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Psoralea venusta Eckl. & Zeyh.
Indigenous Endemic
Morphological description

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.

Habitat

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.

Distribution

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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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 venusta Eckl. & Zeyh.

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).

Synonym(s)

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

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Barcode: PRE0430733-0 Collector(s) & number: Acocks, JPH, 15192 | 1948-10-9

South Africa, Western Cape, CLANWILLIAM DIV.; LAMBERTS BAY; NOETIER RES

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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

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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.

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Date: 10/3/2011 12:00:00 AM

Western Cape

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Date: 10/23/2012 12:00:00 AM

Western Cape

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Date: 11/13/2013 12:00:00 AM

Western Cape, South Africa

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Date: 9/10/2014 12:00:00 AM

Western Cape

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Date: 8/5/2021 10:43:00 AM

Western Cape

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Western Cape

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Date: 8/27/2021 4:24:02 PM

Western Cape, South Africa

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Date: 2/24/2020 12:21:00 PM

Western Cape, South Africa

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Date: 9/13/2022 2:32:00 PM

Western Cape

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2022

PERIODICAL/JOURNAL

Phylogenetic relationships and biogeography of Psoraleeae (Fabaceae) Bello, A; Stirton, CH; Chimphango, SBM; Muasya, AM

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 200: 39-74

2012

SERIES CHAPTER

Fabaceae: Otholobium C.H.Stirt. Stirton, CH; Schutte, AL

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

1986

PERIODICAL/JOURNAL

Notes on the genus Otholobium (Psoraleeae, Fabaceae) Stirton, CH

South African Journal of Botany 52: 1-6

1937

PERIODICAL/JOURNAL

The genus Psoralea Linn. Forbes, HML

Bothalia 3: 116-136

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