Kotschya thymodora (Baker f.) Wild

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Conservation

Not Threatened

Ecology

Africa: Afromontane(upland) bushland and thicket., Zambezian bushland and thicket

Morphology General Habit

Perennial, Not climbing, Shrub

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

Morphology General Habit

Erect much branched shrub 1.8–4.5 m tall.

Morphology Stem

Stems very sticky and glandular, covered with shorter pubescence and also with longer yellow tubercular-based hairs.

Morphology Leaves

Leaves (16)22–32(36)-foliolate; leaflets 2–8 × 0.8–2.5 mm, narrowly oblong-lanceolate or linear-oblong, acute and oblique or very slightly falcate at the apex, obliquely rounded at the base, with short tuberculate hairs on the slightly serrulate margins and on the almost marginal main nerve beneath; petiole and rhachis together (10)15–45 mm long; petiolules minute; stipules 3–5 × 1.5–2 mm, ovate-lanceolate, pubescent and ciliate, persistent.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences

Inflorescences axillary, dense, distinctly strobilate, the flowers mostly held at right-angles to the axis; peduncle short, 0–4 mm long; rhachis 10–35 mm long, densely yellow bristly hairy; pedicels 4 mm long; bracts 3–7 × 1.5–4.5 mm, ovate, broadly elliptic or somewhat obovate, sometimes slightly falcate, conspicuously covered, particularly on or near the margins, with long yellow bristly hairs; bracteoles 3–4 × 1.2–1.5 mm, lanceolate or elliptic, acute or obtuse, pubescent and margined with bristly hairs.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Calyx covered with short and rather longer yellow tubercular-based hairs, 5.5–10 mm long, the upper lip divided for 1.5–2 mm into 2 very obtuse rounded lobes, the lower lip divided for c. one-third to half its length into 3 oblong obtuse lobes, the inner usually the narrowest.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla

Standard golden-yellow, flushed red, 10–12(14) × 6–8(11) mm, rounded oblong, glabrous; wings and keel yellow.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary

Ovary 2–5-ovuled, pubescent.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Fruit of 2–5 articles, each article compressed ellipsoid, 3.3 × 2.5 mm, pubescent with fine tubercular-based yellow hairs and slightly reticulate.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds

Seeds blackish-red, 2.8 × 2 × 1 mm, compressed-ellipsoid; hilum minute, eccentric.

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