Native to 42 botanical countries across Africa and Temperate Asia; introduced into Alabama, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Florida, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Nauru, New Caledonia, New South Wales, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Society Is., Windward Is. (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.

Distribution

Distribution from Plants of the World Online (POWO). View the accepted name on POWO

Occurrences

Gereau, R 6846

February 14, 2006

Location

Tanzania, Morogoro, Ulanga

-8.619167, 36.725556

Location Remarks

Vigoi Division, Isogo Ward. Behind Chikuti Village store, along road to Ifakara. 530 m elev.

Collectors

Roy E. Gereau, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Fabales

Family

Fabaceae

Genus

Indigofera

Specific Epithet

spicata

Authorship

Forssk.

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIF WFO POWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 3.3

Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.

Threat status

Predicted not threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

0.3

Global rank

#146,644 of 335,497

Top 44%

Extinction probability

10%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →