Indigofera heterantha

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Read about Indigofera heterantha in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Inga (a West Indian name). Leguminosae. Tropical trees and shrubs, with acacia-like foliage and clusters of showy red stamens.

Spineless: lvs. abruptly pinnate, usually with glands between the large lfts.: fls. not papilionaceous, in heads, spikes, racemes or umbels, mostly 5-merous; stamens 8, monadelphous, exserted beyond the small tubular or campanulate corolla: pod narrow, often thickened at the sutures, completely or partially indehiscent.— Species upward of 150, in W. Indies and S. Amer.


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I. anomala. Hort.=Dichrostachys nutans.—I. dulcis, Willd.= Pithecolobium.—I. guadalupensis, Desv.=Pithecolobium.CH

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