Collections made by Mike Bingham

Tree 8 m high.

Gwembe Distr.; Chipepo E.

Suffrutex in fallow field.

Trailing herb. Flower.

Massive vine covering two trees, in prolific bloom, and attracting bees in great numbers, clearly audible at 50m. Male flowers, slightly scented; pollen creamy-white.

Male flower buds (green)

Tips of fronds take root when they touch ground

Aquatic with floating stems.

Shrub on suffrutex plain.

Common

Flower

Tube pink.

Abundant. Pale yellow or cream flowers widespread on the woodland floor, appear to be of this species.

Suckering shrub at riverine fringe, on limestone.

Weed in fish ponds.

Flower.

15m tall tree .

Medium-size tree.

Cultivated. Flower. (ex. Nat. Bot. Gard., Harare.

Bark smooth, pale. Stamens pink basally. A single sapling and a few seedlings or root suckers nearby

Flower

Cultivated. Flower. (ex Zambezi escarpment, Zambia).

Woodland/dambo ecotone.

Flower.

With Salix and Phragmites.

Collected from a riverine island in Kalungwishi R. above Kabwelume Falls and flowered at Dabuyu Farms, Lilayi, Lusaka

Flowers orange.

This is an isolated population which has not flowered for several years.

Flowers

Ripe fruit

Small tree at margin of riverine forest.

Pods

Tree 14 m

Flowers white.

Inflorescence green.

Weed in reservoir.

Small tree, in prolific flower. CIMPAKWE

Suffrutex in woodland, corolla blue.

Fruit attract green pigeons.

Tree in village

Coppiced tree.

Two very local populations found.

Annual

Weed in cultivation.

Annual herb in miombo woodland. Ray florets pink.

Annual herb in miombo woodland. Ray florets purple.

River bank at foot of gorge. Caudex erect.

Tree; occasional in Kalahari woodland; to 8 m; leaves dull green; fruits light green.

determined as Bothriocline laxa

determined as Bothriocline laxa

Lake Kariba. Open woodland.

Forming large tufts.

Coppiced tree

Frequent; tree of all sizes; multiple-trunked; all parts with golden-brown hairs; young pods yellow-green; bark tan-grey.

Tree in village: Identification: two leaflet pairs; panicles behind the leaves on 1-year-old growth.

Tree

Dominant tree.

Stunted tree, 4m high. Flowers.

Local at woodland margins.

Dominant woodland tree.

Sterile.

Tree in riverine forest.

Small tree at foot of steep hill. Wavy leaflet margins distinguished this from B.floribunda. Sterile.

Tree in woodland and riverine fringe. ‘Muzombo’ (Lungu)

Shrub 1.5 m high.

Woodland codominant.

Seedlings.

Shrub in thicket.

Annual herb, erect, sticky glandular.

Silt over limestone.

NU: Tentative, "spikelets mostly disintegrated")

Garden weed

Shrub, ca. 1 m high, common in thicket.

Cultivated from seed obtained from the Zimbabwe National Botanic Gardens.

Corona green.

Miombo woodland.

Flowers in bud

Small tree in riverine forestem ‘Kanyambulu’ (Lunda)

Small tree.

Small tree, 4 m high, elsewhere to 6 m. Deciduous.

Small tree.

Much-branched evergreen tree.

Weed.

Ruderal.

Suffrutex.

MIKENA (Lozi).

Straggling herb in grass.

Flower

Flower

Small tree, 6 m high, with straight bole; bark bluish, peeling off in papery strips.

Fruit. Bole slightly fluted.

Tree on termite mound.

Fruit.

Shrub in Itigi thicket.

Shrub; common; in Kalahari woodland on deep white Kalahari sands; stems brown; leaves light green; fruits, resinous, flat oval, green.

Small tree, 4 m high, tending to be scandent. Fruit.

Tree, medium-sized. Few seen.

Temporary pool

Temporary pool

Rooted in mud.

Scandent. Drupes yellow.

Tree in woodland. Flowers pink.

Spreading and upright; stems dull green; calyx very light green; standard a dull yellow-light orange, inside brighter yellow; wings bright yellow; keel light green; young pods light green.

Frequent, among grasses; calyx green; bracteole deep red-purple; standard pale orange with darker red-purple stripes; wings similar; keel pale orange at beak, light green proximally.