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Otholobium curtisiae
Also called Fine Dottypea
Psoralea curtisiae is a small spreading shrub assigned to the Pea family. All green parts are covered in hairs and urn-like glands. It has many woody stems, small and somewhat succulent, dark green alternately set clover-like leaves and heads consisting of 3–9 white, pea-like flowers on very short peduncles in the axils of the leaves. This species is an endemic of the Overberg area in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It mostly flowers in August and September.
Psoralea curtisiae grows back from its underground rootstock after the above ground biomass is destroyed in one of the fires that occur in the fynbos every decade of two. On all six locations where O. curtisiae was known to be growing at the time of its naming, it was accompanied by Delospermum asperulum, Drosanthemum parviflorum (both Aizoaceae), Relhania garnotii (Asteraceae), Ficinia gordongrayae (Cyperaceae) and Pentaschistis eriostoma (Poaceae).
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