Kotschya platyphylla (Brenan) Verdc.

First published in Kew Bull. 24: 32 (1970)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tanzania. 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/32268/2811917

Conservation
VU - vulnerable
[IUCN]

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]

International Legume Database and Information Service

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

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

Morphology General Habit
Shrub or slender-stemmed tree 4.5 (or ? more) m. tall.
Morphology Stem
Stems minutely asperous with short very thick-based hairs but without longer hairs.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 18–30-foliolate; leaflets narrowly oblong, 0.4–1.1 cm. long, 1–4.2 mm. wide, acute or subacute at the apex, usually distinctly falcate, obliquely rounded at the base, glabrescent save for ciliate lower margin and short thick hairs on the almost marginal main nerve beneath; petiole and rhachis together 2.5–5 cm. long; petiolules obsolete; stipules narrowly triangular or lanceolate, 6.5–9 mm. long, 1.5–2.5 mm. wide, ciliate, persistent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences axillary, dense but not strobilate (or scarcely so); rhachis 1.5–2.5 cm. long, covered with long golden-yellow hairs; peduncle 1–1.7 cm. long, golden hairy; pedicels 4–7 mm. long; bracts broadly elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 4.5–7 mm. long, 2.3–2.8 mm. wide, scarious, nervose, pubescent and ciliate; bracteoles oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, 3.5–5.5 mm. long, 1.1–1.5 mm. wide, acute or subacute at the apex, pubescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx covered with short golden pubescence and rather longer tubercular-based hairs, ± 1.3–1.4 cm. long, the upper lip divided for ± one-fifth of its length into 2 obliquely rounded lobes, the lower lip deeply 3-lobed, the lobes narrowly oblong or oblong-elliptic, 6–7 mm. long, obtuse, the inner the narrowest.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard yellow, rounded, 1–1.2(–1.4) cm. long, 7.5–9 mm. wide, glabrous; wings and keel probably yellow.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
Ovary 3–4-ovuled, pubescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit of 2–3 articles, each compressed-ellipsoid, 3 mm. long, 2.2 mm. wide, pubescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seed chestnut, ellipsoid-reniform, longest dimension 2.2 mm., shorter dimension 1.5 mm., 1 mm. thick, slightly beaked to the outside of the minute eccentric hilum.
Habitat
“Gregarious on exposed ridges”; 1800–1900 m.
Distribution
T7 not known elsewhere
[FTEA]

Sources

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    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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    • International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
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    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0