Indigofera polygaloides

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Indigofera polygaloides M.B.Scott

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Indigofera amaliae Domin (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wilson_2008 (14). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 50 records in 10 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 23 mm (18-30 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; Wilson_2008]
fruit_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; Wilson_2008]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 11.25 mm (5-20 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; Wilson_2008]
leaf_width (numerical): 7 mm (3-12 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; Wilson_2008]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); obovate (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Wilson_2008]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Wilson_2008]
leaf_lamina_division (categorical): trifoliate (1) [sources: Wilson_2008]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wilson_2008]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wilson_2008]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (2) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnnnn (1) [sources: NTH_2014]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.23 m (0.1-0.3 m) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2; Wilson_2008]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	12	15	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Wilson_2008	10	14	P. G. Wilson and R. Rowe. “A revision of the Indigofereae (Fabaceae) in Australia. 2. Indigofera species with trifoliolate and alternately pinnate leaves”. Telopea 12 (2008), pp. 293-307.
NTH_2022	4	4	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
NTH_2014	3	3	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.