Collections made by Bartsch

Annual herb, 0.30 m high. Leaves opposite, elliptic. Flowers funnel-shaped, white with purple markings, single, in terminal leaf axils. Stems round, erect.

Annual herb. Flowers trumpet shaped, white with purple markings. Leaves opposite, thinly textured, dark green.

60 cm high; Herb; Notes: Annual herb, 60 cm high. Stems erect, mostly unbranched, square, hairy. Leaves lanceolate, base lobed, venation below reticulate, with a large brown gland in each leaf axil. Flowers fairly small, tubular, maroon outside, inside pale pink with maroon venation. Plant has a pungent smell. White sandy loam. Occasional.

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.

Herb; Notes: Annual herb, 40 - 60 cm high. Flowers pastel purple with dark purple stripes, in terminal racemes. Leaves alternate, palmate, with 5 - 7 leaflets, leaflets linear, long. Stems erect, green, glandular, round, mostly unbranched. Whole plant sticky glandular, with a pungent smell. Frequent on roadverge.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub, up to 1m tall. Leaves drooping, large, oval with a teat-shaped apex, shiny, green with yellow venation. Stems lax, thin, brown, with milky latex. White sand. Common.

1 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 1 m high. Leaves drooping, large, oval, thinly textured, dark green, shiny, petiole long, slender, yellow. Stems brown, slender, sparsely branched from the base, with milky latex. No flowers or fruit. White sand. Common.

40 cm high; Suffrutex; Notes: Suffrutex, 40 cm high. Leaves large, compound, bipinnately divided, with 10 pairs of leaflets per leaf, leaflets oblong, asymmetric, glabrous except on midvein, midvein displaced, apex notched. Stems short, light green. Pods large, very broad and flattened off, sickle shaped, light green, apex rounded, base tapering. Dry woodlands. White loamy sand. Uncommon.

Shrub; Notes: Low shrubs up to 1 m high, with drooping foliage. Leaves compound, alternate, stipules present, leaflets large, oblong to rhombic, asymmetric, velvety, midrib displaced, light green below. Stems light brown, coppicing shoots velvety. Mixed shrubland and woodland. White sand. Common.

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.

40 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Herbaceous shrub, growing in shade under tree, 40 cm high. Flowers small, pale purple, in a dense axillary spike, peduncles shorter than leaves, 1 - 3 cm long. Leaves opposite, ovate, thin, dark green above, white below. Stems square, hairy, herbaceous.

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.

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.