Collections made by Petra Ballings

Standing upright

Fruit with more than 23 very long-awned carpels

Petiole short with a squat gland; bark pale grey

Very common and weedy in this area.

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In fruit

Tendrilous climber, up to 1.2m long; leaves glaucous, fruit light green

Tall specimen, c. 2.5 m high; probably planted in colonial days.

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Leaves long petiolate, rhombic-ovate, capitula small; achenes tuberculate

Fronds pilose

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Young plants; not pilose, not winged, margin not serrate

Stems leafy, prostrate/ascending; no basal rosette.

Main leaves in a basal rosette; stems ascending/erect.

Flowers tiny white, Leaves with very short white hairs.

Virgate shrub up to 1 m tall, growing in shallow water.

With inflorescences in bud

In flower

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Growing in a Dombeya rotundifolia tree.

Very common particularly on Dichrostachys cinerea

female tree.the fruits are green, with three lobules, terminal flowers.

male tree with red flowers below the leaves

Erect unbranched herb, up to 20 cm high; flowers yellow

Fruit as long or longer than perianth segments

Fruit dark, as long or longer than tepals

Calyx lobes clearly overlapping, with rufus ciliate hairs; fruit clearly ridged not much exserting the calyx; plant decumbent.

Proliferous

Slender erect herb with leaves connected at the base by a stipular sheath; flowers in a tight terminal head, pale mauve.

Clearly perennial herb with strong rootstock.

Small unbranched annual herbs 8-18 cm tall; flowers in terminal heads, c 1-1.5 cm in diameter; mauve-pink. Generally very common in the area

Very small depauperate plants only several centimeters tall.

Small flowers with extremely long style iNaturalist record

Tall and with somewhat perennial rootstock.

Small branched shrublet c. 50 cm high densely covered in small whorls of sessile leaves with needle-like leaflets, almost appearing as being 3-foliolate; flowers very small, sessile among the leaves, greenish-yellow. One specimen at collection site; generally occasional in the area. One specimen at collection site; generally occasional in the area.

Flower stalks all more than 1.5 cm long; corolla lobes much longer than calyx.

Bright yellow form