Records determined by Rügheimer

60 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 60cm high. Leaves: ovate, margin serrate. Fruits: green, born on terminal ends of branches, covered with long red trichomes.

Suffrutex with a tendency to climb in other shrubs and trees. Main stems light to dark brown, smooth, with a large hook at each node, much branched, lateral stems many, armed. Leaves needle-like, long, in fascicles of 3-5 on the lateral shoots, fascicles far apart. Flowers and fruit absent.

Herbaceous climber. Twisting.

Woody climber. Main stem with large hooks, glabrous, light grey, twining in trees and shrubs. Leaves linear, needle-like, very long, in fascicles.

Suffrutex. Stems branched, semi-erect, silvery grey. Bark smooth, armed with prominent straight thorns, lateral branches flexible, drooping, green. Leaves linear, needle-like, in fascicles on long thin branchlets. Flowers and fruit absent.

Shrub; Tree; Notes: Shrubs, occasionally also trees. Leaves compound, yellowish below, dull green above, leaflets ovate, asymmetric. Shoots and axillary buds covered with a rusty brown velvet. Stems light brown. White sand. Mixed shrubland and woodland. Common.

Tree; Notes: Tree, 8 - 15 m high. Leaves compound, yellowish below, dull green above, leaflets ovate, asymmetric. Shoots and axillary buds covered with rusty brown velvety hairs. Stems light brown. Pods in terminal clusters, light lime green, ovoid, flat, single-seeded. White sand. Common.

Annual herb, 25 cm high. Flowers single, orange. Leaves compound, consisting of 4 leaflets. Stems thin, erect, hairy. Pods green, flat, sickle-shaped, covered with glandular hairs.

Creeper; Notes: Annual creeper. Leaves alternate, cordate, felty, apex rounded or notched, mucronate. Stems trailing, many radiating from the centre, mostly unbranched, brown. Fruit small fleshy berries, red, round, sessile, in terminal leaf axils. Uncommon. On road verge.

Climber; Notes: Climber, growing in fence. Leaves small, cordate, velvety, light green below, dark green above, apex pointed. Stems flexuous, twining around fence, pubescent, light green to brown. Flowers tiny, in terminal panicles, yellowish-green, hairy on the outside. Black clay. Rare.

Small to medium-sized tree, 3-5 m high. Fruit 4-winged, apple-shaped, copper coloured to brown, wings yellowish-green. Leaves large, drooping, opposite, softly pubescent below, glabrous above.

25 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 25 cm high. Flowers yellow, petals spatulate, 2-lobed, subtended by a falcate bract. Bract slit open to base, margins covered with erect hairs. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, softly pubescent, ochna hairy, densely appressed to stem. White sand. Scattered under trees in shade.

50 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 50cm high. Leaves: alternate, ovate-elliptic, folded in midrib, margin smooth; ligule fringed. Flowers: terminal, orange-yellow.

30 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 30cm high. Flowers: blue. Leaves: elliptic - lanceolate.

25 cm high; Herb; Notes: Annual herb, 25 cm high. Flowers small, blue, spathe valves fused at the base, bracts sparsely covered with bristly hairs. Leaves elliptic, scabrid, tapering into a long narrow cylinder at the base, ochna with red bristles along the margins. Stems erect, hairy, green. White sand. Under trees in shade.

Herb; Notes: Small annual herb, 5 - 10 cm high. Stems mostly unbranched, erect, herbaceous, light green, sparsely pubescent. Leaves linear, lamina long and narrow. Stipules very long and narrow, reddish. Flowers small, yellow, sessile, in pairs in the terminal leaf axils. Pods long, linear, narrow, split into 3 horns at the apex. Common but localized.

Climber; Herb; Notes: Climbing herb. Stems thin, brown, with milky latex, occasionally climbing. Leaves opposite, elliptic, dark green with yellowish venation, apex pointed. Fruit a horned pod, in pairs. Occasional. In woodlands under trees in partial shade. White sand.

Herb; Notes: Herb, 20 - 35 cm high. Leaves opposite, elliptic, dark green, veins yellowish, apex pointed. Stems thin, dark brown, sometimes twining, with milky latex. Fruit immature, long, cylindrical. White sand. Common.

Herb; Notes: Herb. Flowers in dense axillary clusters, blue, filaments feathery, tepals short, bracts with a white woolly indumentum. Leaves very long, lanceolate, stiff, held erect, folded along the midrib, covered with a white woolly indumentum. Voucher for photograph. Growing under trees in shade. Scattered. White sandy soil.

Herb; Notes: Annual herb. Flowers blue, sessile, enclosed in bracts, filaments feathery, blue, anthers yellow, bracts woolly. Stems and leaves woolly. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, long, glabrous above. White loamy sand. Rare. Growing under trees in partial shade. Voucher for photograph.

50 cm high; Herb; Notes: Soft woolly herb, 50cm high. Flowers: filaments blue in colour and tomentose, anthers yellow. Leaves: linear, folded in the midrib.

10 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 10cm high. Leaves: linear long. Flowers: purple-blue, stamen blue, hairy, anthers yellow.

Geophyte; Notes: Geophyte, up to 0.75 m when in flower, growing among thorny thicket; rhizome horizontally elongate, much-branched, with dense fibrous roots. Leaves lanceolate. Inflorescence a raceme. Flowers 2 - 2.5 cm in diameter; perianth segments mauve-pink.

Geophyte; Notes: Geophyte, up to 1 m high when in flower, growing within dense thorny shrubbery. Leaves elongate-ovate, bright green, glabrous. Inflorescence a raceme, unbranched. Flowers 30 mm in diameter; perianth segments golden yellow.

Herb; Notes: Hairy, prostrate herb. Flower: head in leaf axils. Leaves: opposite, with brown centre, margin serrate.

Shrub; Tree; Notes: Height: 1 - 3 m. Small shrub/tree. Common.

Geophyte; Notes: Geophyte, 80 - 100 cm high. Inflorescence a long graceful spike, flowers pale yellow with red venation, opening pointing down. Leaves few, lanceolate, venation parallel. Corms 2 cm in diameter, brownish outside, round. In depression. Voucher for photograph.

Geophyte; Notes: Geophyte, 60 - 80 cm high. Inflorescence a few-flowered spike. Flowers pale yellow with red venation. Leaves linear, narrow, tapering into a pointed apex, with prominent parallel venation. Very attractive when in flower. Has horticultural potential. Black clay. Rare.

Climber; Notes: Fleshy climber, on host Dialium. Leaves: whorled arranged, apex tendrillate. Flowers: red- orange, terminal.

Geophyte; Notes: Geophyte, up to 1 m above ground. Stems floppy, unbranched, round. Leaves sessile, glossy green, lanceolate, tips transformed into tendrils. Flowers large, showy, held upside down like a lantern, tepals reflexed, red, yellow at the base filaments green. Black clay. Occasional. Voucher for photograph.

0.5 m high; Geophyte; Notes: Geophyte, 0.5m high. Leaves: whorled, ovate, apex end in tendrils, base broadly tapering. Flower: bright orange/ yellow corolla in six whorled lobes; 6 stamen. Exposure: shade.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub. Branches drooping, brown, covered with a dense velvety indumentum. Leaves large, elongated-ovate, base asymmetric, grey below, green above, velvety, margins finely serrate. Stipules not falcate. Flowers in terminal axillary clusters, bright yellow, 2.2 cm in diameter. In Omuramba.

50 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Low shrub, 50 cm high. Flowers large, yellow, in 3's in leaf axils, stamens in one column. Leaves drooping, alternate, elliptic, base cordate/oblique, grey and velvety below, green above, margins finely serrulate, stipules long, linear, not falcate. Stems drooping, floppy, round, brown, young shoots with a dense brown indumentum. Frequent at the edge of pans.

80 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Spreading shrub with arching branches, 80 cm high. Branches grey, woody, arched. Leaves slightly drooping, curled up, velvety, grey below, green above, lamina elongated-elliptic, base asymmetric, margins finely serrate. Fruit in clusters on lower parts of branches, 1 or 2-lobed, round, green. Frequent. White sand at edge of depression. Limestone.

2 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 2m high. Stem: rounded. Leaves: soft textured, alternate, base assymetric, apex acute. Fruit: pedicel split in 2, each one bearing a single or paired berry, green-yellow.

Climber; Notes: Twining shrub, long branches, very hairy. Flowers 1 cm, light pink.

60 cm high; Suffrutex; Notes: Suffrutex, 60 cm high. Flowers in a terminal raceme, small, deep purple. Leaves compound, trifoliolate, stipules present. Stems erect, green, hairy. Voucher for photograph. Very attractive when in flower. Would make a good garden plant. Scattered but localized, in Omuramba.

Herb; Notes: Procumbent herb. Leaves: cordate on a long petiole. Flowers: orange; calyx and epi-calyx green.

Shrub; Notes: Spreading herbaceous shrub. Flowers light yellow with a maroon centre, style branched. Epicalx lobes many, filiform. Leaves cordate, 5-lobed, dark green, felty. Stems floppy, erect to ascending, light green, felty. Frequent on roadverges and disturbed areas.

Suffrutex; Notes: Spreading shrubby herb, 60 - 70 cm high. Plant covered with irritant hairs. Leaves alternate, large, cordate in outline, 5-lobed, felty. Flowers large, pale yellow with a dark maroon centre. Stems flaccid. Common on roadverge.

1 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 1 m high. Leaves round, margins dentate, petioles 4 cm long, stipules present. Tendril-like growth on both sides of axils. Whole plant covered in soft short hair. Yellow flowers with 5 petals. Dark red centre, pistils and stamens yellow. Not very common.

Shrub; Tree; Notes: Trees or shrubs, 2 - 15 m high. Common at the edge of pans. Young shoots densely covered with fine rusty brown hairs, trunk grey. Leaves feathery, with 4 - 9 pairs of pinnae, leaflets densely hairy below. Pods flat, winged, tapering into a pointed tip, light green, velvety.

Geophyte, 0.30 m above ground. Berries orange to red, in a dense umbel, scape fleshy. Leaves large, oval, held erect and apressed against the scape, shiny, green, undulating, base amplexicaul.

50 cm high; Herb; Notes: Shrubby herb, 50 cm high. Flowers pale orange, perianth rotate. Leaves elongated-oval, grey-green, discolorous. Stems many from the base, unbranched, erect. Fruit present, mature and immature round capsules, enclosed in calyx.

3 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 3 m high. Trunk grey, covered with thick corky bark, longitudinally fissured. Leaves opposite, obovate to round, hairy above and below, 5 veins arising from the base, runnning parallel. Fruit round, hard, up to 5 cm in diameter, green with white speckles. Uncommon. Dry woodland, white loamy sand.

Annual herb, 20 cm high. Stem slender, covered by silvery hair, light green below and dark brown to pink above, stem are runners. Leaves simple, dark green above, light green below, heavily covered by hair. Obovate to ovate leaf shape, with bristle-tip and round base. Roots fibrous system, dark grey to black.

Tree; Notes: Twiner on trees and shrubs. Berries red when ripe.

Herb; Notes: Prostrate annual herb. Flowers yellow, less than 1.5 cm in diameter. Leaves compound, paripinnate, with 7 - 8 pairs of leaflets per leaf, leaflets small, densely hairy below, apex pointed. Fruit spiny, round, segmented. Stems prostrate to ascending, maroon to light brown. White sandy loam, limestone gravel, cleared roadverge. Common.

Herb; Notes: Annual herb. Stems prostrate to ascending, sparsely covered with erect hairs. Flowers yellow, petals up to 1.2 cm long. Leaves compound, paripinnate, with 8 pairs of leaflets per leaf, leaflets densely hairy below. White loamy sand. Frequent.

45 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 45 cm high. Flowers small, pale yellow fading to rusty brown, in dense axillary clusters, calyx hairy. Leaves elongated ovate, felty, dark green, venation below reticulate. Stems herbaceous, felty. Common on road verges.

45 cm high; Herb; Notes: Annual herb, 45 cm high. Flowers in dense axillary clusters, small, pale yellow. Leaves elongated-elliptic, felty. Stems erect. Common in disturbed areas.

40 cm high; Herb; Notes: Annual herb, 40 cm high. Flowers small, pale yellow, in dense axillary clusters. Leaves elongated ovate, felty. Stems erect. White limestone roadverge, cleared.

40 cm high; Herb; Notes: Annual herb, 40 cm high. Flowers small, pale yellow, fading to rusty brown, in axillary clusters. Leaves alternate, elongate-elliptic, hairy. Stems erect, brown at the base, green upwards. Common on roadverge.

1.2 m high; Shrub; Notes: Lax spreading shrub, 1.2 m high. Leaves alternate, large ovate, thinly textured, dark green, margins entire. Stems erect, round, green, sparsely hairy. Berries in dense axillary clusters, sub-sessile, red, fleshy and enclosed in a papery inflated calyx, like a gooseberry. Growing in partial shade under a tree.