Records determined by Maggs

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

1.2 m high; Shrub; Notes: Annual/bi-annual shrub, 1.20 m high. Flowers orange.

Herb; Notes: Tall perennial herb to shrub, plentiful on lermitarium. Stem erect, woody at base, dense stellate, yellowish indumentum, with scattered sericeous hairs. Lamina circular to cordiform, 80 x 60 mm, margin dentate, apex tapering, base cordate, densely pubescent. Flowers in groups of 3 per axel, 20 mm long. Petals orange-yellow. Capsule discoidal, 25 mm in diameter.

Shrub; Notes: Dense shrubs, many stemmed, sometimes forming dense thickets. Heads cream coloured.

Shrub; Notes: Slender shrubs forming thickets up to 5m high and 6m in diameter.

Tree; Notes: Shrubby tree, 4 - 5 m high. Bark pale grey. Spines not stipular, scattered along branchlets, hooked. Stipules caducous. Leaves bipinnate, pinna 10 - 12 pairs, 8 cm long. Leaflets elongate - ovate, 5 x 1 mm, base oblique, fresh green, glabrous, close-ranked. Pod flattened, up to 20 x 3 cm, red-green to brilliant red becoming brown.

Tree; Shrub; Notes: Many-stemmed shrubs, seldom single-stemmed trees, up to 4m in height and 8m in diameter. Pods standing upright on branches. Common.

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.

Creeper; Notes: Mopane woodland. Armed creeper, profuse. Leaves 7-palmate, densely hirsute. Ethnobotanical specimen: Sikoko (Lozi). Not eaten by Lozi people; Kha (Kwe) fruits eaten but tubers poisonous..

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)

Herb; Notes: Annual herb, 30 - 50 cm high when in flower. Stems unbranched, 4-angled, green with dense, short, white adpressed indumentum. Leaves opposite, simple, subsessile; lamina narrowly elliptic, apex acute, base cuneate, margin irregularly dentate, 40-100 x 6-12 mm, dull yellow-green with dark green venation, with dense, short, white, hirsutellous indumentum becoming glabrate , aromatic. Flowers densely verticillate at apex in 1-2 whorls, bilabiate. Petals fused, cream-coloured. Sepals 5, free, linear, spine-tipped, densely pubescent, persistent. Stamens 2. Abundant in disturbed areas.

Herb; Notes: Erect herb tending to become woody at base. Leaves lanceolate, dentate, clustered at nodes. Flowers small, cream-coloured, clustered in globose inflorescences. Aromatic.

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.

Tree; Notes: Tall tree, 12 m high. Bark fissured longitudinally; branchlets red-brown, glaucous. Leaves bi- (pari-) pinnate, prominent gland on petiole; leaflets 6-7 x 1-1.5 mm, discoloured, falcate. Inflorescence globose, axillary; flowers white; stamen filaments 20 mm long.

8 m high; Tree; Notes: Single stemmed tree, 8 m high. Flowers white. Old pods of previous season.

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.

Shrub; Notes: Tall, bushy shrub, 2-4 m high. Bark reddish brown. Leaves obovate, bright green with prominent yellowish venation, up to 45 x 30 mm. Flowers sweet-smelling, plentiful, cream-coloured. Mixed semi-deciduous woodland after a burn.

Notes: Slender, many-stemmed or single-stemmed shrubs or small trees. Plants up to 3 m high. Flowers white, sweet-smelling. Very common.

1 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub about 1 m high. Flowers showy. Petals white, frilled. Growing in association with mopane. Isunde (Lozi): roots are used to treat backache.

Shrub; Notes: Densely branched shrub, 1-2 m high. Bark grey; young branchlets with dense, white, pulverulent indumentum. Leaves alternate, bilobed; petiole 5-7 mm long, adaxially concave, grey-green with dense white indumentum; lamina circular, apex deeply cleft, base cordate, margin entire, coriaceous, adaxially yellow to grey-green, glabrous, abaxially with dense, white, velutinous indumentum especially on prominent venation. Flowers in terminal and axillary racemes, showy, fragrant, borne in profusion. Petals 5, free, obovate, bases clawed, margins sinuate, white to deep rose pink. Sepals 5, green to pink-tinted, densely pubescent, glandular. Stamens 5, well exerted. Mixed woodland.

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: Tree 2.5 m high. Very scarce. Along the water edge.

Tree; Notes: Medium sized tree in riverine vegetation. Ethnobotanical Voucher Specimen: Katembokolo (Lozi) - fruits not eaten; sgwere (Kwe) - roots placed in milk to promote curdling.

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.

Tree; Notes: Medium tree, 5-6 m high. Bark grey-brown. Leaves paripinnate; leaflets ovate-elliptic, 35 x 20 mm, dull green, discoloured, margin entire, apex rounded to notched, glabrescent. Fruit a pod, elongate, cylindric, 20 x 2 cm, yellow-brown, velutinous.

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.

Notes: Armed shrub, limited to riverine vegetation. Ethnobotanical voucher specimen: nzani (Lozi) - roots 'power' medicine for men.

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.

Tall shrub, 3 m high. Stems profusely branched from base, with dark grey bark; young branchlets with dense white indumentum. Leaves alternate but normally clustered on dwarf shoots, simple; petiole up to 1 cm long, adaxially grooved, yellow-green, densely pubescent; lamina ovate to elliptic to obovate, apex rounded to notched, base cuneate, margin entire and sinuate to obscurely dentate along upper margin, 30-80 x18-40 mm, adaxially dark olive-green with dense, short, white, adpressed indumentum, abaxially pale olive-green, indumentum as above, venation prominent with lateral veins merging with margin. Flowers past. Fruit a berry, fleshy, orange when ripe, ovoid, 1 cm long, in terminal clusters, fused sepals persistent as cupular structure extending 1/3 of fruit, style apically persistent.

Notes: Low-growing, sub-aquatic perennial, 50-80 mm when in flower. Stem compact. Roots fibrous, red-coloured. Leaves fascicled, simple, subsessile; lamina elliptic, apex acute, base cuneate to decurrent, margin entire and conspicuously ciliate, 4 x 1 cm, adaxially yellow-green with scattered white adpressed indumentum, abaxially purple-tinted with dense indumentum of same type as above, fairly erect and not prostrate on substrate, coriaceous. Flowers borne in axillary racemes with normally only 1 flower opening at a time, 5 mm in diameter, bilabiate; peduncle slender, green, 3-4 cm long, densely pubescent. Floral bracts foliaceous, paired, green, conspicuously ciliate and pubescent; petals fused, blue to purplish with white puckered striations and yellow throat. Terminalia sericea predominant.

2 m high; Herb; Notes: Slender perennial herbs, 2 m high. Flowers white with darkbrown stripes.

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.

Creeper; Notes: Cleared area in mixed semi-deciduous woodland. Soil pH 8,5. Annual creeper on road verge. Locally abundant together with Citrullus lanatus. Leaves scabrous. Flower petals golden yellow. Fruits plentiful, borne on long stalks, dark green riepening to golden yellow, extremely bitter. Pollinating beetles collected for id.

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.

Creeper; Notes: Prostrate creeper with trailing annual stems and perennial rootstock. Leaves more or less circular, olive-green, margins irregularly incised, 20 x 20 - 25 mm. Flowers tubular, showy, pale pink specked with maroon in throat, 25 - 30 mm long. Fruit discoidal with 2 sharp thorns adaxially.

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.

Shrub; Notes: Low-growing, woody, half-shrub, up to m high. Stems yellow-green, glabrous but basally ferruginously velutinous. Leaves alternate, simple; petiole stout, yellow-green, 3-5 mm long, obliquely striate; lamina oblong, ca. 6 x 2 cm, apex rounded, base cuneate, margin entire, discoloured, glabrous, venation prominent. Flowers in basal, axillary clusters, tubular, fragrant, androecium or gynoecium. Petals white, apically recurved. Sepals densely brown velutinous, subtended basally by 2-3 ovate bracts.

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.

Geophyte; Notes: Bulb, plentiful. Leaves 6, broad 45 mm, green to glaucous, glabrous. Sterile-ethnobotanical voucher specimen: Govo (Kwe)=leaves cooked and eaten like spinach. Bulb not eaten (only by porcupines!).

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.

Tree; Notes: Slender, single-stemmed trees, 4 - 5 meters high.

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.

Herb; Notes: Annual herb, about 75 cm high. Stems ribbed, densely hirsute, much branched. Leaves sessile; lamina obovate, about 50 x 20 mm, yellow-green margins dentate, densely hirsute. Inflorescence capitula in corymb-like arrangement, homogamous, about 1 cm in diameter; petals purple.

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.

Notes: Small, half-shrub, growing especially in moist conditions. Ethnobotanical Voucher Specimen: Kuzukuha (Lozi). Fruits are edible. Also a good-luck charm when mixed with other herbs.

Notes: 50 cm high. Densely velutinous on stem and leaves. Leaf narrowly ovate, discoloured, 5 x 1.5 cm, venation prominent, adaxially glossy and scabrous, abaxially soft and velutinous. Figs 1-2 / axis, ovoid, green flushed with deep maroon, densely pubescent.

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: Rounded shrub, ca. 1 m tall; branchlets with golden brown pubescence. Lamina small, 20 x 12 mm, margin crenulate, apex acute, base oblique, venation prominent. Flowers 2 - 3 per axil; petals inconspicuous. Sepals adaxially white, glabrous; abaxially grey-green, sericeous, 10 - 12 mm long. Fruit 1 - 2-lobed, blackish, more or less glabrous.

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.

Shrub; Notes: Rounded shrub. Stems with dense yellow pubescent indumentum. Leaves alternate; lamina broadly ovate to almost circular, up to 80 x 65 mm, margin irregularly dentate, with dense stellate indumentum. Flowers in axillary clusters, 25 mm in diameter. Petals yellow, shorter than sepals.

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.

Shrub; Notes: Densely branched shrub. Bark dark grey, obscurely cracked; young branchlets slightly zigzag, very densely pubescent. Leaves alternate, simple; stipules linear, paired, 2-3 mm long, caducous; petiole stout, 1.5-2 mm long, densely velutinous; lamina elliptic to obovate, up to 35 x 15 mm, apex acute, base obscurely rounded, margin denticulate, adaxially dark green, abaxially paler olive-green with prominent reticulate venation, both surfaces with brownish stellate indumentum affording a harsh, scabrous texture. Flowers past. Fruit a berry, globose, unlobed, fleshy, yellow to red-brown, stellate indumentum becoming glabrate, axillary, 1 per cluster, 1 cm in diameter.

Shrub; Notes: Tall shrub, up to 2.5 m high. Stems woody with red-brown bark peeling off in grey papery layers; lateral branchlets often geniculate, red-brown with dense brown indumentum. Leaves alternate, simple; petiole short, 2 mm long, densely pubescent; stipule linear, caducous; lamina ovate-elliptic, apex acute, base rounded, slightly oblique, margin denticulate, 35 x 20 mm, dull olive-green, adaxially sparsely pubescent, abaxially conspicuously pubescent especially along reticulate venation. Flowers clustered in 2-4 's, axillary, at most 15 mm in diameter. Petals 5, free, narrowly obovate, shorter than sepals. Sepals 5, free, yellow to yellow-green, pubescent, lanceolate, 10-12 mm long, strongly recurved. Stamens numerous, golden yellow in central cluster. Fruit a berry, globose, undivided, 5 mm in diameter, green. sparsely pubescent.

Herb; Notes: Annual herb, 35 cm when in flower. Stem much branched from base, green, erect, rigid, densely glandular. Leaves alternate, small, simple; lamina obovate to cuneate, apex rounded to truncate, base cuneate, margin dentate especially along upper margin, up to 15 x 8 mm, dull green, abaxially 3-veined at base, densely pubescent-glandular, adaxially glabrous; petiole 2 mm long. Flowers: solitary, axillary, campanulate, slightly pendulous, small, 3 mm in diameter. Petals 5, slightly imbricate, free, bright magenta-pink, slightly recurved at apices. Sepal 5, free, minute, 2 mm long, persistent. Peduncles exceptionally slender 1.5-2 cm long, persistent; pedicel articulate, 2-3 mm long. Fruit: capsule, ovoid-discoidal, 4-lobed, minutely horned at apices.

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.

Herb; Notes: Annual herb, 30 cm high. Stems slender, terete, much branched from base, yellow-green with dense white adpressed indumentum. Leaves alternate, imparipinnately dicompound; petiole slender, 10 mm long, grey-green with dense white indumentum; rhachis 1.5 - 4 cm long bearing 1 - 3 pairs of pinnae and 1 terminal pinna; stipule minutely lanceolate, < 1 cm long, caducous; lamina broadly ovate in outline; pinna narrowly ovate, apex rounded to minutely apiculate, base rounded, slightly oblique, up to 35 x 6 mm, terminally larger, dull grey-green with dense white adpressed indumentum on both surfaces, shortly stalked. Inflorescence an axillary, spicate raceme, 50 - 80 cm long. Flowers small, up to 4 mm long, alternately arranged, pendulous, pubescent. Petals purple. Sepals 5, free, filiform. Fruit a pod, densely pubescent.

Notes: Prostrate annual. Leaves with dense silvery indumentum. Young shoots with yellow-green indumentum. Ethnobotanical Voucher spec.: Txaba (Kwe). Roots boiled in water used to treat diarrhoea.

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.

Creeper; Notes: Creeping on black soil. Only one plant seen. Tiny yellow flowers, round fruits: green when immature and orange/red when ripe. Fruits often in clusters. Leave rhombic shape, hard to the touch.

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.

Herb; Notes: Tall, lanky herb, up to 1.5 m high. Stem erect, rigid, terete, green with fine, white indumentum. Leaves alternate, simple; lamina narrowly ovate to lanceolate, apex acute, base rounded, margin irregularly dentate, 75-100 x 15-25 mm, dull olive-green with scabrid indumentum on both surfaces, venation abaxially prominent, 3-veined from base; petiole 5-8 mm long, green, densely pubescent. Flowers usually solitary (although 2 buds are normally formed/axillary), axillary but concentrated terminally, large, 35 mm in diameter, showy. Petals 5, free, obovate, cream-white, crinkled. Sepals 5, fused, ovate, olive-green and densely pubescent, persistent. Epicalyx segments directly beneath calyx, narrowly linear, up to 5 x 0.5 mm, densely pubescent, persistent. Stamens in central column, 10-12 mm long; pollen golden yellow. Fruit: a capsule, 5-lobed, somewhat inflated, discoidal, 1 cm in diameter, pubescent especially along central rib of each lobe; borne on stalk up to 3 cm long.

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

3 m high; Notes: Sandy loam. Plant height 3.0 m. Pink fruits, black when ripe. Local abundance occasional. Fruits edible. Mbukushu name: mudowera.

Herb; Notes: Annual herb, 50 cm when in flower. Stems slender, erect, virtually unbranched, green, glaucous, glabrous. Leaves alternate (but usually clustered at nodes), simple, sessile; lamina filiform, (4-) 15-25 (-70) x 1 mm, apex acute, base narrowly cuneate, margin entire, dull green glabrous, rapidly drying out. Flowers in axillary, compound dichasia tending to corymb-like arrangement, small, 2.5 mm long. Petals white, inconspicuous, not exerted beyond sepals. Sepals 4, free, brown-green with hyaline margins, minutely ovate, persistent. Fruit a discoidal achene, 2 mm in diameter, brown, verrucose/pitted, encircled by a membranous wing, 2 mm wide. Abundant in disturbed area.

Herb; Notes: Lanky annual herb, growing on road verge. Stem with dense white hispid indumentum. Leaves opposite, sessile; lamina narrowly ovate to lanceolate, 120 x 15 mm, discoloured, adaxially dark dull green with dense white bulbous based hairs, abaxially paler green. Capitulum solitary, 20 mm in diameter. Involucral bracts 2-3 rows, foliaceous.

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.

Creeper; Notes: Creeper, relatively abundant. Ethnobotanical voucher specimen. Malischa (Lozi), fruits edible when ripe, leaves not eaten used as treatment for nose bleed. Gweghobo (Kwe), fruits eaten fresh.

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 herb, up to 30 cm high but mostly shorter. Stem erect, somewhat square in cross section, yellow-green to deep maroon, glabrous, smooth. Leaves opposite, simple, subsessile; lamina lanceolate, 10-50 x 0.5-4 mm, apex acute, base hastate, margin entire but tends to involute, dull green to maroon, glabrous, smooth, slightly succulent, midrib prominent. Inflorescence an umbel, axillary, (2-) 3 (-5)- flowered. Flowers small, 2.5-3 mm in diameter. Calyx campanulate, 4-lobed. Petals purple, 4, free, broadly obovate. Stamens 4; filaments purple, slender, curved, 1.5-2 mm long: anthers yellow, subglobose. Style extended, ca. 3.5 mm long. Capsule globose, surrounded by persistent calyx.

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

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

4 m high; Tree; Notes: Small tree, 4 m high. Sterile specimen-ethnobotanical voucher spec: munyelenyele (Lozi), good strong wood for making porridge sticks sghara (Kwe) oil extracted from seed kernels.

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.

Herb; Notes: Annual herb, 40 cm high when in flower. Stem erect, slender, terete, green to red-tinted especially basally with very fine, white, adpressed indumentum. Nodular sheaths brown, membranous, circumcaulate, conspicuously fringed along margin, persistent. Leaves alternate, simple to pinnati-lobate; lamina linear to imparipinnatisect, margin entire but revolute, apex acute, base sheathed, up to 40 x 7 mm, dull green, glabrous. Flowers in lax axillary/terminal racemes, small, 8 mm in diameter, subtended by fringed, membranous bract. Perianth segments free, 5, ovate, 4 x 1.5 mm, cream-coloured. Pedicel at most 5 mm long. Fruit a capsule, obcuneate to deltoid, 2-3 spiny projections at base, 7 mm long, green, pubescent, floral remains persistent apically.

Notes: In savanna Forest.

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.

Perennial herb, 1.20 m high. Flowers red.

Hydrophyte; Notes: Waterplant.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 1 - 2 m high, growing directly in water. Leaves pinnate, folded closed. Flowers yellow, paplionate, in pendulous panicles.

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.

0.5 m high; Herb; Notes: Bushy, perennial herb, 0.5 m high. Stems rigid, sturdy, densely branched, basally woody, yellow-green, finely fluted, with extremely dense long, yellow-brown, hirsute indumentum. Leaves alternate, imparipinnately compounded; stipules paired, lanceolate, up to 15 x 1.5 mm, green, recurved, pubescent, persistent; petiole slender, 3.5 - 4 cm long, rigid, acute, pubescent; lamina obovate in outline; rhachis 4-15 cm long bearing 4 - 10 pinna pairs and 1 terminal pinna; pinna elongate-ovate, 20-60 x 4-8 mm, apex notched, minutely mucronate, base cuneate, shortly stalked, margin entire, grey-green with dense white adpressed indumentum, midrib yellowish, prominent. Inflorescence an axillary raceme, up to 30 cm long borne on stout, extremely densely pubescent panicle. Flowers 15 mm long. Petals mauve. Pod slightly falcate, flattened, apiculate, up to 90 x 6 x 1 mm, sutures thickened, densely pubescent.

Herb; Notes: Annual herbs, 65 cm high. Flowers mauve. On grassland in mopane woodland.

3 m high; Tree; Notes: Single-stemmed tree, 3 m high. Leaves bright green. Fruits red. Scarce.

Tree; Notes: Medium tree, 8 m high. Bark dark grey, fissured; branchlets velutinous. Leaves terminally clustered; lamina large, 150 x 65 mm, obovate, dull grey-green, densely velutinous abaxially and adaxially along venation, apex acute. Flowers past. Fruit elliptic, flattened, 75 x 35 mm, grey-brown, densely velutinous.

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: Small bushy shrub. Leaves ovate-elliptic, glabrous, thin. Flowers white in dense clusters. Ethnobotanical Voucher specimen: chwere (Kwe) = fruits eaten.

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 branched shrub, 2 m high. Young branchlets perpendicular green to purplish, smooth, glaucous; lateral branchlets perpendicular to main axis, spine-tipped. Leaves alternate (often clustered), simple; petiole twisted, adaxially grooved/flattened, smooth, glabrous; lamina ovate to narrowly ovate, up to 40 x 12 mm, apex rounded to truncate, base rounded, margin entire, glabrous, glaucous, grey-green, midrib abaxially prominent. Spines straight, 8-20 mm long. Flowers in axillary clusters, 8 mm in diameter. Sepals 4, free, smooth, green-yellow, ovate. Petals 4, white, conspicuously bearded. Stamens 8. Fruits an ellipsoid, drupaceous berry.

Shrub; Notes: Densely branched, spinescent shrub, 1.5 m high. Bark pale grey, fluted; lateral branches perpendicular, spine-tipped. Leaves clustered on dwarf shoots, simple; petiole 3-6 mm long, adaxially grooved; lamina ovate, 40 x 15 mm, usually folded along midrib, grey, glaucous, glabrous, midrib abaxially conspicuous. Flowers past. Fruit a berry, solitary, axillary, ovoid, 2.5-3 x 3 cm, fleshy, bright orange when ripe, 1-seeded, sour-tasting but refreshing.

Shrub; Notes: Dense shrub. Ethnobotanical voucher specimen. Mutenta (Lozi). Ffruit eaten, oil extracted from kernels. Root bark used to stain palm leaves for baskets. Kwaxere ( Kwe) - fruit eaten fresh.

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.

Climber; Notes: Delicate annual limber on undergrowth shrubs. Leaves deltoid in outline, 3 - 5 lobed, thin, slightly scabrous adaxially. Flowers minute; petals creamy white. Fruits globose although slightly flattened. Also seen: Citrullus lanatus, Momordica balsamina, Cucumis anguria, C metuliferus, Acanthosicyos naudinianus.

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.

Herb; Notes: Annual herb, 30 cm high. Stem basally woody, otherwise densely hirsute, much branched. Leaves 4-foliolate, leaflets narrowly obovate to lanceolate, 30 x 3 mm, adaxially glabrous, abaxially pubescent, glandular along margin. Inflorescence axillary spikes. Flowers up to 8 mm long, subtended by foliaceous bract, bright yellow. Pod segmented.