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Psoralea nitens
About
Psoralea nitens is an upright, densely branched shrub of up to 1.5 m 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.
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Psoralea nitens
- Slug
- psoralea-nitens
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Psoralea
- Species
- nitens
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 28
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