Records determined by Maggs

Twiner over shrubs and trees. Flowers lilac. Seeds red.

Tree; Notes: Tall tree, plentiful in riverine woodland. Ethnobotanical Voucher : Mukotokoto (Lozi). Ash from thorns crushed, rubbed on baby's stomach to ease cramps; njou (Kwe) -bark+knobs for stomach ache.

Tree; Notes: Single stemmed trees up to 8 meter high. Stem has a typical yellow bark. Common in area.

Notes: Many-stemmed 'forb' up to 50 cm high and 1 m in diameter.

Herb; Notes: Bushy, annual herb, 30 cm high. Stems rigid, articulated, dichotomously branched, green-brown with dense, white, scabrous indumentum. Leaves opposite but often clustered, simple, subsessile; lamina obovate, apex acute, base cuneate, margin entire but sinuate, dull green, thinly textured both surfaces densely pubescent, persistent, up to 30 x 12 mm. Inflorescence solitary, axillary, subsessile, partially hidden by foliar leaves, 7-8 mm in diameter. Florets yellow, inconspicuous. Fruit a spiny achene. (Exotic - from Brazil = a weed in cultivated fields)

Geophyte; Notes: Geophyte, 1 m high when in flower. Leaves arranged in 2 rows, linear, 40 x 10 mm, gradually tapering to fine tip which usually withers, glabrous, clearly ribbed, yellow-green. Inflorescence a densely branched panicle, borne on stout peduncle. Flower large, showy, subtended by foliaceous bracts, 35 mm long. Petals 6, fused, creamy white; tube long: 15 cm, slender: 1.5 - 2mm, often purple tinted, slightly curved; free tips ovate, 30 x 5-6 mm. Anthers 3, 10 mm long. Stigma branches 3, clavate.

10 m high; Tree; Notes: Single-stemmed tree 10 m high. Tree covered with green pods.

Notes: Solid leaves up to 35cm long, margin toothed, speckled or striped. The inflorescence is 1,2m high and the flowers are red. The plants are distributed over the whole area in association with Colophospermum mopane.

Scrambler. Fruit: red grape bunch.

Herb; Notes: Perennial herb, tufted, 30 cm high. Leaves sessile, bright green, lanceolate-elliptic, apex acute, base sheathed and ciliate. Inflorescence terminal, whorled panicle, unsheathed. Sepals 3, green, broadly ovate. Petals 3 (1 much reduced), orange-yellow.

6 m high; Tree; Notes: Single-stemmed trees, 6 m high. Leaves underneath velvety-brown. Berries purple.

Annual herb. Stems brittle, with dense, white, curly indumentum. Leaves ovate, apex tapering and acute, ca. 40 x 20 mm, yellow-green, venation prominent, with dense, white, adpressed indumentum. Inflorescence axillary raceme. Flowers large, subsessile, up to 20 mm long and 18 mm long, petals cream-coloured, deep purple speckled in throat.

Tree; Notes: Tall tree, 6 m high. Stems dark brown; branches knobbly due to leaf base scars, floccose indumentum; young branchlets bright green, rigid, terete with dense white short velutinous indumentum. Leaves opposite to subopposite, simple; petiole slender, almost geniculate, bright green to brown-tinted, adaxially grooved, twisted, densely velutinous; stipule minutely deltoid, brown membranous, caducous; lamina ovate to circular, apex attenuate to rounded to notched, base truncate to cuneate to rounded, margin entire but sinuate, 40-60 x 35-40 mm, thinly textured, adaxially glossy green, glabrous, abax. grey-green, glabrous, midrib prominent with lateral veins merging into margin. Flowers past. Fruit an ovoid-elongate berry, apiculate (style remains), 10 x 5 mm, green glaucous, glabrous, cupular remains of perianth at base, axillary (1/axil). Edible = muzinzila (Lozi)

Tree; Notes: Lush, medium sized tree. Fruits eaten; chinjere (KWE) fruits eaten fresh or made into cooldrink. Ethnobotanical Voucher specimen: Muzinzila (Lozi). Fairly abundant.

Tree; Notes: Medium tree, 3-5 m high; bark grey, rough. Leaves imparipinnate; leaflets 5-7, alternate, ovate, 35 x 17 mm, grey-green, densely pubescent; petiole with dense yellowish indumentum. Flowers showy, up to 40 mm in diameter, in much-branched, sparse sprays. Petal 1, white. Mixed semi-deciduous woodland after a burn.

Tree; Notes: Small, densely-branched tree, ca. 2 m high. Bark rust-grey; twigs zigzag, densely pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate; petiole yellow-green, 4-7 mm long, perpendicular to axis, pubescent; lamina obovate, apex rounded to slightly acute, base cuneate, margin entire and involute, 20-80 x 12-60 mm, adaxially glossy dark green, glabrous; abaxially grey-green, midrib prominent, very minutely velutinous. Flowers in axillary clusters, minute 3 mm in diameter, green-yellow, separate androecium and gynoecium. Sepals 5, free, persistent.

Shrub; Notes: Twiner/shrub forming a dense thicket. Fruit red. Along the water edge.

Climber; Notes: In shrubby riverine vegetation.

Creeper; Notes: Annual, straggling creeper. Stems limp, fresh green, minutely hirsute, grooved. Leaves opposite; lamina trifoliolate; leaflets fresh green, margin incised, sparsely hirsute. Inflorescence axillary corymb with 2 coiled tendrils at apex of penduncle, 3-flowered. Flowers creamy white, 4 mm in diameter. Fruit an inflated, membranous capsule, cordiform, 15 mm long.

Notes: Waterplant in Lake Liambezi.

Herb; Notes: Small, bushy, annual herb, up to 30 cm high. Stem basally slightly woody, densely branched, dark brown to green-brown with dense white velutinous indumentum. Leaves alternate, paripinnate; stipules paired, linear, acutely tapering, 6 mm long; petiole short, 5 mm long, stout, densely pubescent; rhachis 2 - 6 cm long, straight to ascending apically bearing 40 pinna pairs; lamina lanceolate in broad outline; pinna somewhat falcate, 4-5 x 1-1.5 mm, apex apiculate, base oblique, folded closed along midrib, yellow-green with dense, short, white, curly indumentum. Flowers solitary, axillary, 7 mm in diameter; petals 5, free, pale yellow, obovate; sepals 5, greenish, densely pubescent. Pod flattened, elongate, apiculate, up to 30 x 4 x 1mm.

Herb; Notes: Small bushy annual herb, up to 30 cm high. Stem basally slightly woody, densely branched, dark brown to green-brown with dense white velutinous indumentum. Leaves alternate, paripinnate; stipules paired, linear, acutely tapering, 6 mm long; petiole short, 5 mm long, stout, densely pubescent; rachis 2-6 cm long, straight to ascending apical bearing 40 pinna pairs; lamina lanceolate in broad outline; pinna somewhat falcate, 4-5 x 1-1.5 mm, apex apiculate, base oblique, folded closed along midrib, yellow-green with dense, short, white, curly indumentum. Flowers solitary, axillary, 7 mm in diameter; petals 5, free, pale yellow, obovate; sepals 5, greenish, densely pubescent. Pod flattened, elongate, apiculate, up to 30 x 4 x 1 mm.

Herb; Notes: Tall, lanky annual herb, 1 - 1.5 m high. Stem olive-green, ribbed, hirsute. Leaves imparipinnate; leaflets 4 x 1 mm, slightly falcate, 30 - 40 pairs. Flowers axillary, solitary, 12 mm in diameter, petals golden yellow. Pod ca. 30 x 1.5 mm, densely pubescent, beaked.

Graminoid; Notes: Tall, robust perennial grass, plentiful on edge of flood-plain. Flowering past. Ethnobotanical specimen: Sivamba (Lozi): roots placed in water (and roots of mupanda) given to cattle to cure stomach cramps. Corr. nom.: EK 23.06.2003.

Herb; Notes: Erect, lanky, annual herb, up to m high. Stems rigid, terete yet deeply fluted, yellow-green, unbranched, with dense, short, straight white indumentum, glandular. Leaves alternate, 5-palmatisect; petiole short, up to 2 mm long, yellow, densely pubescent; lamina circular in broad outline, up to 2 x 2 cm; pinnae unequal, narrowly obovate to oblanceolate, apex rounded to minutely apiculate, base cuneate, 4-20 x 0.5-2 mm dull olive-green, margin entire to revolute, dense white hispidullous indumentum on both surfaces, glandular. Flowers solitary but concentrated terminally, axillary, strongly descending, showy. Petals 5, free, posterior 2 much enlarged, obovate and narrowly clawed, pale pink with yellow and deep purple markings, 16 mm long. Stamens 10, well exerted. Fruit a capsule, falcate, 65-120 x 2-3 mm, apiculate, slightly flattened, green, pubescent, dehiscing along 2 seams. Seeds globose, dark-brown to black, 2 mm in diameter, verrucose.

Herb; Notes: Perennial semi succulent herb, semi-prostrate, 40 cm high. Flowers purple. Common.

Tree; Notes: Tall tree, 8 m high. Bark dark grey, deeply fluted; young branchlets rust-brown, glabrous. Leaves alternate, bilobed; leaflets somewhat folded, drooping, elongate deltoid - falcate in outline dull olive-green, glabrous, dotted with pellucid glands, 60 x 20 mm, third leaflet rudimentary, base oblique, apex acute, margin entire, main vein from base. Flowers in short axillary racemes, pale-green, small: 6 - 8 mm in diameter; petals lacking; sepals broadly ovate; stamens numerous, well exerted. Fruit a pod, flattened, reniform, coriaceous, red-coloured, glandular and viscous, aromatic = resinous. Seed flattened, glandular.

Tree; Notes: Tall tree, plentiful. Ethnobotanical Voucher Specimen: Mopani (Lozi) wood for building. Bark used for twine. Cataepillars (mahangu) cleaned, dried in the sun, fried and eaten as relish.

3 m high; Tree; Notes: Small, rounded tree, 3 m high. Bark grey-brown; branchlets opposite, perpendicular to axial branch. Leaves simple, arrangement varies from sub-opposite to fascicled; petiole smooth, yellow-green; lamina ovate, ca. 50 x 25 mm, apex acute to apiculate, base cuneate, margin entire but sinuate, yellow-green, glossy, slightly viscose, venation prominent, thinly textured. Flowers insignificant, small, 4-6 mm long in dense, axillary, spicate racemes 20-40 mm long; buds ca. 1.5 mm in diameter; calyx cupular, 4-lobed; petals absent; stamens 8 (4 well-exerted; 4 adnate to calyx lobes); style initially well-exerted; ovary cylindrical, inferior.

Tree; Notes: Small tree, 6 m high. Bark dark grey, somewhat rough. Leaves: opposite, lamina elliptic, 80 x 35 mm, glossy, glabrous, fresh green, venation prominent, margin entire, apex apiculate, base rounded. Flowers past. Fruit a 4 - winged samara, 25 x 20 mm, dark rusty brown, shiny.

Tree; Notes: Medium to tall tree, plentiful.

15 m high; Tree; Notes: Single-stemmed tree, 15 m high.

Tree; Notes: Tall tree, plentiful. Ethnobotanical voucher specimen. Muzwili (Lozi), Muvimba (Subiya). Wood for poles (better than mopane), also for carving and fuel.

Tree; Notes: Medium tree. Leaves broadly ovate-elliptic, coriaceous, apex apiculate, densely pubescent but becoming glabrescent adaxially, 70 x 45 mm, dark green, venation prominent. Flowers yellow; spikes 50 mm long. Mixed semi-deciduous woodland after a burn.

Shrub; Notes: Straggling shrub, 1-2.5 m high. Bark pale grey; branchlets pubescent to pulverulent. Leaves largely absent during flowering and or fruiting stages. Flowers past. Fruit a 5-winged samara, ovoid in broad outline, ca. 30 x 20 mm, pale green to cream to brown when mature, succulent becoming papery; central portion 30 x 10 mm; wing ca. 7.5 mm wide.

3 m high; Scrambler; Notes: Scrambler, 3 m high. Flowers white.

Shrub; Notes: Straggling shrub. Ethnobotanical Voucher Specimen: Sirutombola Lozi) - no known uses.

3.5 m high; Tree; Notes: Single-stemmed tree. 3.5 m high.

5 m high; Tree; Notes: Single-stemmed tree, 5 m high.

Notes: Semi-prostrate annual. Flowers blue. Corr. nom.: SB 8.2003.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub. Bark greyish. Branchlets spine-tipped. Leaves 3 - foliolate. Leaflets obovate, terminally 30 x 22 mm, laterally smaller, finely velutinous, apex rounded, margin crenate.

Notes: Twiner in Ximenia americana. Fruits red when ripe.

0.5 m high; Herb; Notes: Bushy herb, m high. Stems basally somewhat woody, densely branched, yellow-green to brown with dense long white hirsute indumentum young branchlets velutinous. Leaves alternate, trifoliolate; petiole slender, 10 - 45 mm long, rigid, acute, yellowish, densely pubescent; stipules deltoid, up to 15 x 3 mm, green, foliaceous, caducous; lamina circular in broad outline; pinnae shortly stalked ( 1-1.5 mm long), unequal, 5-60 x 1-10 mm, medianally larger, narrowly ovate, apex rounded to delicately apiculate, base cuneate to obliquely rounded, margin entire, ciliate, dull green, adaxially glabrous, abaxially with long white sericeous indumentum concentrated along prominent midrib. Inflorescence an axillary raceme, 3-20 cm long. Flowers large, almost 2 cm long, slightly pendulous. Petals golden yellow, standard purple tinted. Pod inflated, up to 35 x 15 cm, greenish with purple sutures thickened and prominent, shortly apiculate glabrous. Seeds numerous, in single dorsal row, rectangular, brown, 1 mm long, verrucose.

Herb; Notes: Annual herb, 30 cm when in flower. Stem erect, slender, green to brown, terete with dense white, short, adpressed indumentum, tends to branch rigidly near apex to form bushy herb. Leaves alternate, trifoliolate; stipules paired, minute, 2 mm long linear; petiole 1, 5 cm long, slender but fairly rigid supporting leaf in acute position; pinna narrowly ovate to lanceolate, apex minutely apiculate, base rounded, margin entire, up to 30 x 4 mm, dull green, (median pinna slightly larger than lateral pair) abaxially sparsely pubescent with prominant midrib, adaxially glabrous. Flowers in axillary racemes, small, cm in length, slightly pendulous. Petals dull yellow to apricot. Sepals minute, dull green, densley pubescent, persistent. Fruit: a pod, short, ovoid 7 x 3 mm, densly pubescent, style apically persistent. Seeds reniform.

Herb; Notes: Annual herb, 30 cm when in flower. Stem erect, slender, terete, green to brown-tinted with dense white, short, adpressed indumentum, tends to branch rigidly near apex to form bushy herb. Leaves alternate, trifoliolate; stipules paired, minute, 2 mm long, linear; petiole 1.5 cm long, slender but fairly rigid supporting leaf in acute position; pinna narrowly ovate to lanceolate, apex minutely apiculate, base rounded, margin entire, up to 30 x 4 mm, dull green, (median pinna slightly larger than lateral pair) abaxially sparsely pubescent with prominent midrib, adaxially glabrous. Flowers in axillary racemes, small, cm in length, slightly pendulous. Petals dull yellow to apricot. Sepals minute, dull green, densely pubescent, persistent. Fruit: a pod, short, ovoid, 7 x 3 mm, densely pubescent, style apically persistent. Seeds reniform.

Tree; Notes: Small, bushy tree, 3-4 m high. Bark greyish; branchlets with prominent lenticels. Leaves simple, alternate; petioles ca. 25 mm long, curved with dense white stellate indumentum; lamina cordiform, ca. 50 x 30 mm, apex acute, base cordate with pair of stalked glands, margin dentate, adaxially dark green, sparsely stellate, abaxially silver with dense silvery stellate indumentum. Flowers in axillary, spicate racemes of length ca. 30 mm, insignificant, ca. 5 mm in diameter, globose; pedicel 3-6 mm long, slender; sepals 5, free, green, adaxially concave; petals slightly exerted beyond calyx, white-green, pubescent; stamens numerous, curled, exerted.

Tree; Notes: Medium-sized tree in riverine woodland. Ethnobotanical Voucher specimen. Mutuwatuwa (Lozi): roots used in various remedies, also fish poison.

200 mm high; Herb; Notes: Annual herb, hemiparasitic on grass roots, 200 mm high. Leaves sessile, lanceolate, irregularly and minutely toothed, glabrous, green but becoming black when dry. Flowers solitary, large, showy, 3.5 cm in diameter, lilac-pink; sepals persistent.

Herb; Notes: Annual herb, 30 cm when in flower; hemiparasite on grass roots. Stems erect, green, slender, terete, glabrous. Leaves opposite, simple, subsessile; lamina lanceolate, apex acute, base cuneate, margin irregularly dentate at base (certain teeth appear as filiform protuberances especially in older leaves), dull olive-green, up to 80 x 7 mm, glabrous on both surfaces. Flowers in axillary/terminal racemes with paired arrangement, large, showy, up to 30 mm in diameter; peduncles 35-50 cm long. Petals 5, fused ( posterior 2; anterior 3), purple-pink but white-cream to yellow in throat, tube abaxially densely pubescent, glandular. Sepals 5, fused, green, glabrous, 8 mm long, persistent and enlarging somewhat around fruit. Pedicel 1 cm long, slender. Fruit bilocular capsule, dehiscing apically; dark brown.

Herb; Notes: Annual herb, 30 cm when in flower; hemiparasite on grass roots. Stems erect, green, slender, terete, glabrous. Leaves opposite, simple, subsessile; lamina lanceolate, apex acute, base cuneate, margin irregularly dentate at base (certain teeth appear as filiform protrubrances especially in older leaves), dull olive-green, up to 80 x 7 mm, glabrous on both surfaces. Flowers in axillary/terminal racemes with paired arrangement, large, showy, up to 30 mm in diameter; penduncles 35-50 cm long. Petals 5, fused (posterior 2; anterior 3), purple-pink but white-cream to yellow in throat, tube abaxially densely pubescent, glandular. Sepals 5, fused, green, glabrous, 8 mm long, persistent and enlarging somewhat around fruit. Pedicel 1 cm long, slender. Fruit bilocular capsule, dehiscing apically, dark brown.

Shrub; Notes: Straggling shrub, 2 m high. Stems much branched, armed; bark pale. Leaves clustered, imparipinnate. Leaflets obcordiform to obovate, dark green, glabrous, 14 x 8 mm.

2.5 m high; Shrub; Notes: Slender, many-stemmed shrubs, 2.5 m high.

Notes: Twiner in undergrowth. Leaves cordiform, thin, glabrous. Sterile material - ethnobotanical voucher specimen. Dinga (Kwe) = tuber eaten once bark is removed.

15 m high; Tree; Notes: Only a few trees. Also the only place where I found them. Single-stemmed tree, 15 m high. Leaves hard and glossy.

Tree; Notes: Medium tree, 4-5 m high. Branchlets reddish brown, grooved. Leaves opposite; lamina elliptic to broadly ovate, up to 70 x 45 mm, bright green, glabrous, margin entire, broadly tapering. Inflorescence a terminal scorpioid cyme. Flowers creamy white, 8 mm in diameter, pentamerous, sweet-smelling. Mixed semi-deciduous woodland after a burn.

Creeper; Notes: Woody creeper. Young branchlets with dense, short, white, woolly indumentum, terete to angled and ribbed. Leaves spirally arranged, simple; Petiole stout, adaxially grooved, densely pulverulent, up to 10 mm long; lamina ovate to cordiform, ca. 60 x 45 mm, broadly tapering to acute apex, base rounded to cordate (narrowly curate down petiole), adaxially olive green, minutely / sparsely pubescent; adaxially silvery, venation prominent, densely pubescent. Capitula in scorpioid cymes ( = corymbs), ellipsoid, ca. 15 x 8 mm, homogenous, disc florets 10 - 12 mm long, 5 - merous. Stigma 5-branched, well-exerted. Pappus prominent, white, straight, about 10 mm long. Involucral bract 4-6-whorled, lanceolate-ovate, green, foliaceous with white, arachnoid pubescence. Growing in forest island on termite mound.

Herb; Notes: All annual herb, in moist conditions between reeds. Ethnobotanical Voucher Specimen: Mozweze (Lozi) - indication of good soil to plant mealies, infused in water and given to cows to increase milk production.

subshrub; Notes: Sub-shrub, up to m, with extensive subterranean root-stock. Stems with dense yellow pubescence. Leaves trifoliolate; leaflets elliptic-obovate, grey-green, 35 x 10 mm. adaxially with adpressed silvery hairs, puckered, abaxially venation prominent; stipule ovate, membranous, 6 x 3 mm. Flowers 12 mm long, in racemes, yellowish with maroon markings. Pods ovoid, 15 x 6 mm, densely sericeous.

subshrub; Notes: Erect, bushy subshrub. Leaves ovate, apices gradually tapering, tomentose. Ethnobotanical Voucher Specimen: ninaghovo (Kwe) - leaves cooked and eaten like spinach.

Shrub; Notes: Straggling shrub; bark pale grey; branchlets green and densely pubescent. Leaves ovate, thin, olive-green, 2 - 4 cm long, irregularly dentate, adaxially glabrous, abaxially densely pubescent; stipules linear, 1 - 2 mm long, caducous. Inflorescence axillary panicle. Flowers minute, 1.5 - 2 mm in diameter; petals 4, greenish.

Tree; Notes: Small to medium-sized tree. Ethnobotanical Voucher Specimen: matokola (Lozi): used to exorcize ghosts. Wood not used as fuel cause it cause bad luck; tshutshora (Kwe).

Herb; Notes: Perennial herb with underground rhizomes. Forming dense stand.

Annual herb, up to 0.60 m when in flower. Stems tend to prostrate but apically always erect, green, ? terete with dense white adpressed indumentum. Leaves alternate, simple (occasionally clustered); lamina ovate to obovate, apex acute, base cuneate, margin entire, ? 40 x 10 mm, dull grey-green with dense white adpressed indumentum on both surfaces but especially abaxially, midrib abaxially prominent; petiole stout, rigid, up to 1 cm long, very densely pubescent. Flowers minute, up to 2 mm in diameter, in axillary 2-forked spikes tightly coiled but unfurling with maturity, subtended by persistent, foliaceous bracts. Petals 5, fused, creamy white. Sepals 5, free, minute, densely pubescent, persistent. Fruit: achene, globose, ? 1.5 mm in diameter, densely pubescent.

Herb; Notes: Prostrate herb. Stems trailing, limp, slender, dark green but masked by dense, long, white, sericeous indumentum. Leaves alternate, simple; petiole 1-2 mm long, densely sericeous; lamina ovate, apex minutely apiculate, base rounded, margin entire, grey-green, both surfaces with dense silvery adpressed hairs. Flowers solitary, axillary, campanulate, small, 5-6 mm in diameter. Petals 5, fused, blue. Sepals 5, free, ovate, 2 x 1 mm, densely pubescent, persistent. Fruit a capsule, globose, 5-sutured, white and brittle, dehiscent. Seeds numerous, yellow-brown, deltoid to irregular.

Notes: Tall tree, 8-10 m high. Leaves narrowly ovate, glossy, glabrous. Figs small, plentiful, clustered on branches. Corr. nom.: S. Rgheimer 5.2007.

Shrub; Notes: Densely branched undergrowth shrub, 1 - 2 m high. Branchlets rigid, grey-brown. Leaves obovate, 22 x 12 mm, bright green to grey-green, glabrous, apex truncate. Flowers past. Fruit a berry, globose, axillary, solitary on long slender stalk.

Tree; Notes: Small, bushy tree, up to 4 m high. Bark greyish; young twigs with fine, pubescent indumentum. Leaves alternate, simple; petiole 5-8 mm long, usually curved, yellow-green, pubescent; lamina broadly obovate, apex rounded to truncate, base rounded, margin entire, adaxially bright green, sparsely pubescent to glabrate, abaxially grey-green with dense downy pubescence, venation prominent. Flowers past. Fruits monocarpic, each lobe finger-like, 1-seeded, bright red when ripe, tart but pleasant in taste.

Tree; Notes: Slender shrub or twiner sometimes forming a thicket. Fruits borne in clusters.

Notes: Initially yellow with maroon tips, changing to maroon. Scrambler. Corr. nom.: SB 8.2003.

Notes: Twiner in Ximenia americana. Flowers initially yellow with reddish brown tinge and gradually change to a rusty brown. Corr. nom.: SB 8.2003.

Shrub; Notes: Shrublets, 1.2 m high. Much branched. Flower: yellow. Common. Fruit: berries.

Shrub; Notes: Straggling shrub, 3 m high. Bark dark grey, peeling; branchlets deep red-brown. Leaves elliptic, 60 x 30 mm, margin denticulate, base slightly oblique; adaxially dull green, with minute stellate hairs; abaxially silvery green, densely velutinous. Fruit 1 or 2-lobed, green-brown.

2.4 m high; Shrub; Notes: Slender, many stemmed shrubs, 2.4 m high. Flowers yellow. Stems square.

Shrub; Notes: Small spreading shrub, 1 m high. Bark red-brown. Leaves elliptic ovate, margin dentate, 30 x 15 mm, olive green, dense stellate indumentum on both surfaces. Flowers past. Fruit a berry, globose to 2 - lobed, yellow-brown, with dense stellate indumentum.

Tree; Notes: Small bushy tree, up to 3 m high. Bark grey-brown; young twigs with brown stellate indumentum. Leaves alternate, simple; petiole stout, up to 1 cm long with dense white stellate indumentum; lamina broadly elliptic, apex attenuate, base rounded to cuneate, margin sharply but irregularly dentate, bright green, adaxially puckered with fine intercostal stellate indumentum, abaxially prominently veined, 100 x 50 mm; stipule lanceolate, 1 cm long, densely pubescent, persistent. Flower in axillary clusters, showy, 3.5-4 cm in diameter. Pedicels extremely stout. Petals 5, white, crinkly. Sepals 5, fleshy, adaxially white, abaxially green, prominent, recurved. Stamens numerous, in broad central column, 12 mm high. Fruit 4-lobed berry.

Notes: Slender shrub, 2.5 m high. Flowers white.

Herb; Notes: Lanky annual herb. Stems ribbed, densely hirsute. Leaves 5-palmate; pinna ovate to elliptic, margin dentate, sparsely hirsute especially along venation; petiole 25-40 mm long, slender. Flower solitary, axillary, 60 mm in diameter, yellow with dark purple centre. Epicalyx > 5. Mixed semi-deciduous woodland after a burn.

25 cm high; Herb; Notes: Annual herbs, 25 cm high. Flowers yellow.

Climber; Notes: Twiner in trees. Fruit 3 - lobbed.

Climber; Notes: Twiner in trees and shrubs. Fruit 3 - locular.

Creeper; Notes: Creeper. Stems basally woody with conspicuous, white, elongate lenticels; young branchlets flaccid, twining, dark green with very dense short white indumentum, terete. Leaves opposite, trifoliolate; petiole slender, curved, 1 cm long, further characters as for stem; petiolule up to 8 mm long, laterally, 17 mm terminally; pinna ovate, apex apiculate, base rounded, margin entire, terminally 40-60 x 17-48 mm, laterally 20-35 x 17-28 mm, dark dull green with dense white indumentum, 3-5- veined from base. Flowers in axillary/terminal panicles, tubular, showy, 25 mm long, 20 mm in diameter, fragrant; peduncle 25 - 40 mm long, pedicels 2 - 3 mm long. Petals 8, fused, white. Sepals 4, fused, green, 2 mm long, persistent. Fruit 2-lobed berry with clear constriction between the two, each lobe globose, 6 mm in diameter, green, glabrous, smooth, fleshy.

Notes: Only a few trees. Also the only place where I found them.

Herb; Notes: Annual herb, 40 - 50 cm high when in flower. Stems slender, green, terete, erect, unbranched, glabrous. Leaves opposite but mostly clustered, simple, sessile; lamina linear to narrowly lanceolate, apex acute, base cuneate, margin entire but slightly revolute, up to 40 x 2 mm, dull green, glabrous on both surfaces. Flowers small, in terminal panicles (= dichasia tending to corymb-like arrangement); peduncle 10 - 20 cm long, characters as for stem. Petals 4, pale brown, fused to form basal tube with free apices, 3 mm in diameter, 15 mm long. Sepals 4, fused, minute. Pedicel 5 - 10 mm long to lacking (normally 1 flower of dichasium stalked, the other sessile). Fruit a capsule, globose, 2-lobed, 2 x 3 mm with 4 apical horns, dehiscing along apical suture.

Herb; Notes: Habitat: banks of channel. Annual herb, 40 cm high. Leaves 3 - 4 cm long, glossy and glutinous. Stipules 5 mm long, interpetiolar, bifurnicate. Flowering branch well-extended, foliaceous near base, dichasium. Flowers 1-1.5 cm long, tubular; tube brown-red; petals 4, free tips extended, cream with central brown band. Capsule flattened - globular with 4 apical horns, 4 lobed, 5 x 8 mm.

6 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree 6 m high, much-branched. Ripe fruit purple.

Tree; Notes: Small, slender tree, 5 m high. Bark rough. Leaves imparipinnate; obovate in broad outline; leaflets 5/7, ovate to circular, up to 80 x 70 mm, olive-green, glabrous to finely pubescent. Fruit a capsule, slender, elongate, dark brown with white lenticels.

Notes: Twining annual. Stem limp, slender, glabrous. Lamina lanceolate - linear, up to 40 x 1.5 mm, apex apiculate, base hastate, margin entire but dentate at base. Flowers solitary by reduction, axillary, pendulous, bell-shaped, 15 mm long; petals yellow. Mixed semi-deciduous woodland after a burn.

Tree; Notes: Slender tree, 2 m high. Leaves imparipinnate, leaflets obovate, adaxial bright green and glabrous, abaxial densely sericous. Inflorescence a terminal raceme. Flowers purple, pendulous; standard pubescent.

Herb; Notes: Annual/biennial herbs, up to 1.5 m high. Flowers yellow.

Hydrophyte; Notes: Waterlily growing in Lake Liambezi. Flowers yellow.

Notes: Baikaia woodland. Sandy soil type. Used traditionally as perfume. Mbukushu 'dingambe'.

Tree; Notes: Single-stemmed tree, up to 8 m high. Fruits green. Common.

Tree; Notes: Tall tree, 8 m high. Stems grey-brown. Branches mostly descending, young branchlets with dense rust-brown velutinous indumentum. Leaves alternate, paripinnate-bipinnately decompound. Petiole slender, abaxially grooved, bulbous at base, yellowish, densely pubescent, 20 - 45 mm long; rhachis as for petiole, 60 mm long, bearing mostly 4 pairs of rhachillae. Rhachillae as for petiole, 60 - 70 mm long, slightly curved to straight, bearing 12 - 22 pinnule pairs, extending beyond apical pair. Lamina ovate in broad outline, 130 x 70 mm. Pinna narrowly ovate in broad outline, slightly falcate, 70 x 12 mm. Pinnules paired, ovate, apex minutely acuminate, base rounded, slightly oblique, shortly stalked, 7 x 3 mm, margin entire grey-green, abaxially darker, smooth, glabrous, abaxially minutely pubescent, midrib conspicuous. Flowers past. Fruit a pod, flattened, ellipsoid, 80 x 20 mm, yellow-green with dense ferruginous indumentum, canaliculate, often pendulous.

Notes: Mopane woodland. Tall tree, 10 m high. Leaves bipinnate. Flowers yellow, profuse. Ethnobotanical oucher specimen: musilo (Lozi, Subiya) - no known uses.

Tree; Notes: Tall tree, 8 m high. Bark pale grey. Branchlets greyish, pubescent. Leaves 3-foliolate - upper pinna 140 x 50 mm; lateral pinna 60 x 20 mm, grey-green, abaxially velutinous. Inflorescence a panicle, drooping, 220 x 100 mm. Flowers pendulous, 1 cm long; sepals fused, grey, velutinous; petals blue-lilac.

Tree; Notes: Tall tree, ca. 8 m high. Bark grey, flaky. Leaves alternate, 5-pinnatisect; stipules linear, paired, membranous, pale green to brown, 6 mm long, petiole sturdy, perpendicular to branchlet, terete to adaxially flattened, velutinous, basally pronouncedly swollen; rachis as for petiole; petiolule up to 4 mm long, sturdy, terminally articulated; pinna narrowly ovate, 20-140 x 15-50 mm, terminally largest, discoloured, venation prominent giving puckered appearance. Flowers in pendulous much-branched panicle (ca. 20 cm long), 8-10 mm long. Petals lilac.

Notes: Tall tree. Ethnobotanical specimen. Common name: tcho (Kwe), mupanda (Lozi) - wood-peg, to mark site of new home. Leaves placed in boiling water to increase milk production in cows.

Herb; Notes: Perennial, semi-prostrate herbs. Flowers white. Common along the edge of water.

Graminoid; Notes: Deep sand soil. Plant features grass.

50 cm high; Herb; Notes: Perennial herb, 50 cm high. Flowers purple.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 1.5 m high. Branches green-brown with white floccose indumentum especially conspicuous on young branchlets which also bear dense, pale brown, stellate indumentum and scattered, straight prickles. Leaves spirally arranged, simple; petiole slender, adaxially grooved, yellow-green, 10-20 mm long, curved, densely pubescent; lamina ovate, apex acute, base rounded but oblique, margin entire, sinuate, 30-55 x 12-20 mm, dull yellowish olive-green with dense brownish, stellate hairs on both surfaces tending to become adaxially glabrate, venation abaxially prominent, yellowish, furry to the touch. Flowers past. Fruit a berry in axillary, scorpioid cymes, usually 2-3/cluster, globose, fleshy, up to 1 cm in diameter, shiny, orange-red when mature, poisonous. Sepals 4, fused, persistent at fruit base. Seeds many, cream-coloured, flattened, discoidal, 2-3 mm in diameter, embedded in fleshy pulp.

Parasite; Notes: Hemiparasite on grass roots, 30 cm high. Stem erect, much-branched with hirsute indumentum. Leaves linear, 12 x 2.5 mm, densely hirsute, sessile. Flowers solitary, axillary, bilabiate; petals mauve. Sepals 5, free, 6 x 1 mm, persistent.

25 cm high; Parasite; Notes: Root parasite. 25 cm high. Flowers mauve.

2.5 m high; Tree; Notes: Single-stemmed tree, 2.5 m high. Very sparse thorny (thorns in pairs).

Tree; Notes: Medium compact tree, 6 m high. Bark smooth, greyish; with knobby dwarf shoots. Leaves elliptic - obovate, 50 x 25 mm, abaxially dark shiny green, coriaceous, abaxially Sparsely velutinous, 3 - veined at base.

Shrub; Notes: Straggling shrub. Leaves ovate, paired. Ethnobotanical Voucher specimen. Lozi: 'Mulombelombe'. Fruits used for washing.

Tree; Notes: Single-stemmed trees 5-6 m high. Leaves glossy leathery. Ripe fruits reddish-purple.

Notes: Parasite on Maytenus species.

6 m high; Tree; Notes: Single-stemmed tree, 6 m high. Leaves greyish. Pods pale pink.

Tree; Notes: Single-stemmed tree, 3.5 - 7 m high. Leaves greyish-green. Quite common.

Tree; Notes: Tall tree, plentiful. Ethnobotanical Voucher specimen. Muhono (Lozi), wood for building, also yokes & axce-handles. Root bark used to make twine, boiled with palm leaves to stain. Tcherc (Kwe) = bark of roots & branches for twine.

Herb; Notes: Trailing herb; stems limp, apically tendrilled, densely hirsute. Leaves ovate, gradually tapering to acute apex, base cordate, dark green, venation prominent, margin dentate; petiole 2-4 cm long. Inflorescence axillary, spicate. Flowers minute, sexes separate. Mixed semi-deciduous woodland after a burn.

20 cm high; Herb; Notes: Slender annual herb, 20 cm high. Flowers yellow.

Shrub; Notes: Densely branched, tall shrub, 2 m high. Bark grey to reddish-brown, young branchlets with dense, yellow-brown, hispidellous indumentum. Leaves opposite, simple; petiole short, 2 - 3 mm long, sturdy, dense, pubescent; stipule interpetiolar, narrowly lanceolate, 80 - 115 x 35 - 60 mm, apex acute, occasionally rounded, base cuneate, margin entire, ciliate, adaxially dark green, pubescent to glabrate, abaxially olive green with dark green venation, extremely dense hispidellous indumentum. Fruit globose, axillary, normally solitary, hard, apically scarred, 1.5 - 2 cm in diameter. In Terminalia woodland.

Tree; Notes: Small tree. Leaves elliptic, densely tomentose. Stipules deltoid with long tapering apices, about 1 cm long. Fruits eaten.

3 m high; Tree; Notes: Slender small single-stemmed trees, 3.0 m high. Fruits 1.5 - 2 cm in diameter.

Tree; Notes: Small tree, about 3 m high. Bark grey-brown; branchlets with grey, pulverulent indumentum. Leaves dark dull green, ovate, discoloured, about 60 x 25 mm, apex acute, margin minutely toothed, venation prominent, fine white pulverulent indumentum. Inflorescence axillary / terminal corymbs. Flowering past. Seed 3-4 mm long; pappus bristle-like.

Notes: Creeper in reeds. Flowers yellow.

Shrub; Notes: Densely bushy shrub, 1.25 m high. Leaves dark dull green, velutinous, ovate, midrib prominent, mostly folded, apex notched, 40 x 20 mm. Viciously armed. Fruits fleshy, drupaceous, brilliant red when ripe, ovoid, 30 x 15 - 20 mm, extremely sour.

8 m high; Tree; Notes: Single-stemmed tree, 8 m high.

Tree; Notes: Tree up to 5 m high. Bark pale grey, young branchlets densely tomentose. Leaves alternate, simple; petiole up to 15 mm long, densely tomentose; lamina ovate, 55 x 30 mm, apex acute, base markedly oblique, conspicuously 3-veined, margin denticulate, olive-green with minute, short, white adpressed indumentum to glabrate. Prickles paired, 1 straight 1 falcate. Flowers in axillary clusters, small, 3 mm in diameter. Fruit a berry, globose, 4 mm in diameter, style and perianth persistent.

Tree; Notes: Densely branched small tree, armed. Sterile: ethnobotanical voucher specimen. Muchalo (Lozi, Sisubiya) Munganga. Fruits eaten by children. Xaro (Kwe): fruits crushed, placed in water for sore teeth.