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Indigofera himalayensis; photograph peganum from Henfield, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SApeganum from Henfield, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Indigofera himalayensis Ali

Fabaceae · Afghanistan, India +2

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Summary

Indigofera himalayensis, the Himalayan indigo, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the western Himalayas. It is a deciduous shrub reaching 1.5 m (5 ft), with a cultivar called 'Silk Road' that is readily available in commerce.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Indigofera himalayensis", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 3 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 3 of the 3 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeAfghanistan, India, Pakistan, West Himalaya · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 3 georeferenced records inside the native range; none carries a licence permitting republication, so the map shows no points. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 3 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3).

Other Indigofera 30 in the reference

Indigofera amblyantha Indigofera amblyantha Pink-Flowered Indigo Photo: CC BY-SA, 阿橋 HQIndigofera ammoxylon Indigofera ammoxylon Fabaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, justine decrooIndigofera australis Indigofera australis Australian indigo Photo: CC BY-SA, James K. DouchIndigofera bungeana Indigofera bungeana False indigo Photo: CC BY, angryphycoIndigofera caroliniana Indigofera caroliniana Carolina indigo Photo: CC0, author not statedIndigofera cassioides Indigofera cassioides Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Firos AKIndigofera cytisoides Indigofera cytisoides Brilliant Indigo Photo: CC BY-SA, Paul EmmsIndigofera decora Indigofera decora Fabaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, KENPEIIndigofera hedyantha Indigofera hedyantha Regret Indigo Photo: CC BY, Morten RossIndigofera hendecaphylla Indigofera hendecaphylla Trailing indigo Photo: CC0, author not statedIndigofera heterantha Indigofera heterantha Himalayan indigo Photo: CC0, author not statedIndigofera heterophylla Indigofera heterophylla Fabaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Dave U all 31 ›

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Fabaceae
Described by
Ali
Native to
Afghanistan, India, Pakistan +1
Wild records
3 in range · 0 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-223 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 1 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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