Fabaceae
Kotschya

Kotschya imbricata Verdc.

First published in Kew Bull. 26: 73 (1971)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Zambia. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

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: threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian woodland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Shrub
[ILDIS]

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

Morphology General Habit
Small shrub with many slender woody unbranched stems to 0.6 m tall.
Morphology Stem
Stems covered with rather dense erect white hairs above, chestnut-brown and somewhat fissured at the base.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 20–50-foliolate, fasciculate on very short side shoots; leaflets very small, 1–3 × 0.5–1 mm, oblong-ovate to narrowly oblong, acute and very shortly mucronulate at the apex, mostly very oblique at the base, glabrescent save for long marginal cilia, mostly several-nerved from the base, the midnerve ± central, venation yellowish and prominent beneath; petiole and rhachis together 6–25 mm long; petiolules obsolete; stipules 8 × 1.5 mm, lanceolate, scarious, striate, very persistent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences axillary and falsely terminal, dense and cone-like, 10–15 × 10 mm, ovoid, sessile, scented; pedicels 1–2.5 mm long; bracts tightly imbricate, 5–6 × 5 mm, obliquely ovate, pilose; bracteoles 4 × 2 mm, ovate, pilose, slightly joined at the base, persistent, veined.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx densely pilose, 7–8 mm long, the upper lip of two oblong-lanceolate lobes 7 × 2 mm, joined for half their length, lower lip deeply 3-lobed, the outer lobes 2 × 2 mm, flat, lanceolate, the midlobe 7 × 2.5 mm when flattened out, boat-shaped.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard crimson, 9.5 × 9 mm, broadly obovate-quadrate, truncate or concave at the apex and with a densely pilose mucro 2 mm long which continues from the midrib which is densely pilose outside in the upper half; wings and keel crimson.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
Ovary 2-ovuled, densely pilose.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit not seen.
[FZ]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • International Legume Database and Information Service

    • International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • World Checklist of Vascular plants (WCVP)

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0