Indigofera stachyodes

Indigofera stachyodes Lindl. (syn: Indigofera bodinieri H.Lev.; Indigofera bodinieri H. Lév.; Indigofera dosua auct. non D.Don (misapplied); Indigofera dosua var. stachyodes (Lindl.) H.Lev.; Indigofera dosua var. stachyodes (Lindl.) H. Lév.; Indigofera dosua var. tomentosa Baker; Indigofera tomentosa Graham);

Bhutan (N); Cambodia (N); China (N); Guangxi ; Guizhou; Yunnan ; India (N) ; Andhra Pradesh; Arunachal Pradesh ; Manipur ; Meghalaya ; Sikkim; Tamil Nadu; West Bengal; Myanmar (N) ; Nepal (N) ; Thailand (N) ; Vietnam (N) as per ILDIS;

Long Spiked Indigo

SK1248 01 JUL 2018 : 16 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (7)- around 800 kb each.

Location: Kalimpong, WB, India

Date: 9 May 2018

Altitude: 4100 ft.

Habit : May be wild.

Which Fabaceae ??

It is Indigofera heterantha Wallich ex Brandis – Himalayan indigo

Looks different from images at Indigofera heterantha

To me it seems to be Hedysarum campylocarpon.

Plate 30 of The Flowers of The Himalaya by Polulin and Stainton refers.

I guess it is not matching.

did you get a flower and dissect it?

secondly with so many flowers, were there any seed pods?

I thought it would be easy to identify so did not give much attention about fruit pods. By the way, image 4 and 5 shows slight indication of fruiting stage.

Indigofera stachyodes Lindl. ??

Thanks, …, for the id.

To me also appear close to Indigofera stachyodes as per

http://www.plantillustrations.org/illustration.php?id_illustration=30677&SID=0&mobile=0&code_category_taxon=9&size=1

http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=116818&flora_id=2

http://picssr.com/photos/haile/page162?nsid=34469974@N00

Thank you …! By the way this is not listed in Nepal.