Psoralea pinnata

Psoralea pinnata, in Afrikaans the fonteinbos (fountain bush) or bloukeur (blue hallmark or blue blossom), is an erect shrub or small tree bearing willowy branches to heights from 1 m to 4 m. The bark is pale brown marked in white, the lower stem usually bare. The small stems are angular.

The species distribution is from the southern coast of the Western Cape through the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, as well as inland in the Mpumalanga and Limpopo Lowveld and beyond the northeastern border in some neighbouring countries. Some sources give the distribution as only the far Western Cape, presumably ascribing a different identity or identities to the plants found in the wider range. The plant is also found in Australia, presumably as an escape.

The habitat in the narrow, Western Cape range is fynbos on mountains, along forest margins and watercourses. More widely, it is associated with non-fynbos, summer rainfall terrain on slopes, forest edges and marshes. Either way the species is not considered threatened in habitat early in the twenty first century (Marais, et al, 2017; Manning, 2007; Bean and Johns, 2005; Coates Palgrave, 2002; Pooley, 1993; iNaturalist; http://pza.sanbi.org; http://redlist.sanbi.org).