Fabaceae
Kotschya

Kotschya scaberrima (Taub.) Wild

First published in Kirkia 4: 159 (1964)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Tropical Africa. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the subtropical biome.

Descriptions

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
[AERP]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Afromontane grassland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Shrub
[ILDIS]

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

Morphology General Habit
Shrub 0.9–3 m tall.
Morphology Stem
Stems covered with tubercles which render them scabrid; these tubercles correspond to the tubercular-based hairs of other species but the hair part is greatly reduced in this species; the older stems are purple-brown, ridged, lenticellate and glabrescent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 12–26-foliolate; leaflets 3–7.5 × 1–1.8 mm, obliquely oblong-elliptic or linear-oblong, obliquely acute at the apex but scarcely falcate, obliquely rounded at the base, with sparse tubercles along the margins and main nerve similar to those on the stem; main nerve almost marginal; petiole and rhachis 1–3 cm long with hairs similar to the stem hairs; petiolules very short; stipules 2 × 1.5 mm, triangular, ciliate, striate, persistent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences axillary, usually ± strobilate, 15–25 mm long, bristly yellow hairy; peduncles 5 mm long, similarly hairy; pedicels 4–5.5 mm long; bracts 4 × 2 mm, obliquely ovate, acuminate, with short tubercle-like hairs; bracteoles 3–3.5 × 1.2 mm, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, with similar hairs.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx covered with very short tubercular-based hairs and some fine pubescence as well, 7–9(11) mm long, the upper lip very shortly 2-fid or divided for about one-quarter of its length into 2 oblong rounded lobes, the lower lip deeply 3-lobed, the lobes 3–3.5 mm long, oblong or elliptic, blunt, the inner the narrowest.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard yellow, 12–13 × 6–10 mm, round or elliptic, glabrous; wings and keel yellow.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
Ovary 2-ovuled, pubescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit of 1–2 articles, each article 3 × 2 mm, 1.2 mm thick, compressed oblong-ellipsoid, pubescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seed dark brown, 2.4 × 1.8 × 1.2 mm, ellipsoid-reniform; hilum minute, very eccentric.
[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