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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 Malawi: 12 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| aeschynomenoides (Baker) Dewit & P.A.Duvign. | N | Description, Image |
| africana Endl. var. bequaertii (De Wild.) Verdc. | N | |
| africana Endl. var. latifoliola Verdc. [End] | N | Description |
| carsonii (Baker) Dewit & P.A. Duvign. subsp. carsonii | N | |
| eurocalyx (Harms) Dewit & P.A.Duvign. subsp. venulosa Verdc. | N | |
| recurvifolia (Taub.) F.White subsp. recurvifolia | N | Description, Image |
| scaberrima (Taub.) Wild | S | |
| strigosa (Benth.) Dewit & P.A. Duvign. var. strigosa | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| strobilantha (Welw. ex Baker) Dewit & P.A. Duvign. var. strobilantha | N,C | Description, Image |
| thymodora (Baker f.) Wild subsp. septentrionalis Verdc. | N | |
| thymodora (Baker f.) Wild subsp. thymodora | Description, Image | |
| uguenensis (Taub.) F. White | N | Description, Image |
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