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

Zimbabwe: 7 taxa.

Kotschya strobilantha var. strobilantha

Links to taxa:     View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
capitulifera (Welw. ex Baker) Dewit. & P.A. Duvign. var. capitulifera W,S
scaberrima (Taub.) WildE
sp.no.A (Wild 1947)[End]E
speciosa (Hutch.) HepperN,W,C,E
strigosa (Benth.) Dewit & P.A. Duvign. var. strigosa C,E,SDescription, Image
strobilantha (Welw. ex Baker) Dewit & P.A. Duvign. var. strobilantha N,C,EDescription, Image
thymodora (Baker f.) Wild subsp. thymodora EDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Kotschya:

Our websites:

Flora of Caprivi: cultivated Kotschya
Flora of Malawi: Kotschya
Flora of Mozambique: Kotschya
Flora of Zambia: Kotschya

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Kotschya
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Kotschya
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Kotschya
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Kotschya
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Kotschya
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Kotschya
JSTOR Plant Science: Kotschya
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Kotschya
Plants of the World Online: Kotschya
Tropicos: Kotschya
Wikipedia: Kotschya

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Genus page: Kotschya.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=740, retrieved 29 March 2024

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