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Indigofera suffruticosa, commonly known as Guatemalan indigo, small-leaved indigo (Sierra Leone), West Indian indigo, wild indigo, and anil, [2] 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 ...
The chemical aniline, from which many important dyes are derived, was first synthesized from Indigofera suffruticosa (syn. Indigofera anil, whence the name aniline). In Indonesia, the Sundanese use Indigofera tinctoria (known locally as tarum or nila) as dye for batik. Marco Polo was the first to report on the preparation of indigo in India.
Indigofera marmorata Balf.f. – north-central Socotra; Indigofera nephrocarpoides J.B.Gillett – Socotra and Samhah; Indigofera sokotrana Vierh. – Socotra (Hajhir Mts.) Lotus mollis Balf.f. – Socotra and Samhah; Lotus ononopsis Balf.f. – north-central and northeastern Socotra; Paracalyx balfourii (Vierh.) Ali – Socotra and Samhah
Red, White, and Black Make Blue: Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life (University of Georgia Press; 2013) 140 pages; scholarly study explains how the plant's popularity as a dye bound together local and transatlantic communities, slave and free, in the 18th century. Grohmann, Adolf. Färberei and Indigofabrikation in Grohmann, A ...
Indigofera linnaei is a spreading, usually prostrate woody herb, 15–50 cm high with a long taproot, [8] which forms a flat mat up to 1.5 m across, and up to 45 cm high. [6] The compound leaves are up to 3 cm long, with (generally) 7 or 9 obovate, alternate leaflets which have a mucronate apex and are about 8–15 mm long and 2–5 mm wide.
This tribe does not currently have a node-based, phylogenetic definition, but it can be distinguished by the following morphological synapomorphies: the presence of biramous hairs, keel spurs, short free staminal filaments, and short fruiting pedicels; and the loss of stipels and seed arils.