Kotschya

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.

Kotschya is a genus of legumes in the family Fabaceae, and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Dalbergia clade of the Dalbergieae. It contains the following species:

Kotschya aeschynomenoides (Baker) Dewit & P.A.Duvign. Kotschya africana Endl. Kotschya bullockii Verdc. Kotschya capitulifera (Baker) Dewit & P.A.Duvign. Kotschya carsonii (Baker) Dewit & P.A.Duvign. Kotschya coalescens Dewit & P.A.Duvign. Kotschya eurycalyx (Harms) Dewit & P.A.Duvign. Kotschya goetzei (Harms) Verdc. Kotschya imbricata Verdc. Kotschya longiloba Verdc. Kotschya lutea (Porteres) Hepper Kotschya micrantha (Harms) Hepper Kotschya ochreata (Taub.) Dewit & P.A.Duvign. Kotschya oubanguiensis (Tisser.) Verdc. Kotschya parvifolia (Burtt Davy) Verdc. Kotschya perrieri (R.Vig.) Verdc. Kotschya platyphylla (Brenan) Verdc. Kotschya princeana (Harms) Verdc. Kotschya prittwitzii (Harms) Verdc. Kotschya recurvifolia (Taub.) F.White Kotschya scaberrima (Taub.) Wild Kotschya schweinfurthii (Taub.) Dewit & P.A.Duvign. Kotschya speciosa (Hutch.) Hepper Kotschya stolonifera (Brenan) Dewit & P.A.Duvign. Kotschya strigosa (Benth.) Dewit & P.A.Duvign. Kotschya strobilantha (Baker) Dewit & P.A.Duvign. Kotschya suberifera Verdc. Kotschya thymodora (Baker f.) Wild Kotschya uguenensis (Taub.) F.White Kotschya uniflora (A.Chev.) Hepper