Records made by Jeneen Hadj-Hammou

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

A yellow flowered bulbous plant. Only one plant seen.

Herb to 50 cm tall, green leaves, dark brown stems, flowers yellow with brown vertical lines outside petals, fruits orange. Scattered locally

Herb to 50 cm tall, green leaves, dark brown stems, flowers yellow with brown vertical lines outside petals, fruits orange

Unbranched herb c. 20 cm high; flowers golden yellow

Herb to 20cm. Yellow flowers. Dark green leaves, purplish stems

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

Both flowers and roots yellow. Stem slightly sticky. Fairly common locally.

Basal rosette leaves with a parsley smell when crushed. Most plants appear to have finished flowering due to the presence of old inflorescence. Fairly common here.

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

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.

Shrub to 50 cm. Small/thin green lvs in whorls. Ericoid. Small, sessile yellow fls. Many branches. Male plant.

A 4m tall tree with reddish fls. New leaves reddish.

Very common

One specimen seen

60-80 cm errect annual herb. Yellow capitula with 5-6 rays.

Patch of low-branching trees to 4m high. Trunks heavily crusted with lichens. Buds large, ovoid; sometimes much smaller. Six pairs of leaflets. Rachis softly but sparsely hairy. Leaves glossy green, leathery. Some pink-flushed young growth. Pods woody, massive.

Very long inflorescences in fruit.

low-level epiphyte iNaturalist record

Leaves hairy with a single inflorescence. Common in the area.

Lamina set with long white hairs

Common at the collection site

Clumped sedge to 20cm. Flowers ± finished, but with nutlets. Forming strong fibrous tufts on rock surfaces, hard to split.

Tufted sedge to 20cm high, with fibrous root mat adhering to rock shelves. Inflorescenece/fruits dark brown. Very common.

Single-stemmed herb to 1m. Flrs axillary in 4s. Corm or bulbil at base just below surface. Axillary infl like a viviparous bulbil with leaves coming from top of swollen bulbil. Lvs aromatic.

Strongly aromatic, sticky glandular herb; inflorescence terminal, many-flowered, flowers deep blue. Generally frequent in the area

Softly woody herb, almost 1 m tall. Single individual seen.

Spathes have white bases with a green lining on top. Yellow flowers. Base of leaves were slightly hairy. Flowers occur in groups at the tip of the stem. Fairly common on these slopes.

Scrambling Commelina to about 50cm. The flowers seem white but they could have been yellow when they were fresh. Only one plant seen.

Shrub up to 4 m tall, green leaves, green immature fruits.

Erect, unbranched, succulent herb c. 25 cm high; inflorescence a terminal corymbose head, brownish-red; flowers creamy-white. Only one specimen at this collection site but generally frequent in the area

Erect, unbranched, succulent herb up to 25 cm high; inflorescence a terminal corymbose head, brownish-red; flowers creamy-white. Common at collection site

Suculent herb up to 20 cm tall, leaves in basal rosette, flowers white turning brown

Flower heads compact. Yellow fls.

Flower heads compact. Yellow fls.

Single individual locally seen. Shrub to 50 cm, green leaves, fruits blackish, flowers maroon, stems dark brown.

Leaves whorled, fls yellow with some brown streaks.

Common but not in clumps. Grass to 1.5 m tall, green leaves, with leaf tip dry, inflorescence hairy on the base, dark green inflorescence.

Slender terrestrial herbs, up to 25 cm cm high; flowers white with purple markings in the lip. Locally common

Note by Joan Osborne: Slender foliage + habit close to C. rogersii S. Moore from South Africa. See note in FZ for differences.

Delicate twining herb, up to 30 cm long; flowers white. Several specimens seen at collecton site; generally fairly frequent in the area

Pink-flowered form

Grass to 50cm. Leaves paler green. Inflorescence straw-brown, relatively lax.

Locally common. Grass up to 1.25 m tall, green leaves, leaf sheath hairy, fruits similar to rice (golden heads).

White fls. A few plants seen locally

Shrub, 1 m height, leaves green, fruits green covered by a huge calyx. Single individual locally seen

Soft-wooded shrub up to 2.5 m high; flowers in terminal racemose clusters, violet; peducles, pedicels and calyces purple-red with long whitish bristly hairs. Extensive colony at collecting site; locally common in the area

Red-flowered form

Infested with Helixanthera woodii (Loranthaceae) parasite.

Shrub to 1.5 m. Thin lvs. Many branches. White-pink fls turning orange when old. Sessile infl. A lot of pollen (wind-pollinated).

Erect, unbranched, annual herbs up to 18 cm high, flowers in the upper axils, together forming a terminal head; calyx broadly winged; corolla mauve-purple. Locally frequent

Tufted sedge to 30cm. Stems spreading, dark green. Nutlets green/brown, terminal and axillary. Locally common.

Mostly unbranched erect herbs up to 80 cm high; flowers violet pink. small colony seen, far less numerous at colection site than Dissotis pulchra

Aquatic herb. Feathery green leaves. No obvious roots. Locally common.

Small tree c. 5 m tall; leaves glossy dark green above, paler below with deep purple petioles; fruit c. 8 mm in diameter, orange-yellow often with red spots or tinge, together forming large clusters below the leaves. One specimen seen

Shrub up to 4 m tall, branching horizontally, dark glossy leaves, dark green fruits

Scrambling shrub up to c. 3 m tall with long branches; flowers in dense axillary heads; creamy-white. One specimen seen at collection site

Occuring in clumps. About 50 cm tall. A few plants seen.

In fruit

Several specimens in fruit

Locally common. Grass to about 50 cm tall, leaves hairy beneath, leaf sheath brownish, inflorescence green.

Roots with strange, brownish "galls"(?)

Small annual herbs, up to 20 cm high; flowers small, white in terminal heads on stem and branches; fruit green with purple edgings, with 3-4 pointed appendages or lobes?. Very common at the collecting site forming extensive weedy colonies.

Slightly succulent herb. White fleshy roots. Leaves mostly basal, often reddish. Flowers in a terminal head, pale purple.

Small shrublet c. 60 cm high. Fruit dark red.

Climber. Green stem. Creamy white flowers, tubular. Big green calyx. Black spots on leaves. Growing with Smilax.

One specimen seen at collection site but frequent in the area

A strggling plant with lilac flowers. Only one plant was seen at this locality.

Erect herb to 20 cm. Flrs violet with green tube. Growing in clusters.

Small succulent green herb, 10-15 cm. Stamens brown, exposed. Locally common.

Tree up to 5 m height, leaves dark green upperface, pale underneath, fruits green, four lobed

Stunted shrubby specimens, growing together with other ericoid vegetation such as Helychrysum, Polygala, Erica pleiotricha and Erica hexandra.

Erect perennial herb to 25 cm. Wings yellow-green with dark veins. Keel petal true blue. Scattered in the area.

Shrub to 2.5 m tall, too hairy green mature leaves, pale green younger leaves. Common locally

Common just above the tree line of Uapaca-Brachystegia woodland.

Older flowers

Shrub up to 2 m tall, green small leaves, greyish bark, fruits green. Leaves small and leathery, probably due to exposed habit of this specimen.

Shrub up to 2 m tall, green leaves, fruits green. Fairly common locally.

Somewhat stunted tree with very leathery leaves in more exposed situation than its normal forest habitat.

Scrambling shrub to 2 m. Glossy dark green leaves. Clustered black fruit. Only one specimen seen.

Erect perennial herb to 25 cm. Growing from a corm. Fls mauve-pink. Growing in clusters.

Trailing herb under garsses, rooting at nodes. Leaves trifoliate. Flowers axillary, mostly solitary. Standard yellow with red veins, lips bright red. Locally common

A prostrate plant with red flowers, leaves trifoliate and rough. Very common here.

Erect terestrial orchid to 40 cm. Pale green stem. 2 spurs. Sepals curved down, pressed close to stem. Lvs pointing upwards. Flrs yellow - lime green. Small group of 5 orchids growing together.

Small annual herbs, up to 20 cm high; flowers yellow with winged calyces. only few plants seen

Several plants both in flower and fruit.

Erect perennial herb to 60 cm, fls mauve-pink with darker pink ring in centre. Stem is dark red. Thin lvs curved upwards, sessile, pale green. Sometimes multiple stems. Locally common.

Erect herb to 40 cm tall. Flrs light pink with dark pink streaks on petals and dark pink throat. Locally common.

Erect annual herbs up to 30 cm high; flowers white. Numerous specimens at collecting site.

Tiny herbs, up to 4 cm high, with numerous tufted flowering stems up to 4 cm high; leaves numerous in a basal rosette, linear to narrowly elliptic, up to 1 cm long, recurved; flowerheads solitary on each peduncle, straw-coloured probably finished. Many plants seen but only in the one bare patch

Small shrubby tree

Tree to 8 m. Dark leathery green lvs. Panicle infl. Flrs not yet open. Flr buds tinged pink.

A small grass growing in clumps. Less than 10 cm tall. Common here.

Common here.

iNaturalist record

Dominating species in this patch of woodland.

Small tree to 5m. Some small stilt roots at base. Leaves whorled, large, leathery. Few saplings around.

Annual herb to 3cm. Small mauve lipped flowers, 1 or 2 per plant. No leaves.

With a 5-lobed petal almost palmate. Purple flowers. Fairly common on these slopes.

Tiny leafless herbs, up to 5 cm high, with wiry flowering stems and 1-few flowers; corolla 2-lipped mauve and white, spurred.

The specimen in the images appears to be the first record from the MS division

Herb to 30 cm. 3-lobed yellow fls. Solitary. Locally common.

Erect herb to 10 cm. 3-lobed yellow flr. Growing in clusters. Locally abundant

A creeper with white small flowers.