Kotschya aeschynomenoides (Baker) Dewit & P.A.Duvign.

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Chisanga Falls, Nyika National Park

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At junction of Thazima-Kaperekezi rd and Chelinda rd, Nyika National Park

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Synonyms:	Damapana aeschynomenoides (Welw. ex Baker) Kuntze Smithia aeschynomenoides Welw. ex Baker Smithia mildbraedii Harms Smithia ruwenzoriensis Baker f. Smithia sphaerocephala Baker Smithia volkensii Taub.
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Status:	Native
Description:	Mostly erect, aromatic shrub 0.5–3 m tall. Stems sticky and glandular, densely covered with bristly tubercle-based hairs. Leaves 16–34-foliolate; leaflets oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 2–17 mm long, obtuse and mucronulate at the apex, asymmertric at the base, hairless save for sparse glandular hairs on the main vein beneath; basal veins 2–3, the main one submarginal; stipules lanceolate, 4–7 mm long, glandular-ciliate. Inflorescences axillary, often curved, dense; peduncle 5–15 mm long; pedicels 5–7 mm long; bracts free, falcate-lanceolate or ovate, 2–6 mm long, asymmetric at the base, pubescent. Calyx pubescent, 4–8 mm long, 2-lipped; lips elliptic or oblong, the upper deeply emarginate, the lower deeply divided into 3 rounded or acute ovate lobes. Standard white, pale lilac or bluish-violet, often darker veined mauve, 8–12 mm long, rounded, emarginate, hairless except for a few hairs on the central vein; claw conspicuous, wings white; keel white or bluish-violet. Fruit of 1–2 articles, each 2–2.5 mm long and wide, semicircular, hairless.
Type location:	Syntypes from Angola
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Derivation of specific name:	aeschynomenoides: like an Aeschynomene, probably referring to the similarity of the fruit to those of that genus.
Habitat:	In Brachystegia woodland, along margins of evergreen forest, seasonal streams, river banks, marshes, swamps, dambos or boggy drainage channels on granite outcrops.
Altitude range:	1200 - 2280 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Angola, DRC, Rwanda, Uganda, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia.
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca):	N,W,C,E
Zambian distribution (Provinces):	Cb,N,Mc
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Content last updated:	Saturday 15 September 2018
Literature:	Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 163. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 62. Verdcourt, B. (2000). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(6) Pages 128 - 130.

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