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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. | '''''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 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
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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. 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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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
External links
- w:Schotia. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons license.
- Schotia QR Code (Size 50, 100, 200, 500)