PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / FABALES / FABACEAE / PAPILIONOIDEAE / PSORALEEAE / PSORALEA / OTHOLOBIUM / TRIANTHA
An erect or diffuse shrub, 60 cm to 1 m high, with densely pubescent spreading branches. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate: leaflets linear-spathulate, recurved-mucronate, glabrescent, the medial 2-2.5 cm long, the lateral rather shorter. Stipules small, acuminate. Flowers pink, in 3- to 6-flowered axillary and terminal racemules, the lower shortly pedunculate. Calyx sparsely pubescent, 6 mm long, the deltoid teeth shorter than the tube. Standard 9 mm long, longer, than the purple-tipped keel: blade roundish. From: Adamson, RS; Salter, TM (eds). 1950. Flora of the Cape Peninsula. Juta, Johannesburg. [All rights reserved]
Slender shrub to 2 m. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets linear-oblanceolate, glabrescent; stipules glandular. Flowers pale mauve, calyx adpressed-hairy and glandular, accrescent. 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 trianthum (E.Mey.) C.H.Stirt.
A slender shrub up to 1.2 m [as '4 ft.'] Stems erect, tomentulose. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate, stipulate; petioles about 6 mm long; leaflets 0.5-2.5 cm long, up to 6 mm broad, linear, spathulate, recurved mucronate, thick, glabrous, nigro-punctate. Stipules about 2.5 mm long, acuminate. Flowers axillary, crowded. Pedicels 0.5-1 cm long. Calyx-tube 2 mm long, 4-6 mm in diameter, pubescent, grandular; lobes lanceolate, pubescent, pilose on the inner surface; upper and lateral lobes 1-2 mm long, 0.5-1 mm broad. Vexillum 4-8 mm long, 4-6.5 mm broad, obovate, with a linear claw 1.5-2 cm long; alae 4-6 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm broad, with a linear claw 2-3 mm long; carina 2.5-3 mm long, 1.5-2 mm broad, with a linear claw 2.5-3 mm long. Ovary glabrous or thinly pilose; style 3-4 mm long, filiform. From: Forbes, HML. 1937. The genus Psoralea Linn. Bothalia 3: 116-136. [CC BY]
Lowland and mountain fynbos, 100-500 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 trianthum (E.Mey.) C.H.Stirt.
Edinburgh Estate, Claremont. From: Adamson, RS; Salter, TM (eds). 1950. Flora of the Cape Peninsula. Juta, Johannesburg. [All rights reserved]
Clanwilliam to Franschhoek. 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 trianthum (E.Mey.) C.H.Stirt.
November to February
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
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: Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr.: 88 (1836)
Type: South Africa, ‘Locos humidis ad Bergrivier’, Drège s.n. (K, lecto.; BM, BOL, G, OXF, P, W, isolecto.)
Lotodes triantha (E.Mey.) Kuntze, as 'trianthum'
Published in: Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 194 (1891)
Otholobium trianthum (E.Mey.) C.H.Stirt.
Published in: S. African J. Bot. 52(1): 4 (1986)
Psoralea triflora Poir.
Published in: Encycl. [J. Lamarck & al.] 5: 683 (1804)
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Fabales
FAMILY Fabaceae
SUBFAMILY Papilionoideae
TRIBE Psoraleeae
GENUS Psoralea
SUBGENUS Otholobium
SPECIES triantha
8 results for Psoralea triantha E.Mey.
Barcode: PRE0427330-0 Collector(s) & number: Leipoldt, CL, 632 | -12-
South Africa, Western Cape, CLANWILLIAM
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0427335-0 Collector(s) & number: Leipoldt, CL, PRE 55222 | 1926-2-
South Africa, Western Cape, MEIRINGS POORT
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0427334-0 Collector(s) & number: van Breda, APP, 235 | 1949-1-29
South Africa, Western Cape, CLANWILLIAM DIST.; ELANDSFONTEIN
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0430657-0 Collector(s) & number: Marloth, HWR, 9439 | 1920-1-
South Africa, Western Cape, GROOT DRAKENSTEIN; PAARL DIV.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0458795-0 Collector(s) & number: Leighton, FM, 21512 | 1934-12-
South Africa, Western Cape, CEDARBERG
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
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
1950
1937
No results found for Psoralea triantha E.Mey.
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