Psoralea zeyheri Harv.

PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / FABALES / FABACEAE / PAPILIONOIDEAE / PSORALEEAE / PSORALEA / OTHOLOBIUM / ZEYHERI

Psoralea zeyheri Harv.

Indigenous Endemic

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Morphological description

A suffruticose, about 3 metres high. Stems slender, ascending, pubescent. Leaves trifoliolate. petiolate, stipulate; petioles up to 1.5 cm long, striate, pubescent; leaflets 0.7-4.2 cm long, 0.4-1.5 cm broad, broadly obovate, mucronulate, villous, becoming glabrescent; a few of the upper leaflets linear to ovate-linear. Stipules adnate to the base of the petiole, up to 1.3 cm long, subulate or lanceolate, acute, hispid, ciliate. Inflorescence terminal, and axillary, spicate. Peduncles 5.5-16 cm long, hirsute. Flowers sub-sessile, each subtended by a bract. Bracts ovate or linear, acute. Calyx-tube 3-4 mm long, 5-6 mm in diameter, with dark and reticulate veins, densely albo-hirsute, lobes albo-hirsute, glabrous on the inner surface; upper and lateral lobes 3-8 mm long, 0.5-1 mm broad, linear-lanceolate; lowest lobe 5-9 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm broad, reticulately veined, ovate-lanceolate. Vexillum 0.6-1.2 cm long, 5-7 mm broad, obovate, with a channelled claw 0.5-3 mm long; alae 6-9 mm long, 1.5-3 mm broad, with a linear claw 1-4.5 mm long; carina 3-5 mm long, 1-2 mm broad, with a linear claw 4-5 mm long. Ovary glabrous; style 6 mm long, glabrous. From: Forbes, HML. 1937. The genus Psoralea Linn. Bothalia 3: 116-136. [CC BY]

Resprouting subshrub to 40 cm. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets obcordate-oblanceolate, glabrescent, margins ciliate; stipules ciliate. Flowers crowded on slender, naked peduncles, white and mauve, calyx silky. 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 zeyheri (Harv.) C.H.Stirt.

Habitat

Fynbos, grasslands, 60-800 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 zeyheri (Harv.) C.H.Stirt.

Distribution

Jonkershoek to Bredasdorp. 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 zeyheri (Harv.) C.H.Stirt.

Flowering time

November to January

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Residence status

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

Accepted name

Psoralea zeyheri Harv.

Published in: Thes. Cap.1: 51, t.80 (1863)

Type: South Africa, Twenty-four Rivers, Zeyher 2375 (K00392505, holo.; G, K000392503, PRE, S, SAM, TCD, W, Z, iso.)

Synonym(s)

Lotodes zeyheri (Harv.) Kuntze

Published in: Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 194 (1891)

Otholobium zeyheri (Harv.) C.H.Stirt.

Published in: S. African J. Bot. 52(1): 4 (1986)

Classification

KINGDOM Plantae

SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae

PHYLUM Anthophyta

ORDER Fabales

FAMILY Fabaceae

SUBFAMILY Papilionoideae

TRIBE Psoraleeae

GENUS Psoralea

SUBGENUS Otholobium

SPECIES zeyheri

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Specimen records

Barcode: PRE0430722-0 Collector(s) & number: Pont, 1170 | 1929-1-

South Africa, Western Cape, CALEDON DIST.; MOSSEL RIVER; FT OF MTS

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Barcode: PRE0430724-0 Collector(s) & number: Zeyher, CLP, 2375 | 1830-11-

South Africa, Western Cape, SWELLENDAM DIV.; ZONDEREINDE RIVER; APPELSKRAAL

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Barcode: PRE0430726-0 Collector(s) & number: Boucher, C, 175 | 1968-12-20

South Africa, Western Cape, EASTERLY ASCENT PLATBERG-KOGELBERG FOR RES

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Barcode: PRE0430729-0 Collector(s) & number: Acocks, JPH, 23191 | 1962-12-18

South Africa, Western Cape, BREDASDORP DIST.; DE DAM; 5.5 MI NE OF DE DAM

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Barcode: PRE0430727-0 Collector(s) & number: Stokoe, TP, SAM 61595 | 1949-12-

South Africa, Western Cape, CALEDON DIST.; PALMIET RIVER VALLEY; GRABOUW

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Barcode: PRE0430723-0 Collector(s) & number: Galpin, EE, 11344 | 1930-12-21

South Africa, Western Cape, BREDASDORP; SLOPE OF MT RAVING

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Barcode: PRE0430721-0 Collector(s) & number: Leighton, FM, 775 | 1944-11-18

South Africa, Western Cape, CALEDON DIST.

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Barcode: PRE0430719-0 Collector(s) & number: Bolus, H, 6935 | 1895-1-

South Africa, Western Cape, HOUW HOEK; UPPER SLOPES OF MTS

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Barcode: PRE0430720-0 Collector(s) & number: Leighton, FM, 912 | 1944-12-30

South Africa, Western Cape, CALEDON DIST.

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Barcode: PRE0430725-0 Collector(s) & number: Schlechter, FRR, TRV 404 | 1896-1-18

South Africa, Western Cape, SIR LOWRYS PASS

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Barcode: PRE0459716-0 Collector(s) & number: Oliver, EGH, 3200 | 1970-12-17

South Africa, Western Cape, STEENBRAS; LARGE KLOOF S. OF DAM WALL.

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Barcode: PRE0462685-0 Collector(s) & number: Van der Schijff, HP, 7436 | 1970-12-

South Africa, Western Cape, BETTY'S BAY

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Barcode: PRE0533486-0 Collector(s) & number: Taylor, HC, 7236 | 1900--

South Africa, Western Cape, VOGELBERG; OUDEBOS FOR.

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Barcode: PRE0594834-0 Collector(s) & number: Johns, A, PRE 594834 | 1997-1-16

South Africa, Western Cape, Kleinmond, at cellphone aerial. Along service road to Vodacom antenna.

General notes: Slope: gentle. Construction site. Prostrate, coppice, leaves trifoliate. Flowers in cluster. Scattered over. Conf.: T Nkonki, 09/05/2003.

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Barcode: PRE0694342-0 Collector(s) & number: Stirton, CH, 9093 | 1981-9-18

South Africa, Western Cape, HOTTENTOTS HOLLAND VIA SIR LOWRY'S PASS

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Barcode: PRE0781871-0 Collector(s) & number: Haynes, RA, 1032 | 1975-4-2

South Africa, Western Cape, Jonkershoek State Forest Langrivier Catchment.

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Barcode: PRE0782610-0 Collector(s) & number: Rycroft, HB, 1071 | 1945-11-29

South Africa, Western Cape, Jonkershoek. Biesiesvlei.

General notes: Plant 15-20cm tall. Leaves trifoliate. Flowers white. Rare. Conf:A.Fellingham ex SAAS

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Barcode: PRE0822174-0 Collector(s) & number: Bolus, H, 6935 | 1895-1-

South Africa, Western Cape, HOUW HOEK; UPPER SLOPES OF MTS

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Barcode: PRE0984420-0 Collector(s) & number: Mostert, L, 302 | 1997-10-24

South Africa, Western Cape, Kleinmond. North Protea dorp. West bank vierde kloof.

General notes: Burned February 1997. Local abundance: Frequent.

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