Fabaceae FAMILY

Kotschya aeschynomenoides

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Kotschya aeschynomenoides is an erect, occasionally decumbent, aromatic shrub with sticky stems; it can grow from 15 - 300cm tall[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use of its wood.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeTropical Africa - Cote D'Ivoire; southern Sudan and Kenya, south to Angola, Zambia, Malawi, southern Tanzania

HabitatGrassland; evergreen bushland with Hypericum; Philippia bushland; Oxytenanthera thicket; Protea, Pteridium grassland; Brachystegia woodland; evergreen forest margins; wet places[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. ].