Occasional in open areas and homesteads The plant was the main source of the indigo dye used for textile dyeing and printing. Leaves are also used to make hair dye and medicated hair oil. In traditional medicine, the root and leaf decoction is given for abdominal disorders, fever
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The plant was the main source of the indigo dye used for textile dyeing and printing. Leaves are also used to make hair dye and medicated hair oil. In traditional medicine, the root and leaf decoction is given for abdominal disorders, fever, arthritis and all types of toxicities. ×
Suffrutescent subshrubs; stem adpressed-pubescent. Leaves pinnately × 5-13-foliolate; leaflets opposite, 5-22 5-12 mm, elliptic to obovate, base and apex rounded, darkening on drying. Inflorescence axillary, spicate-racemose, many-flowered. Flowers 5-7 mm long, red; pedicels ca. 1 mm long. Calyx 2-3 mm long, pubescent; lobes narrow lanceolate, acuminate. Petals reddish; standard ca. 4 mm long, suborbicular. Ovary 8-12-ovuled, hairy. Pods 2-3 cm long, ca. 2 mm wide, linear, straight or slightly curved, 8-12-seeded.