Herbs or shrubs. Hairs usually medifixed. Leaves usually imparipinnate. Flowers usually in axillary racemes. Corolla usually red. Stamens united or with the upper one free; anthers apiculate. Fruit usually dehiscent. Derivation of name: Indigo-fera: indigo-bearing Worldwide: c. 700 species in tropical and warm areas Botswana: 44 taxa. Insects associated with this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| adenoides Baker f. | ||
| alternans DC. var. alternans | SW | |
| arenophila Schinz | ||
| astragalina DC. | N | Description, Image |
| bainesii Baker | ||
| cecilii N. E. Br. | Description, Image | |
| charlieriana Schinz subsp. charlieriana var. charlieriana | N,SW | Description, Image |
| charlieriana Schinz subsp. charlieriana var. lata J.B. Gillett | N,SE | |
| charlieriana Schinz subsp. sessilis (Chiov.) Schrire var. scaberrima (Schinz) J.B. Gillett | N,SW | |
| circinnata Benth. ex Harv. | SE | Description, Image |
| colutea (Burm. f.) Merr. var. colutea | ||
| comosa N.E. Br. | SE | |
| cryptantha Benth. ex Harv. var. cryptantha | ||
| daleoides Benth. ex Harv. var. daleoides | N,SW,SE | Description, Image |
| filipes Benth. ex Harv. | ||
| flavicans Baker | N,SW,SE | Description, Image |
| gairdnerae Hutch. ex Baker f. | Description, Image | |
| heterotricha DC. subsp. heterotricha | ||
| hirsuta L. | Image | |
| hochstetteri Baker | ||
| hoffmanniana Schinz | N | |
| holubii N.E. Br. | N,SE | Description, Image |
| ingrata N.E. Br. | ||
| inhambanensis Klotzsch | Image | |
| kavangoensis Schrire | N | |
| melanadenia Benth. ex Harv. | SE | |
| mollicoma N.E. Br. | SE | |
| nummulariifolia (L.) Livera ex Alston | N | Description, Image |
| ormocarpoides Baker | N | Description, Image |
| oxytropis Benth. ex Harv. | SE | |
| praticola Baker f. var. praticola | N,SE | Description, Image |
| radicifera Cronq. subsp. arthrocarpa Schrire | N | |
| rhytidocarpa Harv. var. rubrosiliqua Schrire | SE | |
| rhytidocarpa Benth. ex Harv. var. rhytidocarpa | N,SE | Description, Image |
| schimperi Jaub. & Spach var. baukeana (Vatke) J.B. Gillett | SE | |
| schimperi Jaub. & Spach var. schimperi | N,SE | Description, Image |
| sordida Benth. ex Harv. | ||
| streyana Merxm. | N,SW,SE | |
| subulata Poir. var. subulata | N,SW,SE | |
| tinctoria L. var. arcuata J.B. Gillett | N | Description, Image |
| transvaalensis Baker f. | SE | |
| trigonelloides Jaub. & Spach | N | |
| vicioides Jaub. & Spach subsp. rogersii (R.E. Fr.) Schrire | N | |
| vicioides Jaub. & Spach subsp. vicioides | N,SW,SE |