Collections made by Mike Bingham

Aquatic with floating stems.

Flower

Abundant. Pale yellow or cream flowers widespread on the woodland floor, appear to be of this species.

Flower.

Flower.

This is an isolated population which has not flowered for several years.

Inflorescence green.

Fruit attract green pigeons.

Weed in cultivation.

Tree; occasional in Kalahari woodland; to 8 m; leaves dull green; fruits light green.

Lake Kariba. Open woodland.

Forming large tufts.

Shrub, ca. 1 m high, common in thicket.

Corona green.

Flowers in bud

Small tree.

Weed.

Suffrutex.

MIKENA (Lozi).

Straggling herb in grass.

Flower

Flower

Fruit. Bole slightly fluted.

Tree on termite mound.

Fruit.

Small tree, 4 m high, tending to be scandent. Fruit.

Tree in woodland. Flowers pink.

A pioneer on sand banks. Erect annual; standard white, keel green and yellow.
K, det Mar 06: ‘with unusually narrow leaves’

Erect annual.

In bays, forming colonies at water's edge.

Evergreen tree, 8 meter tall, early flowering specimen.

Weed.

Woodland, flower.

Aquatic.

Cultivated from seed, ex Chilanga.

Abundant.

Common weed and ruderal.

Flower.

Determined as Ethulia conyzoides

Determined as Ethulia conyzoides

Determined as Ethulia conyzoides

Small tree, mostly leafless, bark smooth, pale.

(NU: Material young and lacking the mature achenes needed for full confirmation of this idenification).

Weed

Tree; widespread; in Kalahari woodland; to 18 m tall; leaves shiny green; flowers cream; anthers brown.

Flowers pale mauve.

Climbing shrub growing in vegetation. Profusion of yellow flowers.

Mat forming herb, not aromatic, flower purple.

Herb rooted between rocks in stream bed.

Clay dambo. Herb to 10 cm.

Local.

Occasional; widely-spaced perennial from soft taproot; stems dull red; standard light red outside, inside brick red; wings brick red; keel light green; young pods dull red and green.

Prostrate habit.

Shrub; to 2 m; grey bark; weak wood; young pods yellow-green.

Floodplain aquatic.

Roadside creeper in seepage.

Flower.

Originally (1996) determined as L.caudata by KEW.

Floodplain aquatic.

Replacing sedges under heavy grazing pressure.

In bays. Semi-aquatic.

Flowering coppice, 1 m high.

Cultivated climber.

Suffrutex. A late flowering specimen. Flowers pink.

Shrub 1 m high.

Shrub, 1 m tall.

In bays, amongst sand and rock, near water.

Parasitic on Albizia harveyi.

Shrubs, 4 m high. Flower buds.

Small tree, 4 m high.

Shrub in escarpment miombo woodland.

Shrub, 3 m high.

Aquatic.

Annual.

Tufted perennial grass; locally dominant.

5 km downriver from Manyinga, S bank. Kalahari woodland. Coppice.

Dambo edge fallow.

Flowers pink.

Occasional; to 3 m; stems light green; calyx green; all petals yellow.

Pioneer on termite mound.

Flowers mauve

Fruits pale yellow when ripe; now mostly over; pulp bright orange.

Frequent; spreading and upright stems; standard bright yellow with dull red markings at claw; wings and beak of keel bright yellow.

Bracts white.

Two trees on banks of perennial stream. Only specimens seen.

On Morus.

Flower.

Flower.