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Extensive colony present

Bright yellow form

Climbing into Acacia nigrescens

Looks like a cross between A. sandersonii and A. dregeanum

Meise Specimen (BR)

Meise specimen (BR) Looks like a cross between A. sandersonii and A. dregeanum

iNaturalist record

More a scrambling shrub than a liane due to lack of support trees nearby.

Slender terrestrial herbs, up to 25 cm cm high; flowers white with purple markings in the lip. Locally common

Twining; flowers pink, 2-lipped

Leaves with notched apex; lateral veins not clearly visible

long, creamy-whitish inflorescence. Brown pod breaking up in parts

Small tree with yellowish sap and stiffly leathery opposite leaves.

Small tree c. 5 m tall; leaves glossy dark green above, paler below with deep purple petioles; fruit c. 8 mm in diameter, orange-yellow often with red spots or tinge, together forming large clusters below the leaves. One specimen seen

Flowers white

Flowers white with pink in lip.

Fruit. In half shade, hanging from trees

Rather small depauperate specimen but bracts, indumentum and short peduncles all match L. angolensis

Leaves opposite; peduncles longer than the middle of subtending leaf-blade.

Branched, erect herb; flowers pale blue.

iNaturalist record

Tiny blue-flowered species; A specimen (Mill 1979) under the name Lobelia heyneana is mentioned in Burrows & Willis (Sabonet 31: 198, 2005) but excluded as doubtful. It may concern a misidentification of this species. Otherwise this is the first confirmed record for the Nyika.

Same fruit now dried.

Flowers white, unpleasant smell.

Images of this record were taken on 7-05-2004 (record id. No 24510 and 24511)

In fruit

Leaves galled

Leaf blades hairy on upper surface; flowers c. 3 mm in diameter.

Leaf blades hairy on along the margins; flowers c. 5 mm in diameter.

White flowers

Perennial herb with spreading ascending stems; flowers mauve

More densely hairy specimens than usual.

Flower creamy yellow with darker heart, Leaves with stiff short hairs, Stem rough, about 50 cm; Common.

Flowers white

Same tree as in record 113744 (Bw1970), now flowering.

Low suffrutex. Altitude unusually high for this taxon.

Small tree resembling Tabernaemontana but with much larger white flowers.

Climbing into Blechnum tabulare