PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / FABALES / FABACEAE / PAPILIONOIDEAE / PSORALEEAE / PSORALEA / OTHOLOBIUM / OBLIQUA
An erect shrub up to 15 metres. Stems branched, villous when young, at length glabrescent, leafy. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate, stipulate; petioles up to 6 mm long; leaflets up to 3.1 cm long and 1 cm broad, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, mucronulate, densely glandular, glabrescent, shiny; lateral leaflets unequal sided. Stipules membraneous, about 6 mm long and 2.5 mm broad, ovate. Flowers axillary, in threes. Pedicels shorter than the leaves; sometimes three pedicels on short peduncle. Calyx-tube 2 mm long, 7-8 mm in diameter, nerved, glandular, villous; lobes villous, glandular, ciliate, glabrous on the inner surface; upper and lateral lobes 4-5 mm long, 1-1.5 mm broad, lanceolate, acute; lowest lobe up to 8 mm long, and 3 mm broad, ovate, very acute, almost cuspidate. Vexillum 9 mm long, 7-8 mm broad, obovate, with a channelled claw 1 mm long; alae up to 1 cm long, 3-4 mm broad, with a linear claw 2-3 mm long; carina 3-4 mm long, 2 mm broad, with a linear claw 2-3 mm long. Ovary glabrous; style 2.5 mm long, glabrous. From: Forbes, HML. 1937. The genus Psoralea Linn. Bothalia 3: 116-136. [CC BY]
Resprouting shrub to 1 m. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets obovate, glabrescent and glandular; stipules glabrous. Flowers variable, mostly mauve (blue, pink, white) with purple nectar patch, calyx hairy and densely glandular. From: Stirton, CH; Schutte, AL. 2012. Fabaceae: Otholobium C.H.Stirt. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 566-569. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Otholobium obliquum (E.Mey.) C.H.Stirt.
Mountain fynbos, 360-1300 m. From: Stirton, CH; Schutte, AL. 2012. Fabaceae: Otholobium C.H.Stirt. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 566-569. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Otholobium obliquum (E.Mey.) C.H.Stirt.
Piketberg to Kogelberg. From: Stirton, CH; Schutte, AL. 2012. Fabaceae: Otholobium C.H.Stirt. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 566-569. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Otholobium obliquum (E.Mey.) C.H.Stirt.
July to November
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Occurrence in the Flora of Southern Africa (FSA) countries and South African provinces. Residence status indicates if a taxon is indigenous, endemic, naturalised or invasive in a specific region. This data is based on specimen records and literature
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Names and Sources
Published in: Linnaea 7(2): 164 (1832)
Type: South Africa, Hottentots Holland, Zeyher 1824 (S-08-12855, lecto.). Lectotype designated by Bello et al., Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 200(1): 68 (2022).
Lotodes obliqua (E.Mey.) Kuntze, as 'obliquum'
Published in: Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 194 (1891)
Otholobium obliquum (E.Mey.) C.H.Stirt.
Published in: S. African J. Bot. 52(1): 3 (1986)
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Fabales
FAMILY Fabaceae
SUBFAMILY Papilionoideae
TRIBE Psoraleeae
GENUS Psoralea
SUBGENUS Otholobium
SPECIES obliqua
32 results for Psoralea obliqua E.Mey.
Barcode: PRE0430821-0 Collector(s) & number: Compton, RH, 5809 | 1935-9-28
South Africa, Western Cape, FRANSCHHOEK FOR RES
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Barcode: PRE0430826-0 Collector(s) & number: Werdermann, E, 340 | 1958-10-1
South Africa, Western Cape, STELLENBOSCH DIV.; JONKERSHOEK
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Barcode: PRE0430828-0 Collector(s) & number: Marloth, HWR, 1842 | 1888-1-
South Africa, Western Cape, SOMERSET WEST; SNEEUWKOP
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Barcode: PRE0430825-0 Collector(s) & number: Stokoe, TP, SAM 8288 | 1946-10-
South Africa, Western Cape, PAARL DIV.; FRANSCHHOEK PEAK
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Barcode: PRE0459713-0 Collector(s) & number: Taylor, HC, 6960 | 1966-10-12
South Africa, Western Cape, STELLENBOSCH DIV.; JONKERSHOEK; SWARTBOSKLOOF
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Barcode: PRE0626295-0 Collector(s) & number: McDonald, DJ, 767 | 1981-11-9
South Africa, Western Cape, SWARTBOSCHKLOOF; NEXT TO PATH FROM "WINDY" LOOKOUT HUT TO SESYSKLOOF
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Barcode: PRE0659977-0 Collector(s) & number: Van Wyk, AE, 1914 | 1976-12-16
South Africa, Western Cape, PAARL; DROSTERSBERG; PLAAS VAN WA DE KLERK TEEN HANG VAN BERG
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Barcode: PRE0680227-0 Collector(s) & number: Stirton, CH, 9937 | 1981-11-24
South Africa, Western Cape, JONKERSHOEKBERGE.; KLEINPLAAS.
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Barcode: PRE0694275-0 Collector(s) & number: Stirton, CH, 9089 | 1981-9-17
South Africa, Western Cape, JONKERSHOEK
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Barcode: PRE0716619-0 Collector(s) & number: Stirton, CH, 9939 | 1981-11-24
South Africa, Western Cape, JONKERSHOEK; CATCHMENT AREA.
General notes: Parents Stirton 9937 x Stirton 9938.
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Barcode: PRE0736067-0 Collector(s) & number: Esterhuysen, EE, 35743 | 1982-1-23
South Africa, Western Cape, PAARL DIST.; BAINS KLOOF MTS.; OBSERVATION POINT, ON THE SHALE BAND.
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Barcode: PRE0746455-0 Collector(s) & number: Esterhuysen, EE, 35814 | 1982-11-14
South Africa, Western Cape, PAARL DISTRICT; ROESBOS PEAK; AND SLOPES BELOW ALONG RIDGE ON NORTH SIDE OF PEAK, ON SUMMIT.
General notes: Old unburnt plants on spots protected from fire have become woody and appear to have a single trunk, or 2-3, but after burning.
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Barcode: PRE0774843-0 Collector(s) & number: Goldblatt, P, 8657 | 1987-11-25
South Africa, Western Cape, SIMONSTOWN; LANDROST KOP; SLOPES WEST OF HIKING TRAIL HUTS ABOVE A SEEP
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Barcode: PRE0781443-0 Collector(s) & number: Goldblatt, P, 8692 | 1987-11-30
South Africa, Western Cape, Jonkershoek State Forest Berg River contour path near Berg River Neck
General notes: Rocky South facing slopes. Shrub to 2m tall. Flowers pale blue. ex MO
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Barcode: PRE0782083-0 Collector(s) & number: Floyd, G, PRE 60928 | 1948-9-19
South Africa, Western Cape, Jonkershoek Swartboskloof
General notes: Bushy slopes. Det.R.S.Adamson ex SAAS
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Barcode: PRE0782422-0 Collector(s) & number: Kerfoot, O, K 5074 | 1965-2-
South Africa, Western Cape, Stellenbosch Dist. Jonkershoek. Langrivier.
General notes: Montane scrub. Shrub. Flowers buff-coloured yellowish shades. ex SAAS
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Barcode: PRE0782421-0 Collector(s) & number: Kerfoot, O, K 6084 | 1967-10-
South Africa, Western Cape, Stellenbosch Dist. Jonkershoek. Between Eerste Rivier & 2nd Waterfall.
General notes: Shrub. Leaves trifoliate and gland dotted. Common. Det:H. du Plessis ex SAAS
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Barcode: PRE0782615-0 Collector(s) & number: Rycroft, HB, 1045 | 1945-11-13
South Africa, Western Cape, Biesievlei. Jonkershoek.
General notes: Up to 1m tall, erect, leafy & much branched. Sandy soil amongst TMS rocks. Pale blue flowers. Not common. ex SAAS
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Barcode: PRE0783314-0 Collector(s) & number: Wicht, CL, 398 | 1936-9-2
South Africa, Western Cape, Jonkershoek. Behind Manor House.
General notes: 2-3ft tall. Flowers white with mauve markings. ex SAAS
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Barcode: PRE0522486-0 Collector(s) & number: Kruger, EF, 44 | 1975-10-29
South Africa, Western Cape, JONKERSHOEK STATE FO; SWARTBOSCHKLOOF NAT. RES.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0821868-0 Collector(s) & number: Haynes, RA, 1170 | 1975-12-8
South Africa, Western Cape, Jonkershoek State Forest. Stellenboschberg
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG1474561-0 Collector(s) & number: Nicholson, G, 982 | 2012-10-24
South Africa, Western Cape, Paardeberg, between Wellington and Malmesbury. Lemoenkloof:±500 m N of farm buildings.
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This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
2022
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
Phylogenetic relationships and biogeography of Psoraleeae (Fabaceae) Bello, A; Stirton, CH; Chimphango, SBM; Muasya, AMBotanical Journal of the Linnean Society 200: 39-74
2012
SERIES CHAPTER
Fabaceae: Otholobium C.H.Stirt. Stirton, CH; Schutte, ALIn: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 566-569
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
1986
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
Notes on the genus Otholobium (Psoraleeae, Fabaceae) Stirton, CHSouth African Journal of Botany 52: 1-6
1937
No results found for Psoralea obliqua E.Mey.
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