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Pearsonia

genus of plants

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ5221328 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pearsonia is a genus of 12 species of plants belonging to the family Fabaceae and occurring in Africa south of the equator with 1 species found on Madagascar. The species are usually herbs or shrublets with woody rootstocks. Leaves are usually sessile and 3-foliolate. The inflorescence is a congested or lax terminal raceme. The name of this genus commemorates the South African botanist Henry Harold Welch Pearson.

Species

Pearsonia comprises the following species:

Pearsonia aristata (Schinz) Dummer

Pearsonia bracteata (Benth.) Polhill

Pearsonia cajanifolia (Harv.) Polhill

subsp. cajanifolia (Harv.) Polhill

subsp. cryptantha (Baker) Polhill

Pearsonia callistoma Campb.-Young & K.Balkwill

Pearsonia flava (Baker f.) Polhill

Pearsonia grandifolia (Bolus) Polhill

subsp. grandifolia (Bolus) Polhill

subsp. latibracteolata (Dummer) Polhill

Pearsonia hirsuta Germish.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Pearsonia” as genus of plants. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current 118-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Pearsonia, genus and plants can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as genus of plants. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5221328. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pearsonia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.