3796.010 Kotschya Endl.

Description of the genus

Herbs, subshrubs or shrubs. Stipules present, but may be caducous; stipels 0. Leaves pinnately 4-many-foliolate; leaflets alternate, asymmetric at base. Inflorescences distichous, mainly dense, ± scorpioid, often in the form of a strobilus; the flowers reflexed. Bracts entire, scarious, brownish and persistent; bracteoles also persistent. Calyx scarious, 5-lobed. Corolla white, yellow, blue or pink. Stamens monadelphous. Pod with 1-9 articles, folded like a concertina, enclosed in the calyx, the articles rounded, smooth.

Derivation of name: After Karl Georg Theodor Kotschy (1813-1866), Austrian botanical explorer and plant collector in the Orient.

Worldwide: 30 species in tropical Africa and Madagascar

Zambia: 21 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Provinces	Content
aeschynomenoides (Baker) Dewit & P.A.Duvign.	N,W,C,E	Cb,N,Mc	Description, Image
africana Endl. var. bequaertii (De Wild.) Verdc.	N	N,Mc
africana Endl. var. africana		N
africana Endl. var. latifoliola Verdc. [VU]	E	Mc
africana Endl. var. ringoetii (De Wild.) Dewit & P.A.Duvign.	N,W	Cb
bullockii Verdc.	N	Lp
capitulifera (Welw. ex Baker) Dewit. & P.A. Duvign. var. capitulifera	N,W,S	Cb,N,S
carsonii (Baker) Dewit & P.A. Duvign. subsp. carsonii	N,W,E	Nw,Lp,N,Mc
coalescens Dewit & P.A.Duvign.	W,C	Nw,C
eurocalyx (Harms) Dewit & P.A.Duvign. subsp. venulosa Verdc.	N	N,Mc
imbricata Verdc. [DD]	W	Nw
longiloba Verdc. [End][VU]		N
prittwitzii (Harms) Verdc. var. parviflora Verdc. [LR-lc]	N,W	Cb,Lp
prittwitzii (Harms) Verdc. var. prittwitzii	N,C
recurvifolia (Taub.) F.White subsp. recurvifolia	E	Mc	Description, Image
speciosa (Hutch.) Hepper	N	N
strigosa (Benth.) Dewit & P.A. Duvign. var. strigosa	N,W,C,S	N,C,S	Description, Image
strigosa (Benth.) Dewit & P.A.Duvign. var. grandiflora Dewit & P.A.Duvign.	N	N
strobilantha (Welw. ex Baker) Dewit & P.A. Duvign. var. strobilantha	B,N,W,C,S	Nw,N,Mc,C,Lk,W	Description, Image
suberifera Verdc. [VU]	W	Nw
uguenensis (Taub.) F. White	E		Description, Image

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