Psoralea arborescens(C.H.Stirt.) C.H.Stirt.

WFO wfo-1000040688 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Psoralea arborescens, photographed by Brian du Preez
fig. a Brian du Preez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-11-19 / obs. 170722290
Psoralea arborescens, photographed by Brian du Preez
fig. b Brian du Preez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 170722937
Psoralea arborescens, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 24607381
Psoralea arborescens, photographed by Charles Stirton
fig. d Charles Stirton, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15270181
Psoralea arborescens, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 24594339
Psoralea arborescens, photographed by Charles Stirton
fig. f Charles Stirton, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 60801592
Psoralea arborescens, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 12445475
Psoralea arborescens, photographed by Charles Stirton
fig. h Charles Stirton, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 72814325

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 3556519
Filed as
Otholobium arborescens C.H.Stirt.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
G. Germishuizen
Origin
ZA
The sheet
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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Psoralea arborescens is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Psoralea arborescens, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 1 synonym

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Otholobium arborescens C.H.Stirt.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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