Indigofera trita subsp. 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, strigose outside towards the tip, ciliate along margins, lateral spur ca 0.6 mm long. Staminal sheath 3-4 mm long, anthers approximately 0.5 mm long. Ovary approximately 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, approximately 2 x 1.5 mm, subtetragonous, yellow, dark-brown, smooth (India Biodiversity, 2014).