Botanical name

Psoralea dreweae

Family

Fabaceae

Synonym (old name)

Otholobium dreweae

Status

Vulnerable

Psoralea dreweae

Description

Low-growing resprouting shrublet up to 20cm, branches dark-hairy. Leaves 1-foliolate, elliptic, hairy on veins, margins scabrous, stipules glabrous. Flowers a clerical-purple with short white and long black hairs on the calyx.

After: Priscilla Brierly Drewe (1926- ), Keeper of the Hermanus Herbarium from 1983-2006, Honorary President of the Hermanus Botanical Society. Her after-fire research on the Kleinrivier Mountains led to the discovery of this species

Habitat

Mountain fynbos, 300-400m

Flower Date

October to January, mostly after fire