Records made by Sikhumbuzo (Nyathi) Mulunjana

Leaves with 2 basal whiskers; glands on the back; male flowers of spikes and female flowers.

Colony of purplish-black inflorescences

Thorns almost all simple, a few forked

In flower

Leaves smooth

Shrub with smooth leaves

In flower; lflts very glaucous, approx circular, raised out of the plane of the leaf.

Poor material, most likely this.

Fossilised forest site

Massive woody lianes with prominent bosses.

Very common tree in the Kanyemba area

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/191938281

Milky latex; flowers white

Low-growing shrub covered in starry white flowers

No leaves; very dried-up calyces

Poor material

M. katangensis considered but better match with engleri.

Similar to Dalbergia arbutifolia but leaves more thinly textured; lflets more subopposite and Rourea does sometimes have tendril-like branches.

Several large trees just coming into leaf and flower.

No leaves; fruit found, the valves wide open like the mouth of a hippo.

In flower

Rather atypical young shrubs with leaves clustered along the branches

In wetter parts of salt pan

Leaves with 3 leaflets only; flowers blue