Records made by Iain Darbyshire

Shrub to 3 m tall with spreading-ascending lateral branches. Male inflorescences below female ones, or some branches with male inflorescences only.

Succulent herb, wilting. Stems decumbent, to 40 cm tall, fleshy, purplish. Florets white, capitula small (c. 0.5 cm diam.).

Shrubby tree. Flowers slightly over here but seen elsewhere, creamy-white. Fruits chestnut-brown when mature, held above horizontal leafy branches.

Scrambling shrub with arching branches. Leaves softly hairy, bright green. Female flowers with long red stigmas, elsewhere green. Fruits green, 3-lobed.

Male flowers of Darbyshire 878. Scrambling shrub with arching branches; inflorescence axes reddish, flowers minute, green.

Small tree to 3.5 m tall, spreading, can be shrubby. Leaves heavily eaten. Inflorescences pale green, held below the leaves.

Shrublet c. 40 cm tall with numerous erect branches. Mostly over at this time of year.

Arbusto 3m, caule liso castanho, folhas simples alternadas

Shrub or small tree to 3 m tall, several seen on rocks by river. Sterile voucher for identification.

Tree to 6 m tall with arching branches. Fruits green with velvety grey-green hairs; seeds with bright orange aril.

Erect caespitose herb to 50 cm tall. Involucral bracts green, slightly reflexed. Ray and disc florets deep yellow; disc florets with exserted brown stamens.

Erect annual herb, delicate pink flowers with pale yellow throat.

Spreading tree to 4 or 8 m, sometimes with multiple stems. Bark smooth, light grey, heavily covered in lichens. Fine narrow leaflets, drooping in rain or at night.

Shrub to 1.5 m; young growth. Flowers clustered in axils with leaves, petals cream-white, reflexed

Erect annual herb. Flowers purple with paler tube and throat.

Erect annual herb c. 60 cm tall. Corolla lobes blue-purple, tube and outside of lobes paler.

Erect annual with thread-like stems. Flower with 3-winged lilac receptacle, tepals minute, very pale lilac or white.

Annual herb with many branches from a decumbent base. Tepals white, flower pink within.

Perennial herb with wiry decumbent stems. Flowers bright yellow.

Herb with fleshy white roots. Corolla barely opens, yellowish-green or yellow. Fruits green.

Fern with tuft of fronds from short rhizome; sori dark brown when mature.

Shrub with harsh spines. Sweet smelling sap when stem cut. Leaves bright green. A naturalised Citrus?

Shrub to 4 m tall. Leaves dark green and glossy above. Fruits green with fuscous short hairs; stigmas brown green.

Small tree to 3 m. Leaves hard, sclerophyllous, older ones with lichens on upper surface; very marked drip-tips.

Small tufted sedge forming dense clumps or tufts on rocks.

Erect succulent perennial herb to 3 m tall, slender stiff stems. At this time, mainly over with new leaves emerging but a few stems with flowering spikes. Corolla pale pink.

Erect herb c. 1 m tall, stems fleshy. Involucral bracts green; florets yellow-orange.

Straggling shrub with pendulous branches. Young fruits only, green. Inflorescence supra-axillary.

Shrub. Flowers white, lobes recurved, stigma white, 2-lobed. Fruits green or with purplish tinge.

Shrub to 2 m. Fleshy leaves. Small green fruits clustered in axils.

Scrambling twiner or shrublet, copious white exudate. Flower buds yellow, open flowers yellow-green, small corona. Old fruit valves brown.

Shrublet to 50 cm tall with white exudate; erect unbranched stems from long rhizomes. Sterile voucher for identification.

Rhizomatous herb with fan-shaped leaves, sometimes sending out long trailing runners with small elliptic leaves. Fruiting only, fruits green, on arching peduncles.

Shrub to 2.5 m tall, often smaller; dense foliage, many branches. Flowers c. 0.5 cm diam., 3 cream-coloured petals, pale green calyx.

Tree to 8 m, branches spreading. Bark furrowed, thin. Slash whitish; wood hard. Leaves with drip tip, somewht sclerophyllous, markedly serrate. Fruiting on stem; clusters of green hard fruits, c.1 cm long, somewhat warty.

Shrub with widely divergent branches, 1-2 m tall. Small green fruits.

Tree to 4 m. Long spicate axillary inflorescence, greenish-white with yellow anthers. Many ants farming scale insects.

Trepadeira de 7m comprimento, folhas recomposta, alternadas, parpinuladas, semente grande redondo e toda ela verde

Tufted grass, erect. Spikelets golden-brown due to dense soft hairs.

Shrub to 2.5 m tall. Leaves silvery beneath. Flowers yellow; young fruits green, turning brown with maturity.

Shrub to 2.5 m, Flowers white, with whorl of white ?nectaries at base of petals; stamens white. Fruits glossy green.

Small tree or shrub, up to 3.5 m tall, dense foliage. Fruits green with pale green pedicels.

Small shrub, 50-100 cm tall. Creamy-white flowers.

Terrestrial orchid to c. 30 cm tall, largely leafless; swollen white rootstock. Tepals pink, short rounded spur yellowish, throat white with mauve speckling, labellum with brownish central area.

Large spreading tree to 15 m; bole straight, branched high, loaded with epiphytes (Rhipsalis, orchids). Bark dark brown, smooth, slightly shiny in places. Leaves large, clustered terminanlly, not hairy.

Small tree to c. 5 m tall; yellow exudate when cut. One damaged fruit seen, green, globose, with yellow exudate beneath skin, white within.

Decumbent herb, densely white-hirsute stems. Corolla lilac, anthers blackish.

Erect perennial herb with woody rootstock. Stems densely patent-white hirsute. Corolla lilac-blue, small.

Erect herb to 70 cm tall; foliage silvery-green. Florets pale golden-yellow.

Herb c. 50 cm tall with spreading or trailing branches. Corolla deep pink; stamens yellow, outer stamens within purple spurs.

Erva toda ela verde que aparenta brobolhas raspantes, folhas, simples alternada, avermelhado na base da bainha

Trailing slender herb. Minute green flowers and fruit.

Small tree. Male inflorescences red-brown, flowers easily dislodged.

Small understorey tree to 5 m. Bark flaky. Young leaves flushing red. Fruits winged, yound developing ones still with bright red stigma.

Small tree to 3 m tall, dense foliage on lateral branches. Male flowers minute, red-green.

Arvore de caule muito forte e cascas fina, de cerca de 10m altura, pequenas folhas simples alternada

Perennial herb. Tepals green-yellow externally, bright yellow within; stamens with bright yellow anthers.

Perennial herb with fleshy white roots. Tepals bright yellow within, yellow-green externally.

Fleshy decumbent herb. Flowers deep pink throughout within, paler pink and with greenish tinge externally, spur green-pink. Fruit green. See sketch in field book plus photos.

Erect, usually single-stemmed grass. Spikes white-woolly.

Slender shrub to 3 m tall. Fruits brown, pendulous.

Minute tufted herb, spikelets green.

Erect herb to 1.5 m tall (usually less), stiff branches erect. Fruiting only; bracts pale green, inflorescences 1-sided.

Trailing or spreading herb. Bracts green, turning pale green. Plants mainly in fruit.

Trailing or decumbent herb, numerous radiating branches forming clumps; stems red. Flowers minute, red-brown.

Small bulbous herb; bulb white with slimy sap. Culms fleshy; flowers pale green with pinkish tinge to some tepals. Fruits pale green.

Sprawling perennial herb from woody rootstock. Flowers white, anthers bright orange.

Fleshy herb, decumbent stems to 50 cm tall. Corolla yellow, 4 petals. Fruits green.

Prostrate on peaty soils, fertile parts erect, pale yellow-green.

Erect or pendulous branches on shaded riverbank.

Shrubs to 1.5 m or small tree. Leaves with long petioles. Fruits on side shoots, reddish above.

Tufted perennial with grey-green foliage; pale yellow-brown spikelets.

Decumbent herb, stems fleshy, rooting at lower nodes. Corolla opens in late afternoon, lilac, petals reflexed, slightly darker towards base; tufts of purple hairs at base of stamens; filaments white, anthers purple.

Climbing herb or liana, here sprawling near the ground; stipules deeply forked, somewhat reflexed. Corolla pale yellowish-green with centre orange turning brown, 4 or 5 lobes.

Large arching fronds radiating from a thick rhizome; fronds can have many tens of pinnae, up to 2.5 m long or more. No fertile fronds found.

Shrub to 2.5 m tall, widely branched. Leaves sticky when pressed, glossy. In bud only, green.

Small tree or shrub, up to 3 m tall. Collected previously in bud only, here in full flower. Corolla white, 4-lobed, 4 long-exserted white stamens.

Shrub to small tree, 2 m tall. Stems slightly greenish. Fruits small, green, axillary.

Slender erect annual herb to 30 cm tall. Flowers minute, greenish-white.

Annual herb, trailing over rocks and in crevices. In fruit only, green.

Fern with erect pale green fronds, tufted from a tough woody rhizome, fertile portions terminal on some fronds, brown.

Erect perennial herb from horizontal rhizome. Corolla bright salmon pink, somewhat paler externally.

Erva de 70cm, toda ela verde flores amarelo

Trailing and spreading rhizomatous grass. Spikelets pale green.

Shrub to 2 m tall, dark green foliage. Mature fruits black (at first green); plants mostly only with old withered flowers.

Erect perennial herb with some fleshy horizontal basal stems. Mostly over at this time of year (with brown-black old inflorescences) but occasional branches still with flowers. Corolla small, blue-lilac with paler tube.

Trailing / sprawling fleshy herb, rooting along stems. Flowers pale sky blue, somewhat darker towards mouth, tube white.

Untidily branched perennial herb. Bracts green turning brown. Corolla white, stamens not exserted. Mostly past flowering at this time of year.

Slender annual herb, sometimes much-branched. Female flowers with 5 pale green tepals. Fruits green with yellow-green stigmas.

Perennial herb or subshrub to 1.5 m tall, bark of mature stems pale brown, often abruptly changing to herbaceous dark green on leafy stems. Fruits green.

Small shrub to 1-1.5 m tall, rarely taller, much branched. Inflorescences green-white.

Shrub to 3 m tall. Petals cream-coloured, woolly within; stamens yellow.

Small shrub or herb 30-100 cm tall. Inflorescences at first globose, becoming capitate. Involucral bracts pale green. Corolla white, lobes recurved towards apices.

Shrublet, 30 cm tall, with erect branches from base. Flowers white, corolla with recurved lobes.

Liana, here trailing over rocks, with long whip-like branches. Flower buds white-green. Fruits 2-lobed, glossy green.

Fern with huge arching fronds to c. 3 x 1 m or more, base of rachis c. 3 cm thick with small sharp protrusions; several fronds from large basal rhizome. Pinnae from the mid-point and terminal part of frond collected.

Pendulous stems growing from rock crevices, some young stems spiny. Fruits white, fleshy.

Tufted sedge; spikelets red-brown.

Untidy small shrub to 1 m. Axillary inflorescences yellowish-green. Fruits brown, widely splitting into 3 valves.

Shrub c. 1.5 m tall. Flower buds only, green.

Perhaps the same as Darbyshire 880. Shrub to 1.5 m tall, erect branches. Fruits green, 3-lobed.

Shrub to 2.5 m. Fruits green turning brown-black, often on leafless portions of branches.

Scrambling shrub or liana. Corolla white, 4-lobed, lobes recurved towards apices, large white clavate stigma exserted. Flowers with sweet scent.

Erect terrestrial orchid to 60 cm tall with swollen ovoid tuber, strongly angular stems. Bracts green in lower portion, turning white distally. Tepals pale green externally, white within, labellum 2-lobed with broad central notch, yellow centrally.

Erect sedge to 50 cm tall from a horizontal pink rhizome. Spikelets pale brown.

Liana, with hooks on young branches; leaves glossy, dark green. Flowers pale orange. Fruits (collected by J. Massumbi) pale red, globose.

Trepadeira muito ramificado toda ela verde com cerca e 6m, fruto vermelho quanto maduro, folhas simples opostas

Shrub to 2.5 m, leaves vivid green; sharp thorns on older branches. Flowers in bud only, pale green.

Arvore 17m, caule muito ondulado preto-branco liso casca cor de vinho, folhas simples alternadas

Small understorey tree to 5 m. Leaves leathery. Flowers just finished; fruits purple-tinged.

Small tree, deep green leaves, copious white latex. Flowers creamy-white.

Tree, trunk procumbent and horizontal c. 1 m from the ground, leafy branches erect to 5 m tall. Young flower buds only, green, on lateral branches.

Several broad fronds from a woody rhizome, fronds c. 1-1.5 x 0.7 m.

Slender erect annual herb to 1.5 m tall, largely unbranched. Standard brown outside, pinkish within; wing petals bright pink; mainly in fruit.

Annual herb, much branched. Corolla pure white, calyx markedly winged.

Tree to 6 m tall with spreading branches, fruiting at 2 m. Fruits green, on widely divergent lateral branches with distichous leaves.

Herb to 2 m. Corolla pale mauve; filaments green-white, anthers yellow.

Tree to 20 m tall with stilt roots; dense dark green foliage. Fruits yellow-green speckled brown, turning pale brown.

Tree to 3 m tall, leaves felty hairy, greyish-green beneath. Flowers yellow-green. Fruits globose, glossy, bright green.

Tree c. 7 m tall, dense very glossy foliage; leafy stems red-brown. Fruits green, glossy, within brown-green calyx.

Arvore de 8m, caule liso castanho com seiva branca colante que amarga, folhas simples opostas, flores brancas de 5 petalas

Slender perennial herb with tuberous vertical root, wiry branches. Flower buds yellow, open flowers sky blue.

Treelet c. 1.5 m; underside of leaves glaucous with yellowish midrib. Sterile voucher for identification.