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Psoralea nitens

Psoralea nitens
Photo: Brian du Preez, South Africa, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Cape Prov.
Climate
subtropical

About

Psoralea nitens is an upright, densely branched shrub of up to 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) high that is assigned to the Pea family. It has one to many initially softly hairy stems, alternately set, clover-like, upright leaves crowding the new shoots, and heads consisting of 3 pea-like, dark purple to mauve flowers on short peduncles in the axils of the leaves on short side-shoots. This species is an endemic of the mountains between Ceres and Hottentots Holland in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It mostly flowers between October and late December.

Other Psoralea plants

Psoralea curtisiae · Grimolobium holosericeum · Psoralea accrescens · Blue Fountain Pea Tree · Waterfall Fountainbush · Psoralea dreweae · Fascicled Fountainbush · Psoralea lucens · Psoralea pilifera · Fountain bush · Psoralea saxosa · Psoralea spissa

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Psoralea nitens by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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