Collections made by Mike Bingham

Suffrutex in fallow field.

Tips of fronds take root when they touch ground

Aquatic with floating stems.

Flower

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

Flower.

15m tall tree .

Medium-size tree.

Cultivated. Flower. (ex. Nat. Bot. Gard., Harare.

Flower.

With Salix and Phragmites.

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

Flowers

Flowers white.

Inflorescence green.

Fruit attract green pigeons.

Tree in village

Coppiced tree.

Weed in cultivation.

River bank at foot of gorge. Caudex erect.

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

Lake Kariba. Open woodland.

Forming large tufts.

Stunted tree, 4m high. Flowers.

Local at woodland margins.

Dominant woodland tree.

Sterile.

Tree in riverine forest.

Small tree at foot of steep hill. Wavy leaflet margins distinguished this from B.floribunda. Sterile.

Tree in woodland and riverine fringe. ‘Muzombo’ (Lungu)

Woodland codominant.

Seedlings.

Shrub in thicket.

Silt over limestone.

NU: Tentative, "spikelets mostly disintegrated")

Garden weed

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

Cultivated from seed obtained from the Zimbabwe National Botanic Gardens.

Corona green.

Flowers in bud

Small tree.

Weed.

Ruderal.

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.

Temporary pool

Temporary pool

Rooted in mud.

Tree in woodland. Flowers pink.

Spreading and upright; stems dull green; calyx very light green; standard a dull yellow-light orange, inside brighter yellow; wings bright yellow; keel light green; young pods light green.

Frequent, among grasses; calyx green; bracteole deep red-purple; standard pale orange with darker red-purple stripes; wings similar; keel pale orange at beak, light green proximally.

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

Abundant at roadsides.

Ruderal.

Erect habit.

Locally abundant; shrub to 2 m; standard yellow with dark purple nerves, lighter inside; wings yellow with light purple nerves; keel green at base, purple-black at upper margin and at beak; pods inflated green, some with red-purple colour.

Occasional; annual or perennial with taproot; calyx light green; standard yellow with darker red nerves in and out; wings and keel yellow to light green, DNA.

Glaucous.

Erect annual.

Abundant in depressions.

Annual weed.

Weed of cultivation.

Very large plant, glaucous, culms 3-angled & grooved on sides.

In bays, forming colonies at water's edge.

Over flowering97

2m. tall

large sedge in stream bed

K, det D.Simpson as Cyperus sp

large sedge in stream bed

Soft annual with very small roots.

Shrub in thicket.

Scandent shrub

Evergreen tree, 8 meter tall, early flowering specimen.

Mauve flowers.

Weed.

Dambo edge fallow.

Woodland, flower.

Dambo.

Aquatic.

Cultivated from seed, ex Chilanga.