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                      Details for: Indigofera tinctoria | 
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								ILDIS World Database of Legumes  2010. (copyright © ILDIS).
 
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				Indigofera tinctoria L.
				
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                            Species | 
                           
                          
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					ACCEPTED
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		| Taxonomy (this taxon is included in): | 
		Regnum - Plantae 
				    
				Divisio - Tracheophyta 
				    
				    
				Subdivisio - Spermatophytina 
				    
				    
				    
				Class - Magnoliopsida 
				    
				    
				    
				    
				Superordo - Rosanae 
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				Ordo - Fabales Bromhead 
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				Familia - Fabaceae Lindl. 
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				Tribus - Indigofereae 
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				Genus - Indigofera L. 
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				Sectio - Indigofera sect. Indigofera 
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				
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                            	Indigofera bergii Vatke | 
							
                           
                          
                          
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                            	Indigofera cinerascens DC. | 
							
                           
                          
                          
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                            	Indigofera houer Forssk. | 
							
                           
                          
                          
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                            	Indigofera indica Lam. | 
							
                           
                          
                          
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                            	Indigofera oligophylla Baker | 
							
                           
                          
                          
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                            	Indigofera orthocarpa (DC.) O. Berg & C. F. Schmidt | 
							
                           
                          
                          
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                            	Indigofera sumatrana Gaertn. | 
							
                           
                          
                          
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                            	Indigofera tinctoria Blanco | 
							
                           
                          
                          
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                            	Indigofera tulearensis Drake | 
							
                           
                          
                          
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                            	Anila tinctoria var. normalis Kuntze | 
							
                           
                          
                          
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                            	Indigofera anil var. orthocarpa DC. | 
							
                           
                          
                          
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                            	Indigofera tinctoria var. brachycarpa DC. | 
							
                           
                          
                          
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                            	Indigofera tinctoria var. macrocarpa DC. | 
							
                           
                          
                          
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                            	Indigofera tinctoria var. torulosa Baker f. | 
							
                           
                          
						  
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		| Comments: | 
		
				(Wall.)Baker (Krym, Caucasian Black Sea coast), I. potanini (Caucasian Black, F.Pilipenko also indicates I. kirilowii Maxim. (Tashkent), I. gerardiana, Introduced to America and elsewhere for indigo., its dye, but is now naturalised., Native to Africa and India., No recent collections from Reunion and Rodrigues., Pantropical distribution., Probably introduced to the Maldives originally with a view to cultivation for, Probably introduced to the Maldives, for it's dye, but now naturalised., Sea coast) as species under experimental cultivating, Type species of genus. | 
			
	 
	
		| Common names: | 
		
				Anil (), Anileiro (Portuguese), Bengal Indigo (English), Ceylon Indigo (English), Digo (), Indigo (Finnish), Indigo (French), Indigo (German), Indigo (Spanish, Castillian), Indigo (Swedish), Indigo Sauvage (French), Indigofera (Italian), Indigofera Krasilnaya (Russian), Indigostrauch (German), Indigotier (French), Indygo (Polish), Indygowiec Barwierski (Polish), Madras Indigo (English), Pianta Dell’ Indaco (Italian), Wild Indigo (English)[Credits] | 
			
	 
	
		| Conservation Status: | 
		
				Not Threatened | 
			
	 
	
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		| Use: | 
		
				Chemical products, Domestic, Environmental, Medicine, Miscellaneous, Toxins | 
			
	 
                        
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