Fabaceae
Kotschya

Kotschya longiloba Verdc.

First published in Kew Bull. 24: 32 (1970)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Zambia. It grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian grassland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Herb/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]

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

Morphology General Habit
Subshrubby herb 1.5–1.8 m tall; branches glandular, densely covered with very sticky yellow bristly tubercular-based hairs.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 20–30-foliolate; leaflets 4–9.5 × 1.5–2.5 mm, narrowly oblong, obtuse or obliquely subacute at the apex, obliquely rounded or slightly emarginate at the base, puberulous; margins ciliate, glandular; main nerve submarginal, 3–4 basal nerves not very marked; petiole and rhachis 2–3.5 cm long; petiolules very short; stipules 3.5 × 1.5 mm, ovate-lanceolate, scarious, ciliate, veined, persistent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences axillary, not strobiliform, 2–4 cm long, densely covered with sticky golden bristly hairs; peduncles 5–10 mm long; pedicels 7–9 mm long; bracts 4–5 × 2.5 mm, ovate acuminate, margins with bristly yellow hairs; bracteoles 3–4 × 2.5–3 mm, ovate, acute, margined with similar hairs.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx covered with tubercular-based hairs, 1.5–2 cm long, 2-lipped; the upper lip oblong, divided into 2 obtuse oblong lobes 6–8 mm long, lower lip 3-fid, the lobes 10–12 mm long, narrowly oblong, obtuse, diverging.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard yellow or orange, 1.6–1.7 × 1.2–1.3 cm, broadly elliptic or rounded, glabrous save for a few apical setae; wing and keel yellow.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
Ovary 2–3-ovulate, 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

    • '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