Fabaceae
Kotschya

Kotschya carsonii (Baker) Dewit & P.A.Duvign.

First published in Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 86: 213 (1954)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Guinea, Ivory Coast, Tanzania to S. Tropical Africa. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

Leguminosae, J. B. Gillett, R. M. Polhill & B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1971

Morphology General Habit
Erect shrub 0.3–1.8(–?4.5) m. tall.
Morphology Stem
Stems glandular, sticky, densely covered with ± golden bristly tubercular-based hairs.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 14–26(–30)-foliolate; leaflets elliptic or ± oblong, 0.5–1.7 cm. long, 2–6.5 mm. wide, eccentrically acute and mucronulate at the apex, obliquely rounded at the base, sometimes denticulate and glandular-ciliate, glandular pubescent to practically glabrous on both surfaces; basal nerves 4–6, the principal one submarginal and bristly beneath; venation rather prominent beneath; petiole and rhachis together 1–6.5 cm. long; petiolules 0.5 mm. long; stipules ovate-lanceolate, 0.7–1.5 cm. long, 2.5–4 mm. wide, acute, scarious, pubescent, persistent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences axillary, dense, 3–5 cm. long, subsessile or with a peduncle up to 1 cm. long; pedicels 1–1.2 cm. long; bracts ovate or lanceolate, 0.6–1.2 cm. long, 3–4 mm. wide, acuminate, pubescent and setose; bracteoles free, ovate or lanceolate-falcate, 4–9 mm. long, 2–2.5 mm. wide, acuminate, pubescent and setose.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx pubescent and setose, 1.5–2.2 cm. long, 2-lipped, the upper divided for two-thirds to three-quarters of its length (one-third in subsp. reflexa) into 2 rounded lobes, the lower for over three-quarters of its length into 3 acute lanceolate lobes.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard orange-yellow, rounded, (1.4–)1.5–2 cm. long, (0.8–)1–1.5 cm. wide, glabrous save for a few hairs on the main nerve; wings and keel yellow.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods of 2(–3) articles, each oblong, 5 mm. long, 3.5–5 mm. wide, pubescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds chestnut, elliptic-oblong, longest dimension 3.5 mm., shorter dimension 2.5 mm., 1.5 mm. thick, slightly beaked on the outside of the small eccentric hilum.
[FTEA]

Leguminosae, B. Verdcourt. Flora Zambesiaca 3:6. 2000

Morphology General Habit
Erect shrub 0.3–1.8(?4.5) m tall.
Morphology Stem
Stems glandular, sticky, densely covered with ± golden bristly tubercular-based hairs.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 14–26(30)-foliolate; leaflets 5–17 × 2–6.5 mm, elliptic or ± oblong, eccentrically acute and mucronulate at the apex, obliquely rounded at the base, sometimes denticulate and glandular-ciliate, glandular-pubescent to practically glabrous on both surfaces; basal nerves 4–6, the principal one submarginal and bristly beneath; venation rather prominent beneath; petiole and rhachis together 1–6.5 cm long; petiolules 0.5 mm long; stipules 7–15 × 2.5–4 mm, ovate-lanceolate, acute, scarious, pubescent, persistent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences axillary, dense, 3–5 cm long, subsessile or with a peduncle up to 1 cm long; pedicels 10–12 mm long; bracts 6–12 × 3–4 mm, ovate or lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent and setose; bracteoles free, 4–9 × 2–2.5 mm, ovate or lanceolate-falcate, acuminate, pubescent and setose.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx pubescent and setose, 15–22 mm long, 2-lipped, the upper divided for two-thirds to three-quarters of its length (one-third in subsp. reflexa) into 2 rounded lobes, the lower for over three-quarters of its length into 3 acute lanceolate lobes.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard orange-yellow, (14)15–20 × (8)10–15 mm, rounded, glabrous save for a few hairs on the main nerve; wings and keel yellow.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit of 2(3) articles, 5 × 3.5–5 mm, each article oblong, pubescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds chestnut-brown, 3.5 × 2.5 × 1.5 mm, elliptic-oblong, slightly beaked on the outside of the small eccentric hilum.
[FZ]

Papilionaceae, Hutchinson and Dalziel. Flora of West Tropical Africa 1:2. 1958

Morphology General Habit
A shrub like the last (Kotschya lutea)
Morphology Stem
Almost bristly stems
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Yellow flowers.
[FWTA]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/56564659/56564706

Conservation
LC - least concern
[IUCN]

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian grassland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Shrub
[ILDIS]

Uses

Use
Medicine
[ILDIS]

Sources

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