PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / FABALES / FABACEAE / PAPILIONOIDEAE / PSORALEEAE / PSORALEA / OTHOLOBIUM / HETEROSEPALA
Resprouting shrub to 2.5 m. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate, leaflets oblong, laterals gibbous, glabrescent; stipules ciliate. Flowers white and mauve, calyx subglabrous or hairy, prominently glandular, lowest sepal larger, broadly ovate. 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 heterosepalum (Fourc.) C.H.Stirt.
Perennial, resprouting shrub, up to 2 m high. Leaves trifoliolate. Leaflets: medial ones obovate-cuneate; lateral ones shorter and very unequal sided, glabrescent, recurved mucronate; prominently nigro-punctate in dried specimens. Stipules small and ciliate. Flowers with pedicels axillary, usually 3 together, white and purple. Calyx subglabrous. Flowering time Oct., Nov. From: Boatwright, JS; et al. 2019. Fabaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(2): 926-1066. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Otholobium heterosepalum (Fourc.) C.H.Stirt.
Mountain fynbos, forest margins, 260-730 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 heterosepalum (Fourc.) C.H.Stirt.
Along forest margins and in mountainous areas; Indigenous Forests, Eastern Fynbos-Renosterveld, Albany Thicket. From: Boatwright, JS; et al. 2019. Fabaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(2): 926-1066. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Otholobium heterosepalum (Fourc.) C.H.Stirt.
Langkloof to Humansdorp. 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 heterosepalum (Fourc.) C.H.Stirt.
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Names and Sources
Published in: Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa 21: 95 (1932)
Type: South Africa, Eastern Cape, Humansdorp, The Heights, Fourcade 4225 (BOL115920, lecto.)
Otholobium heterosepalum (Fourc.) 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 heterosepala
24 results for Psoralea heterosepala Fourc.
Barcode: PRE0783437-0 Collector(s) & number: Vlok, JHJ, 1722 | 1986-11-29
South Africa, Western Cape, Outeniqua Mountains Campherskloof on N foothills about 3km SW of Herold.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0426672-0 Collector(s) & number: Galpin, EE, 3961 | 1897-9-13
South Africa, Eastern Cape, HUMANSDORP; CLARKSON; NR. HUMANSDORP
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0745371-0 Collector(s) & number: Vlok, JHJ, 1210 | 1985-10-17
South Africa, Eastern Cape, STEYTLERVILLE; SUUR ANYS HILLS; AT TOP OF KAREEDOUW PASS ON STEEP SOUTH FACING SLOPE
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Barcode: PRE0825299-0 Collector(s) & number: Schlechter, FRR, 6012 | 1894-11-17
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Humansdorp District: amongst rocks near Clarkson.
General notes: Det: G Germishuizen
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Barcode: NBG0015920-0 Collector(s) & number: Compton, RH, 4555 | 1933-12-21
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Humansdorp. Kareedouw.
General notes: White.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG1483633-0 Collector(s) & number: Euston-Brown, D, 1582 | 2011-10-31
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Karreedouw, Assegaaibos. Pass over Suuranysberg from Assegaaibos.
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Barcode: NBG0192154-0 Collector(s) & number: Stirton, CH, 11603 | 1986-11-13
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Longmore State Forest Station ± 1km NE of lookout tower, van Stadenbergrus.
General notes: Dry edge of forest. Single plant. Decumbent to erect shrub. Flowers white. Standard has a purple nectar patch.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0192274-0 Collector(s) & number: Thompson, MF, 1816 | 1973-9-8
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Steytlerville. Zuuranys Pass above Kareedouw.
General notes: Alt. 1200 ft. South slopes: dry, rocky area. Occasional plants apparently coppicing to 3 ft: only a few flowering. Flowers white with mauve.
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Barcode: PRE0721920-0 Collector(s) & number: Stirton, CH, 11603 | 1986-11-13
South Africa, Eastern Cape, VAN STADENBERG RUS; LONGMORE STATE FOR.; C 1KM N.E. OF LOOKOUT TOWER
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Barcode: NBG0052565-0 Collector(s) & number: Rycroft, HB, 2333 | 1961-10-28
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Humansdorp. Zuuranys.
General notes: White, Virgate, Shrub 1m.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0192153-0 Collector(s) & number: Fourcade, HG, s.n. | 1927-11-
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Clarkson.
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Barcode: NBG0148085-0 Collector(s) & number: Vlok, JHJ, 1210 | 1985-10-17
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Steytlerville. Suur Anys hills on top of Kareedouw Pass.
General notes: In moist sandy soil on steep south facing slope. Locally abundant resprouting shrub, up to 70cm tall. Dull white flower with centre of vexellum and carina dark blue.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0431019-0 Collector(s) & number: Thode, J, A 806 | 1926-6-
South Africa, Eastern Cape, HUMANSDORP DIST.; CLARKSON
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Barcode: NBG0192156-0 Collector(s) & number: Rycroft, HB, 2333 | 1961-10-28
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Humansdorp. Zuuranys.
General notes: White. Virgate. Shrub 1m.
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
2019
SERIES CHAPTER
Fabaceae Boatwright, JS; et al.In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(2)926-1066
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
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
No results found for Psoralea heterosepala Fourc.
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