Title: Psoralea forbesiae (Psoraleeae, Fabaceae), a new species from the Swartberg Mountains of South Africa.
Authors: Stirton, Charles H.; Bello, Abubakar; Muasya, A. Muthama
Abstract: Psoralea forbesiae C.H.Stirt., A.Bello & Muasya is a new species of Psoraleeae, Fabaceae. Psoralea forbesiae is endemic to the Swartberg Mountains and is a tall densely branched re-sprouting shrub up to 2.5 m, with bluish-green stems and with most parts covered in small crater-like glands, leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, linear-oblong, pale bluish-green, semi-conduplicate, somewhat succulent, glabrous, crowded at the end of bare branches on older stems or distributed along short branches on young shoots, petiolate. A description of P. forbesiae, together with photographs and a distribution map are presented.
Subjects: SOUTH Africa; PSORALEA; LEGUMES; MOUNTAINS
Publication: PhytoKeys, 2018, Vol 99, p93
ISSN: 1314-2011
Publication type: Academic Journal
DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.99.24765

Psoralea forbesiae (Psoraleeae, Fabaceae), a new species from the Swartberg Mountains of South Africa.

Stirton, Charles H.; Bello, Abubakar; Muasya, A. Muthama