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Psoralea pilifera, synonym Otholobium piliferum, is a small, softly hairy shrublet of up to 30 cm (12 in) high that has been assigned to the Pea family, with branches horizontal at the base with rising tips. It regrows from the underground rootstock after fire destroys the vegetation. It has clover-like leaves on short stalks and white, pea-like flowers flushed with mauve that grow in triplets in the axils of the upper leaves of the new shoots. The species is only known from near Makhanda, Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Flowers have been seen in September and January. This is a very rare species about which little is known and which is likely threatened with extinction.
Psoralea pilifera grows on the eastern margin of the typical fynbos biome, in patches of Bhisho Thornveld and Suurberg Shale Fynbos. Its distribution is disjunct from that of all other species in this genus.
Psoralea curtisiae · Grimolobium holosericeum · Psoralea accrescens · Blue Fountain Pea Tree · Waterfall Fountainbush · Psoralea dreweae · Fascicled Fountainbush · Psoralea lucens · Psoralea nitens · Fountain bush · Psoralea saxosa · Psoralea spissa
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Psoralea pilifera 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.
