PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / FABALES / FABACEAE / PAPILIONOIDEAE / PSORALEEAE / PSORALEA / OTHOLOBIUM / VENUSTA
A. suffruticose. Stems flexuous, appressedly pubescent. Leaves trifoliolate, stipulate, sub-sessile; leaflets 2.5 cm long. 6-7 mm broad, cuneate-oblong, obtuse, mucronulate, pellucid-dotted, appressedly puberulent. Stipules subulate. Inflorescence terminal and axillary, spicate, cylindric. Peduncle and spike up to 4 cm long. Bracts subtending flowers half as long as the calyx. Calyx-tube 6 cm long, silky canescent, lobes lanceolate, acuminate, glandular: lowest lobe longest, nearly equalling the petals. From: Forbes, HML. 1937. The genus Psoralea Linn. Bothalia 3: 116-136. [CC BY]
Sprawling or trailing shrub to 1 m. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets elliptic-oblanceolate, glabrescent; stipules finely hairy. Flowers in lax racemes, white to pale mauve, calyx black-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 venustum (Eckl. & Zeyh.) C.H.Stirt.
Coastal sands, 100-200 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 venustum (Eckl. & Zeyh.) C.H.Stirt.
Lambert's Bay to Langebaan. 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 venustum (Eckl. & Zeyh.) C.H.Stirt.
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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: Enum. Pl. Afric. Austral. [Ecklon & Zeyher] 2: 231 (1836)
Type: South Africa, ‘Saldanha Bay,’ Ecklon & Zeyher 1553 (S10-1436, lecto.). Lectotype designated by Bello et al., Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 200(1): 70 (2022).
Lotodes venusta (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Kuntze, as 'venustum'
Published in: Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 194 (1891)
Otholobium venustum (Eckl. & Zeyh.) 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 venusta
27 results for Psoralea venusta Eckl. & Zeyh.
Barcode: NBG0192021-0 Collector(s) & number: Stirton, CH, 11428 | 1986-11-4
South Africa, Western Cape, Clanwilliam. 5 Km from Elands Bay to Lambert Bay.
General notes: Roadside rocky outcrops. Low spreading and trailing shrub. Stems up to 2.5 metre high.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0140825-0 Collector(s) & number: Stirton, CH, 11428 | 1986-11-4
South Africa, Western Cape, Clanwilliam. 5 Km from Elands Bay to Lamberts Bay.
General notes: Roadside rocky outcrops. Low spreading and trailing shrub. Stems up to 2.5 metre high.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG1497030-0 Collector(s) & number: Helme, NA, 9399 | 2018-8-28
South Africa, Western Cape, 4.5 km S of Vredenburg; Witteklip 123.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0721808-0 Collector(s) & number: Taylor, HC, 11216 | 1985-1-3
South Africa, Northern Cape, N. CEDARBERG; PAKHUISVLAKTE; STREAM SIDE NEAR "STOOR"
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0279843-0 Collector(s) & number: Boucher, C, 7906 | 2012-10-25
South Africa, Western Cape, Malmesbury Division. Langebaan Country Estate. Plot 12. Northern Section. Near summit around granite outcrop. 33°03'50.6"S 18°03'33"E.
General notes: Photos 3922, 3923.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0170714-0 Collector(s) & number: Boucher, C, 6363 | 1997-10-10
South Africa, Western Cape, Vredenburg - Saldanha District. Bonteheuwel/ Olifantskop north of Langebaan. Western slope of hill.
General notes: Acock's veld type 34. Closed shrubland. Hill. Slope gentle. Aspect: E. Sandy soil. Soil well-drained. Rare shrub 0.60m tall. Pale blue flowers. Rare.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0141021-0 Collector(s) & number: Stirton, CH, 11435 | 1986-11-4
South Africa, Western Cape, Clanwilliam. Nortier Experimental Farm. ( Otterdam.)
General notes: Rocky crevices. Dense sprawling shrub. Heavily grazed much relished by livestock.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0176826-0 Collector(s) & number: Boucher, C, 6575 | 2000-10-7
South Africa, Western Cape, Saldanha - Vredenburg D. Jacobsbaai. Flats imm. inland of Gonnemanskraal Resort betw. low granite rocks. 32°57'05"S,17°53'32"E.
General notes: Acocks veld type 34. Open shrubland. Plain. Slope level. Sandy soil. Granite. Soil well-drained. Mauve flag and dark pink keel to flowers. Spreading chamaephyte. Plant height: 0.3m.Rare.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0280608-0 Collector(s) & number: Helme, NA, 7827 | 2013-11-14
South Africa, Western Cape, 10 km SE of Langebaan; Elandsfontyn 349; west edge.
General notes: Uncommon, local.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0080972-0 Collector(s) & number: Compton, RH, 24196 | 1953-9-6
South Africa, Western Cape, Clanwilliam. Otterdam.
General notes: Flowers bluish.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0266596-0 Collector(s) & number: Helme, NA, 4252 | 2006-9-8
South Africa, Western Cape, Clanwilliam. 5km SW of Trawal in Skurfkop road. 31°56'06.3"S: 18°37'57.0"E. Altitude: 375 m.
General notes: Fynbos biome. Vegetation type: Graafwater Sandstone Fynbos. Gentle hill slope. Well-drained, sandy soil. Sandstone. Full sun. W aspect. No biotic effect seen. Inbud. Erect. Flowers: absent. Fruit: absent. Rare in deep sands. Veld > 10 years old. Threatened by rooibos farming. Plant height: 0.5 - 1.0 m.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0192155-0 Collector(s) & number: Boucher, C, 2942 | 1975-11-25
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Town. Schrywershoek, Langebaan Peninsula.
General notes: Alt. c. 15 m. Dune valley, fairly heavily grazed. West coast Strandveld. Flowers pink with darker keel. Scattered individuals.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0157820-0 Collector(s) & number: Cupido, CN, 10 | 1997-10-11
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Town. West Coast R27 to Velddrif. Roadside ± 10 km from Langebaan turnoff.
General notes: Sprawling shrub. Grows next to and spread onto Wiborgia sp. Flowers purple.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0721922-0 Collector(s) & number: Stirton, CH, 11428 | 1986-11-4
South Africa, Western Cape, CLANWILLIAM DIST.; 5KM FROM ELANDS BAY TO LAMBERTS BAY
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0482379-0 Collector(s) & number: Acocks, JPH, 24453 | 1970-11-18
South Africa, Western Cape, PIQUETBERG DIV.; 22,7 KM. E. OF VELDDRIF P.O.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0532231-0 Collector(s) & number: Boucher, C, 4167 | 1978-11-30
South Africa, Western Cape, BUCK BAY FARM; 1KM. N. OF HOMESTEAD AT END OF DUNE
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0430733-0 Collector(s) & number: Acocks, JPH, 15192 | 1948-10-9
South Africa, Western Cape, CLANWILLIAM DIV.; LAMBERTS BAY; NOETIER RES
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
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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 venusta Eckl. & Zeyh.
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