Fabaceae
Kotschya

Kotschya suberifera Verdc.

First published in Kew Bull. 24: 38 (1970)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Zambia. It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/135631008/135631018

Conservation
VU - vulnerable
[IUCN]

International Legume Database and Information Service

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

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

Morphology General Habit
Small tree c. 2 m tall; branches thickened, up to 2.5 cm in diameter covered with a thick, corky, brown, corrugated bark; young branchlets similar but densely covered with persistent stipules and tubercular-based hairs.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves congested at the apices of the branchlets, 7–12-foliolate; leaflets 4–20 × 1.2–6.5 mm, obliquely oblong, falcate, apiculate at the apex, very asymmetric, obliquely rounded at the base, ciliate and with glandular hairs; main nerve submarginal; petiole and rhachis together c. 2–7.5 cm; petiolules 0.5 mm long; stipules 6–8 × 4–6 mm, triangular, striate, densely covered outside with tubercular-based hairs, subpersistent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences axillary, 2–4 cm long, 1–6-flowered, rather lax, densely sticky-pilose; peduncle 5–7 mm long; pedicels 9–14 mm long; bracts 5–7 × 2.5 mm, lanceolate; bracteoles 5–6 × 1.5–2 mm, lanceolate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx glandular-pubescent, 2-lipped; upper lip 2-fid, 12 mm long, lobes 7–8 × 2–2.5 mm, lower lip 3-fid, 9–11 mm long, lateral lobes 6–7 × 2–2.5 mm, median lobe 5–5.5 × 1.5–1.8 mm; all lobes narrowly elliptic-oblong.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard dull wine-coloured (when dry), 18 × 12 mm, obovate-elliptic, rounded at the apex, auriculate, glabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
Ovary 1-ovulate, 3 × 1 mm, densely white pilose.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit not seen.
[FZ]

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]

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

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • 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