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Kotschya capitulifera var. capitulifera [family LEGUMINOSAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 3, Part 6, (2000) Author: B. Verdcourt
Names
Kotschya capitulifera var. capitulifera [family LEGUMINOSAE], —Drummond in Kirkia 8: 223 (1972). —Verdcourt in Kirkia 9: 473 (1974).
Information
Rootstock slender; standard 4–5 mm long.
Habitat
Grassland, particularly short seasonally waterlogged grassland on sandy soil, swamps, lateritic dambos, sometimes in crevices of rocky outcrops
Altitude range
900–1690 m.
1690
900
Distribution
Zimbabwe S Masvingo Distr., Mutirikwi (Mtilikwe) C.L., fl. 19.iii.1972, Wild 7911 (K; LISC; SRGH).Zambia S Choma Distr., 120 km north of Choma, Kabulamwanda, fl. 21.vi.1955, E.A. Robinson 1233 (K).Zambia W 11 km north of Chingola, banks of River Kafue, fl. 4.v.1960, E.A. Robinson 3709 (K).Zimbabwe W Matobo Distr., Farm Besna Kobila, fl. ii.1957, Miller 4130 (K; LISC; SRGH).Zambia N Mbala (Abercorn), road to Uningi Pans, fl. 17.iv.1963, Richards 18104 (K).
Distribution (external)
Burundi
Kenya
Tanzania
Angola
Notes
As in the case of many annuals, there is much variation in habit from very short and unbranched to robust and branched.Var. grandiflora Verdc. with flowers twice as large and stouter rootstock occurs in one place in Tanzania.
Kotschya capitulifera var. capitulifera [family LEGUMINOSAE]
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