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Wild Indigo |
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| Vernacular name | Asia, Sarphoka | |
| Scientific name | Tephrosia purpea Pess. | |
| Family | Fabaceae | |
| Season | Rabi | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | A perennial herb, 30-60 cmheight, branchee, spreading. | |
| Leaves | Imperipinnate, 5-10 cm long, leaflets 11-21 oblanceolate, micronate, glabrous above, silky hairy beneath. | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | Flowers in leaf-opposed lax racemes, lower flowers of the racemes fascicled, petal clawed, standard, suborbicular, pubescent on the back. |   |
| Fruit/ seed | Pod 3 to 4.5 cm long, linear, slightly, red, curved, mucronate seeds are 5 to 6. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Along forest borders, roadsides | |
| Flowering and fruiting | August to December | |
| Associated with | Dry upland | |
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