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Psoralea accrescens
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Psoralea accrescens is an upright, largely herbaceous subshrub assigned to the Pea family. It has up to three stems that carry upright branches in leaf axils near the ground, and have alternately set inverted egg-shaped leaves and lax heads consisting of 12-21 pea-like flowers on long peduncles in the axils of the lower leaves. It differs from most other Psoralea species by the calyx that continues to grow after flowering and the leaf that consists of just one leaflet. It is an endemic of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa near Loerie. It probably flowers August to January.
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Psoralea accrescens
- Slug
- psoralea-accrescens
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Psoralea
- Species
- accrescens
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 28
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