, glabrous, up to 10-ovuled; style 1-1.5 mm long, glabrous. Pods more than 3 cm long, curved, dropping; seeds 6-10, ca 2 x 1.5 mm, subtetragonous, yellow, dark-brown, smooth.