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'''''Schotia''''' is a genus of [[flowering plant]]s in the [[legume]] family, [[Fabaceae]]. It belongs to the sub family [[Caesalpinioideae]]. It occurs in southern Africa.
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Schotia (named for Richard Schot, companion of Jacquin during his travels in America, 1754-1759). Leguminosae. Small trees or unarmed shrubs, suitable for greenhouse-growing.
 
Schotia (named for Richard Schot, companion of Jacquin during his travels in America, 1754-1759). Leguminosae. Small trees or unarmed shrubs, suitable for greenhouse-growing.
  
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* ''[[Schotia brachypetala]]''
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
 
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Schotia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Caesalpinioideae. It occurs in southern Africa.


Read about Schotia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Schotia (named for Richard Schot, companion of Jacquin during his travels in America, 1754-1759). Leguminosae. Small trees or unarmed shrubs, suitable for greenhouse-growing.

Leaves odd-pinnate; lfts. leathery, or small; stipules short: fls. red, showy, clustered in short panicles; bracts and bracteoles ovate or oblong, caducous; calyx-tube disk-bearing, turbinate, short or the base long-attenuate, segms. 4, strongly imbricated; petals 5, slightly unequal, subsessile, imbricated, either ovate or oblong or minute scale-like; stamens 10, free, or shortly connate at the base; ovary stipitate: legume oblong or broad-linear. — About 6 species, Subtrop. and S. Afr. CH


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