Indigofera suffruticosa

TaxID: 100149

Basic Information

Indigofera suffruticosa

Anil de pasto, Wild Indigo

Indigofera suffruticosa, commonly known as Guatemalan indigo, small-leaved indigo (Sierra Leone), West Indian indigo, wild indigo, and anil, is a flowering plant in the pea family, Fabaceae. Anil is native to the subtropical and tropical Americas, including the Southern United States, the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, and South America as far south as northern Argentina. This species has been widely introduced to other parts of the world and today has a pantropical distribution. It is an erect branching shrub growing to 1 m (3.3 ft) tall with pinnate leaves, and is commonly found growing in dry, highly disturbed areas such as roadsides and fallow fields. Anil is commonly used as a source for indigo dye, and if mixed with Palygorskite clays, can produce Maya blue, a pigment used by the Mesoamerican civilizations.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Fabales

Fabaceae

Indigofera

suffruticosa

Unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Indigofera suffruticosa
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(c) Romi Galeota Lencina@BY
Indigofera suffruticosa
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(c) Robin Heymans@BY-NC
Indigofera suffruticosa
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(c) unknown@CC0
Indigofera suffruticosa
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(c) Omar Monzon Carmona@BY-NC
Indigofera suffruticosa
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(c) Ann Stafford@BY-NC

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
French Polynesia Present —

Distribution (87 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Antigua and Barbuda Present —
Aruba Present —
Angola Present —
Argentina Present —
Australia Present —
Burundi Present —
Benin Present —
Bahamas Present —
Belize Present —
Bermuda Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR17569949 leave - - 2 China:Hainan

DNA Barcodes (31 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
PRTRE440-13 - rbcLa 531 Puerto Rico 2011-06-18 -
PRTRE440-13 - matK 698 Puerto Rico 2011-06-18 -
MXBZI497-10 - rbcLa 552 Mexico 2001-08-31 15.833, -95.967
MXBZI497-10 - matK 781 Mexico 2001-08-31 15.833, -95.967
MXBZI420-10 - rbcLa 552 Mexico 2000-09-08 15.841, -95.957
MXBZI420-10 - matK 731 Mexico 2000-09-08 15.841, -95.957
MXBTX239-10 - rbcLa 552 Mexico 1986-04-23 -
MXBTX220-10 - rbcLa 552 Mexico 1987-03-06 -
MHPAD2601-10 - rbcLa 550 Costa Rica 2010-05-05 10.885, -85.472
MHPAD2601-10 - matK 778 Costa Rica 2010-05-05 10.885, -85.472
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Literature