Otiorrhynchus dacicus Daniel 1898

Virgate shrub or subshrub, 0.5–2.5 m high, with slender and thin stems, young stems flexuous, with short internodes (sometimes up to 3 mm long) at the base, slightly quadrangular becoming terete; indumentum of young branches and leaves of straight, white, adpressed T-shaped hairs. Stipules 1–1.5 × 0.4–0.5 mm, narrowly triangular to falciform, pubescent. Leaves 3–6 cm long, pinnate, (5–)7–11-foliolate, sometimes 3-foliolate towards the base of the stem; petiole furrowed, 5–12 × c. 0.6 mm; rachis furrowed, quadrangular in cross section, articulated, thick black multicellular hairs (colleters) at the leaflets attachments, segments 3–7 mm long; stipels 0.1–0.5 × c. 0.2 mm, brown, thick, forming the 2 lateral apices of the rachis articles; leaflets opposite, widely obovate to orbicular, dark green above, greyish to whitish pale green below, base rounded to obtuse, apex mostly emarginate, rarely rounded, mucronate, the mucron c. 0.2 mm long, brown, margin entire, slightly revolute, secondary veins 2–5, brochidodromous, invisible adaxially, obscure to invisible abaxially; terminal leaflet 7–17 × 6–12 mm, lateral leaflets (4–)9–12 × 4–6 mm; petiolules 0.6–1.5 mm long, of the same color as the rachis. Inflorescence a 5–7 cm long raceme (6–13 cm long in fruiting state); peduncle 10–15 mm long, pubescent; bracts 1.1–8 mm long, triangular, shortly acuminate, pubescent; pedicel 2–3 × 0.2–0.25 mm. Flower 8–10 mm long; calyx 2–2.5 mm long, campanulate, asymmetrical, 5-lobed, the vexillary (upper) lobes shorter and deltoid, the carinal (lower) lobe longer and acuminate; petals white, sometimes tinged with pink, never red, standard petal c. 8–9.4 × 4.5–5 mm, elliptical or ovate, apex emarginate, pubescent outside with appressed T-shaped hairs, wing petals c. 7–7.5 × 1.5–2.5 mm, slightly shorter than the keel, narrowly obovate to oblong-linear, apex rounded, keel petals 7–9 × 2–2.5 mm, narrowly obovate, spathulate, apex rounded, valvately connate along the lower margin halfway to the tip; androecium diadelphous (9 stamens fused and the vexillary one free), staminal tube 7.5–9 × c. 2 mm; ovary c. 6-ovulate, c. 5.5 mm long, sessile, glabrous, style c. 3.5 mm long, hook-shaped at apex (hook c. 1.2 mm), stigma capitate. Pod 27–38 × c. 3 mm, straight, linear, apex acuminate by 2–4 mm, indehiscent or late dehiscent; valves reddish brown in the living plants, glabrescent or with white appressed T-shaped hairs. Seeds 2–4, c. 2.5 × 1.2–1.5 mm, rectangular; testa black.

Indigoferamonierana occurs in shrubby maquis vegetation or low forests on schisto-serpentine soil or ferritic soil. It is found in low altitudes on coastal formations from sea level up to about 700 m. Although it occurs in an open environment, it grows under the shadow of higher bushes (See Fig. 2). Coastal formations, especially sclerophyll forests, have greatly reduced (Bouchet et al. 1995, Jaffré et al. 2002).