Collections made by Azwad Iqbal

Small-leaved perennial shrublet with yellow flowers and flat glandular pods.

Leaves very small; “bikini fruit”; stipules not conspicuous

Large triangular-lanceolate stipules; fruit of 2 segments,one much smaller than the other; leaves largish

Very corky bark, leaves a bit like Rapanaea; fruit small woody, split into 4 valves.

Frequent throughout in dried up state but only this species still green and flowering.

Leaves not hairy; rhachis winged.

Fertile

Small tree in forest understorey with fuzzy imparipinnate leaves and spikes of small red fruit

Flower buds galled

Slender erect to somewhat scrambling herb, upto 60 cm high.

Tall climber into Hagenia trees.

White-flowered virgate shrub

Female shrub in fruit

Male shrub

Very mint aromatic

This appears to be a first record for Malawi but is likely due to under recording.

Spiny tree with larger yellow fruit.

Pedicels and calyx pubescent.

Abundantly naturalised.

Stems hairy, particularly blow the leaves.

In fruit. Leaves broad, hairless, in whorls of three.

Small tree leaves leathery, velvety beneath only.

Slender annual herb with brown wiry stem.

Leafless but on somewhat taller stems (up to 35 cm), probably because the grass has not (yet) been burnt.

Prostrate herb; flowers with black spots on the margins of the petals.

One of the most abundant species on the Nyika. Found almost everywhere even forming extensive colonies of small shrubs stunted by fires out in the open grasslands.

Prostrate mat-forming herb with square stems and opposite, almost round leaves.

Scrambling herb, Dicliptera-like, with white flowers.

Scrambling shrubby, wiry herb; flowers small wine red; pods short, glandular hairy.

Mauve flowered but much larger shrub than AI053

Large erect species with lanceolate finely serrate leaves

Robust herb; capitula numerous, yellow with many small rays.

Capitula yellow with many small rays paler in colour.

Growing as a low suffrutex with a strong woody base in montane grassland.

Epiphytic in fork of Nuxia congesta tree

Annual tufted grass

iNaturalist record

Climber with opposite linear leaves; milky latex present.

Stunted cushion-shaped regrowth well-browsed by bushbuck.

Mostly leafless shrubs to 2.5 m; in flower.

Only sample of flower collected in silica-gel. Plant completely leafless after fire.

Small suffrutex species

Shrub c. 2 m high;, old flowers in clusters; leaves densely velvety hairy.

Spiny shrub with discolorous leaves and orange-red berries

Robust, glandular climbing species; hairs golden yellow

Large shrub-like species with robust, densely red ciliate-hairy stems

Almost erect small shrub, 1 m high; most parts densely greyish-green velvety; leaves almost all 3-foliolate, densely velvety beneath.

This appears to be a first record for the Nyika Plateau and the Northern Division of Malawi.

In flower

In fruit

Liane; stems purplish,fleshy; flowerheads yellow without rays

small flowered, very glandular.

Identical to AI151 except completely glabrous and eglandular; stems purplish

Dense ericoid shrub forming extensive colonies.

Tall virgate herb with large purple flowers

Robust herb; capitula numerous, yellow with many small rays.

In fruit

In flower