• Home
• List of families
• Fabaceae subfamily Papilionoideae
• Kotschya
• capitulifera

Kotschya capitulifera (Welw. ex Baker) Dewit. & P.A. Duvign.
var. capitulifera

Selected images: Click on each image to see a larger version and details of the record View all images (4)

Detailed records: Display species records QDS maps by: Google Maps Point records by Google Maps

Species details: Click on each item to see an explanation of that item (Note: opens a new window)

Synonyms:	Damapana capitulifera (Welw. ex Baker) Kuntze Smithia capitulifera Welw. ex Baker
Common names:
Frequency:	Local
Status:	Native
Description:	Annual ascending or erect unbranched to much branched aromatic herb, 5–45 cm tall, ± decumbent at the base. Stems glabrous or covered with both bristly and short curved hairs. Leaves 6–20-foliolate; leaflets 2–6 × 0.5–1.5 mm, oblong, elliptic, obliquely obovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, terminated by a bristle, practically glabrous or with a few long bristly hairs on the nerves and margins; petiole 2–6 mm long; rhachis 4–19 mm long; stipules 3–4 × 1 mm, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, scarious, persistent. Inflorescences small terminal dense heads, 5–18 mm in diameter; peduncles obsolete; pedicels 2 mm long; bracts 2–4 × 2–3 mm, ovate, glabrous or pubescent; bracteoles 2–5 × 0.5–1 mm, falcate, elliptic or lanceolate, glabrous or serrulate with long cilia. Calyx 2-lipped; lips scarious and ciliate, 2.5–4 mm long, the upper lip shortly divided into 2 acute or acuminate lobes, the lower shortly divided into 3 obtuse or acute, ovate, elliptic or lanceolate lobes. Standard blue, pink, white or violet, 4–5.5(11) × 3.5–4(6) mm, ± obovate, glabrous; wings and keel similarly coloured. Fruit 2.5 mm long, of 2 articles; articles 1.2 × 1.2 mm, kettle drum-shaped, glabrous. Seeds dark reddish-brown, longest dimension c. 0.8 mm, oblong-reniform, slightly produced at one end of hilum.
Type location:	Angola
Notes:
Derivation of specific name:	capitulifera: bearing a small head(s), a reference to the head-like inflorescence
Habitat:
Altitude range: (metres)
Flowering time:	Apr - Jun
Worldwide distribution:	DRC, Angola, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe
FZ divisions:	N,W,S
Zambian distribution (Provinces):	Cb,N,S
Growth form(s):	Annual.
Endemic status:
Red data list status:
Insects associated with this species:
Spot characters:	Display spot characters for this species
Images last updated:	Wednesday 12 March 2025
Literature:	Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 23. Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 223. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 49. Verdcourt, B. (2000). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(6) Pages 137 - 138.

Other sources of information about Kotschya capitulifera var. capitulifera:

Our websites:

Flora of Zimbabwe: Kotschya capitulifera var. capitulifera

External websites:

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

• Home
• List of families
• Fabaceae subfamily Papilionoideae
• Kotschya
• capitulifera