Fabaceae
Kotschya

Kotschya princeana (Harms) Verdc.

First published in Kew Bull. 24: 52 (1970)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tanzania. 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]

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

Morphology General Habit
Small bushy subshrub or shrub 0.75–1.8 m. tall.
Morphology Stem
Stems purplish-brown, covered with long greyish-white bristly spreading hairs scarcely if at all tubercular-based.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 8–18-foliolate; leaflets narrowly oblong, nearly always distinctly falcate, 1.2–4 mm. long, 0.6–0.8 mm. wide, acute or apiculate at the apex, obliquely rounded at the base, glabrescent or with very scattered long bristly hairs; margins entire; main nerve submarginal; petiole and rhachis together 0.5–1.2 cm. long, with long bristly hairs; stipules ovate-lanceolate, 5–7 mm. long, 1.2–2 mm. wide, acuminate, striate, ciliate with long white bristles, persistent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences axillary, short but running together to form very dense terminal oblong heads 1.5–7 cm. long, 2–2.5 cm. wide; peduncles of individual inflorescences 2–3 mm. long; pedicels 4–5 mm. long; primary and secondary bracts ovate or rounded-ovate, 4–6 mm. long, 2–4 mm. wide, acute, denticulate-ciliate; bracteoles lanceolate, 2.5–3.5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, denticulate-ciliate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx green tinged red, pubescent, 5–6 mm. long, the upper lip oblong, emarginate, the longer lower lip shortly divided into lobes, the outer pair rounded, obtuse, the central one triangular, acute.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard deep blue with darker veins, obovate-oblong, 8–9 mm. long, 5.5 mm. wide, emarginate, glabrous; wings deep blue; keel cream with dark blue veins.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods not seen but very young ones consisting of 2 articles, hairy.
Habitat
Upland grassland; 1600–1950 m.
Distribution
T6 T7 not known elsewhere
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

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

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

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

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/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