Records made by Marianne Hochobes

20 cm high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 20m high, with fissured bark. Leaves: compound, opposite, leaflets oblique-asymmetric, bicolourous. Rachis and rachilla red.

Single-stemmed suffrutex. Main stem hairy, green, much branched, with a small hook at each node, lateral shoots perpendicular to stem, unarmed. Leaves needle-like, in dense fascicles on lateral shoots, fairly short, green. Flowers and fruit absent. Filed at WIND as Asparagus cooperi

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.

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.

5 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 5m high. Stem: tomentose. Leaves: compound, leaflets sub-opposite, elliptic, leathery, undersurface tomentose, very short petiolate, petiole tomentose; rachilla thickened where it is connected to main rachis. Fruit: brown woody pod/ legume.

Herb, 0.10 m high. Leaves bicoloured, opposite, cordate, soft, margin hairy.

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.

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.

20 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 20cm high, with yellow flowers on long pedicels.

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.

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.

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.

Climber; Notes: Climber with leaves palmately lobed, margins dentate, soft tendril attached at petiole base. Flowers: light orange, hairy inside.

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.

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.

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

Climber; Notes: Climber, dark green in colour. Leaves: palmately lobed, margins dentate. Fruits: green berries, become orange when ripe.

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.

20 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 20cm high. Flower: bright yellow. Leaves: single, ovate - elliptic, margin wavy.

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.

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

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.

80 cm high; sedge; Notes: Bulbous, 80 cm high sedge. Culms triangular. Inflorescence terminal, subtended by three leafy bracts, branched. Common, in sandy soil in full sun.

3 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 3m high. Leaves: compound, leathery, leaflets opposite ovate, base rounded, apex tapering. Fruit: brown capsule. Browsed by Elephants.

Tree; Notes: Tree, with sub-opposite leaves, ovate tapering to the base, yellowish-green in colour. Petiole thickened.

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.

Grass 40 cm high. Stem flattened, smooth towards the base. Ligule fringe of short hairs. Inflorescence digitate.

0.5 m high; Herb; Suffrutex; Notes: Suffrutex herb, 0.5m high. Stem: yellowish-green. Leaves: compound, assymetric base, bicoloured. Fruit: green.

1 m high; Shrub; Suffrutex; Notes: Suffrutex shrub, up to 1m high. Leaves: compound, whole plant smooth; leaflets sub-sessile, base asymmetric; petiole base thickened, stipitate gland present at the base. Pods green, flattened, broad, constricted between seeds.

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.

5 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, up to 5m high. Leaves: compound, opposite, leaflets sub-opposite arranged, tomentose, subsessile. Fruit: green, legume, leathery, constricted at seeds.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub. Leaves: compound, tomentose, opposite leaflets.

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.

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

30 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 30cm high. Flowers: single, blue in colour.

Herb; Notes: Annual herb. Flowers small, blue with a white centre, one open at a time. Stems many from the base, thin, covered with erect hairs. Leaves sessile. Occasional on roadverge.

Herb; Notes: Procumbent herb. Leaves: linear. Flowers: purple, minute.

Herb; Notes: Procumbent herb. Flowers: purple, clustered, stamen more than 5. Leaves: linear-lanceolate, bicolourous. Stem: red.

1 m high; Geophyte; Notes: Geophyte, about 1m high. Leaves: single. Flowers: yellow, tubular.

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.

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.

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

Herb; Notes: Prostrate herb, soft hairy. Leaves: obovate. Inflorescence: a terminal spike, white flowers.

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.

0.5 m high; Shrub; Notes: Low tomentose shrublet, 0.5m high. Leaves: ovate, tomentose, papery, margin dentate, base asymmetric, petiole short stipulate and tomentose, apex tapering. Fruit: a green berry, axillary, paired.

Shrub; Notes: Spreading shrubs with drooping branches. Leaves alternate, large, ovate, dark green above, whitish tomentose below, base asymmetrically cordate. Branches held horizontally, round, hairy, grey to green. Fruit large round berries, in pairs, lime green, androgynophore extended. White sand. Common.

40 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Lax shrub, 40 cm high.Flowers fairly large, yellow, 2 cm in diameter, in three's in axils, petals recurved. Leaves drooping, large, asymmetric, base oblique cordate, green above, whitish tomentose below. Stems lax, brown. White sand. Frequent.

2 m high; Shrub; Notes: Stiff hairy shrub, 2m high. Leaves: papery, rough surface, margin dentate, base rounded, apex acute, alternate. Flowers: axillary, calyx yellowish, recurved, corolla yellow recurved, many stamens. Stem: round.

15 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 15m high. Leaves: paired and joined at the base where it is connected to the petiole, shiny green

Tree; Notes: Large trees, up to 20 m high. Trunk rusty brown with pieces of black old bark. Leaves bifoliolate, leaflets sickle-shaped, shiny, dark green, leathery. With fruit and buds. Pods half-moon shaped, brown. Occasional.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub with squared stem and tendrils. Inflorescence: terminal flowers white, minute. Leaves: whorled, margins dentate.

2 m high; Climber; Notes: Annual climber, 2 m high. Leaves large, cordate, on a long, stiff petiole, light green below with white netted venation, dark green above. Flowers large, axillary, trumpet shaped, faded, pale purple shaded deep purple towards the centre. Stems twining, light grey, velvety. Capsules immature, obovate, green. Rare.

Climber; Creeper; Notes: Annual climber. Flowers large, trumpet shaped, single, pale purple flushed dark purple towards the centre. Leaves large, cordate, alternate, dark green above, white below with netted venation. Stems floppy. Large underground tuber. White sand. Growing under a tree in shade. Rare. Voucher for photograph.

Annual climber. Inflorescence in clusters. Calyx hairy. Flowers trumpet-shaped, blue, tube white. Leaves heart-shaped, sparsely hairy.

Suffrutex 60 cm high. Stem square. Leaves opposite, ovate. Margin serate, venation prominent on the under surface. Flowers clustered, minute, tubular, purple. Fruits lilac berries.

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.

0.5 m high; Shrub; Suffrutex; Notes: Suffrutex shrub, 0.5m high. Leaves: compound, leaflets opposite, sessile to sub-sessile, tomentose, obovate to elliptic. Inflorescence: a panicle. Flower: opposite, yellow, trumpet-shape.

0.5 m high; Shrub; Notes: Low shrub, 0.5m high. Flowers: deep blue. Leaves: trifoliate, terminal leaflet larger than the other two.

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.

50 cm high; Suffrutex; Notes: Suffrutex, 50cm high. Leaves: trifoliate, leathery, obovate. Flowers: terminal, mauve.

Shrub; Notes: Low shrublet, with leathery, elongated leaves, alternate. Terminal growing tips on leaflets.

0.5 m high; Geophyte; Notes: Single stemmed geophyte, 0.5m high. Leaves: single broadly lanceolate-elliptic. Inflorescence: a panicle with orange flowers. Underground organ: bulb, with brown horizontal stripes.

1 m high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 1m high. Elongated-ovate, leaves are found at the nodes. Inflorescence: terminal raceme, bright orange flowers.

Erect grass, 1 m high. Stem thick, 1 cm in diameter, hairy at the nodes. Inflorescence paniculate, first row of the inflorescence whorled, other alternately arranged. Spikelets purplish.

12 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 12m high, leaves very big, deep lobed at the apex, base auriculate, 4 main veins going out from the base on each leaflet; petiole thickened at the base.

20 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, about 20m high. Leaves: alternate, ovate-elliptic. Fruit: round with long trichomes in the centre.

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.

Many-stemmed shrub up to 3 m high. Leaves palmate, dark green above, light green below. Bark grey. Flowers and fruit absent.

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.

15 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 15cm high. Leaves: spirally arranged, stiff hairy. Flowers: tubular, in bracts, purple in colour.

20 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 20cm high. Flowers: tubular, in leaf axils, bright orange, rosette shaped. Leaves: alternate.

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: 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.

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.

1 m high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 1m high, with a stem armed with reddish trichomes. Flowers: terminal, bright orange, corolla 5-lobed and broadly ovate; calyx yellowish-green, hispid. Leaves: ovate-lanceolate, margin dentate.

Herb; Notes: Tender annual herb. Flowers yellow, tubular, tube long and narrow. Under trees in shade.

30 cm high; Herb; Notes: Annual herb, 30 cm high. Flowers bright orange, tubular, only one open at a time. Leaves sessile. Stems herbaceous, erect, sparsely covered with long red bristles. White sand. Occasional. Voucher for photograph.

Climber; Notes: Climbing herb, with rough surface. Flowers: on a long petiole, bright purple. Leaves: trifoliate, leaflet base palmately lobed; petiole base stipulate.

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.

Herb; Creeper; Notes: Annual prostrate herb. Flowers yellow, corolla rotate, delicate. Leaves lanceolate with a 3-lobed base, green. Stems thin, creeping or twining. Capsules round. White loamy sand. Common on roadverge.

Creeper; Herb; Notes: Annual prostrate herb. Flowers yellow, funnel shaped. Leaves lanceolate, base 3-lobed. Capsules round. White limestone gravel. Common on road verge.

Climber; Creeper; Notes: Annual creeper or climber. Flowers yellow, trumpet shaped, single. Leaves lanceolate, with 3 teeth at the base, green. Stems filiform, prostrate or twining in grasses and herbs. Frequent. White sandy soil.

Tree; Notes: Tree, about 6m high. Leaves: shiny green, armed with 1 hooked and 1 straight thorn.