Fabaceae
Kotschya

Kotschya goetzei (Harms) Verdc.

First published in Kew Bull. 24: 25 (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

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

Morphology General Habit
Shrub 1.5–4.5 m. tall.
Morphology Stem
Stems covered with long golden tubercular-based bristly hairs and a shorter pubescence as well, usually sticky.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 20–30-foliolate; leaflets oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 0.4–1.5 cm. long, 1–3.8 mm. wide, acute and often slightly falcate at the apex, obliquely rounded or very slightly emarginate at the base, with short hairs on margins and on the almost marginal main nerve beneath; petiole and rhachis 2.5–5 cm. long; petiolules minute; stipules lanceolate, 1–1.2 cm. long, 3.5 mm. wide, acuminate, scarious, ciliate and pubescent, persistent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences axillary, ± strobilate, dense; rhachis 3–4 cm. long, covered with long golden bristly hairs; peduncle 0.7 mm. long, similarly hairy; pedicels 7–9.5 mm. long; bracts very conspicuous, broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 7–10 mm. long, 4–6 mm. wide, acute, pubescent and margined with long yellow bristly hairs; bracteoles oblong-lanceolate to ovate, 4–7 mm. long, 2–2.5 mm. wide, pubescent and similarly ciliate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx covered with long and short golden hairs, 0.9–1.4 cm. long, the upper lip divided for ± 2 cm. into 2 obliquely subacute or rounded lobes, the lower lip divided into 3 subacute or obtuse lobes, the outer 2 elliptic, the inner linear-oblong.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard yellow, sometimes veined with brown, rounded-obovate, 1.4 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, glabrous save for a very few hairs on apical margin; wings and keel probably brownish-yellow.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
Ovary 4-ovuled, pubescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit of (2–)3–4 articles, each ellipsoid or rounded-oblong, compressed, 3.5–4 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, finely rugulose, pubescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds chestnut, ellipsoid, compressed, longest dimension 3.2 mm., shorter dimension 2.5 mm., 1.5 mm. thick, slightly beaked beyond the small eccentric hilum.
Habitat
Edges of upland forest, upland evergreen bushland and grassland, often in large stands; 2100–2700 m.
Distribution
T7 not known elsewhere
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Afromontane forest, Afromontane(upland) bushland and thicket., Afromontane grassland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Shrub
[ILDIS]

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
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  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • 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 Backbone Distributions

    • 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

  • 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