3703.000 Psoralea L.

Small trees, shrubs or suffrutices, covered in prominent blackish-red glands, especially on the calyx. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate, 3–5-pinnate, 1-foliolate, or rarely reduced to scales; leaflets entire; stipules embracing the stem by the broad base, fused to petiole near the base. Flowers axillary, fasciculate, 1–5, each with or without a bract but always subtended by a lobed cupulum which itself is subtended by 2 free bracts; bracteoles absent. Calyx lobes equal, the upper 2 mostly connate; inner face of lobes invested with stubby black hairs; corolla blue; standard round; keel incurved, shortly clawed, somewhat falcate, with darker patch at tip. Ovary distinctly stipitate, 1-ovulate, glabrous with a few scattered recurved club-headed glands. Fruit pod, enclosed by the calyx at maturity, ovate, indehiscent. Seeds black, shortly funiculate.

Worldwide: 20 species, mostly in the Cape Province.

Mozambique: 2 taxa.