Records made by Coleen Mannheimer

Annual sedge. Red sandy plain. Common.

Annual sedge. Red sandy plain. Common.

Annual sedge. Red sandy plain. Common.

Creeper; Notes: In dark grey sandy soil. Exposure: semi-shade. Uncommon. Flowers: in axillary and terminal sprays; petals 4, creamy-white, anthers numerous; very attractive, with lovely perfume. Leaves: compound, imparipinnate, serrate - crenate and lobed. Branches opposite.

1500 cm high; Tree; Notes: Tree. Height: 1500 cm. Leaves: ovate lanceolate, glabrous, dark green, leathery, fascicled. Stems and bark: twigs opposite. Fruits and seed: in small axillary and terminal clusters. Hard green berries, ovate with pointed tip. Ovary does not seem to be inferior. Fulls un, occasional.

Shrub; Notes: Exposure: full sun. Perennial. Uncommon. Height: 1 m. Leaves: opposite, olive green, very hairy, soft to touch, serrate. Stem greenish white, very pubescent. Fruit 3-locular, green. Other: loamy sandy soil. Along road verge.

Notes: Growing in black/dark grey loamy soil together with Sesbania sp. and a creeping Cucurbitaceae. Up to 50 cm high shoots above soil surface, sprouting frequently, but localized. Single reddish fruit in axils.

Robust twiner

Shrub; Notes: Exposure: full sun. Perennial. Leaves: opposite, discolorous, alternate. Stem reddish brown. Other: loamy sandy soil.

Geophyte growing between grasses, height 0.25-0.30 m. Corm elongate-cylindrical. Flowers mature, carried in terminal raceme, white, with long spur. Fruit not seen.

First record for Namibia.

170 cm high; Notes: Exposure: full sun. Annual. Localized. Flowers: quite small for Hibiscus, creamy yellow, 4 cm in diameter when open; centre dark purple. Calyx glandular. Epicalyx lobes appear to be 7. Leaves: 3-lobed. Other: erect, sturdy annual.

1 m high; Notes: 1 m High single-stemmed plants in high grasses, mainly Vetiveria species. Pure white flower with white recurved stigmas over yellow anthers. Single flowers on long petiole. Fruit capsule covered by yellow bristles.

Shrub; Notes: Exposure: full sun. Perennial. Relatively common. Height: 2 m. Flowers: axillary buds. Leaves: alternate, soft, pubescent, whitish green. Stipules present. Stems and bark: brown, hairy. Other: sandy soil along road verge.

Notes: In sandy shallow depression next to seasonal pan.

Notes: In dark grey clay on plain.

800 cm high; Tree; Notes: Perennial tree, 800 cm high. Leaves: 5-veined from just above base. Fruits and seed: fruit deep purple-black, ripe. Other: trees 8-10 m tall, all seed was collected from a single tree. Very attractive tree. Occasional.

1000 cm high; Tree; Notes: Occurrence: common. Leaves: obovate, tapering at base, rounded apex, fascicled on side - shoots, dark green. Young leaves a bit puberulous, even a bit ciliate at the margin. Fruits and seed: seeds winged, ripe, squarish in outline, red becoming brown.

Shrub; Notes: Loamy sand soil. Exposure: full sun. Shrub. Uncommon. Height: 1 m. Leaves: opposite, dark green, margin entire, interpetiolar stipules, petioles long. Stem dark grey. Fruit: green, in leaf axils, inferior ovary.

Shrub; Notes: Perennial shrub. Height: 1 m. Occurrence: abundant. Flower: flowerheads purple, terminal clusters. Leaves: alternate, margin serrate, grey-green, hairy. Other: sandy soil along road verge. Exposure: full sun.