Collections made by Iain Darbyshire

Shrub to 3 m tall with spreading-ascending lateral branches. Male inflorescences below female ones, or some branches with male inflorescences only.

Succulent herb, wilting. Stems decumbent, to 40 cm tall, fleshy, purplish. Florets white, capitula small (c. 0.5 cm diam.).

Scrambling shrub with arching branches. Leaves softly hairy, bright green. Female flowers with long red stigmas, elsewhere green. Fruits green, 3-lobed.

Male flowers of Darbyshire 878. Scrambling shrub with arching branches; inflorescence axes reddish, flowers minute, green.

Small tree to 3.5 m tall, spreading, can be shrubby. Leaves heavily eaten. Inflorescences pale green, held below the leaves.

Erect annual herb, delicate pink flowers with pale yellow throat.

Erect annual herb. Flowers purple with paler tube and throat.

Erect annual herb c. 60 cm tall. Corolla lobes blue-purple, tube and outside of lobes paler.

Annual herb with many branches from a decumbent base. Tepals white, flower pink within.

Perennial herb with wiry decumbent stems. Flowers bright yellow.

Fern with tuft of fronds from short rhizome; sori dark brown when mature.

Straggling shrub with pendulous branches. Young fruits only, green. Inflorescence supra-axillary.

Shrub. Flowers white, lobes recurved, stigma white, 2-lobed. Fruits green or with purplish tinge.

Scrambling twiner or shrublet, copious white exudate. Flower buds yellow, open flowers yellow-green, small corona. Old fruit valves brown.

Shrublet to 50 cm tall with white exudate; erect unbranched stems from long rhizomes. Sterile voucher for identification.

Shrub with widely divergent branches, 1-2 m tall. Small green fruits.

Tufted grass, erect. Spikelets golden-brown due to dense soft hairs.

Shrub to 2.5 m tall. Leaves silvery beneath. Flowers yellow; young fruits green, turning brown with maturity.

Terrestrial orchid to c. 30 cm tall, largely leafless; swollen white rootstock. Tepals pink, short rounded spur yellowish, throat white with mauve speckling, labellum with brownish central area.

Tufted sedge to 50 cm tall. Spikelets brown with white anthers.

Trailing slender herb. Minute green flowers and fruit.

Perennial herb. Tepals green-yellow externally, bright yellow within; stamens with bright yellow anthers.

Erect, usually single-stemmed grass. Spikes white-woolly.

Minute tufted herb, spikelets green.

Erect herb to 1.5 m tall (usually less), stiff branches erect. Fruiting only; bracts pale green, inflorescences 1-sided.

Trailing or spreading herb. Bracts green, turning pale green. Plants mainly in fruit.

Trailing or decumbent herb, numerous radiating branches forming clumps; stems red. Flowers minute, red-brown.

Fleshy herb, decumbent stems to 50 cm tall. Corolla yellow, 4 petals. Fruits green.

Prostrate on peaty soils, fertile parts erect, pale yellow-green.

Erect or pendulous branches on shaded riverbank.

Tufted perennial with grey-green foliage; pale yellow-brown spikelets.

Twining herb over Dissotis shrubs. Florets white.

Decumbent herb, stems fleshy, rooting at lower nodes. Corolla opens in late afternoon, lilac, petals reflexed, slightly darker towards base; tufts of purple hairs at base of stamens; filaments white, anthers purple.

Climbing herb or liana, here sprawling near the ground; stipules deeply forked, somewhat reflexed. Corolla pale yellowish-green with centre orange turning brown, 4 or 5 lobes.

Large arching fronds radiating from a thick rhizome; fronds can have many tens of pinnae, up to 2.5 m long or more. No fertile fronds found.

Fern with erect pale green fronds, tufted from a tough woody rhizome, fertile portions terminal on some fronds, brown.

Erect perennial herb from horizontal rhizome. Corolla bright salmon pink, somewhat paler externally.

Trailing and spreading rhizomatous grass. Spikelets pale green.

Trailing / sprawling fleshy herb, rooting along stems. Flowers pale sky blue, somewhat darker towards mouth, tube white.

Untidily branched perennial herb. Bracts green turning brown. Corolla white, stamens not exserted. Mostly past flowering at this time of year.

Fern with huge arching fronds to c. 3 x 1 m or more, base of rachis c. 3 cm thick with small sharp protrusions; several fronds from large basal rhizome. Pinnae from the mid-point and terminal part of frond collected.

Pendulous stems growing from rock crevices, some young stems spiny. Fruits white, fleshy.

Tufted sedge; spikelets red-brown.

Shrub to 2.5 m. Fruits green turning brown-black, often on leafless portions of branches.

Erect terrestrial orchid to 60 cm tall with swollen ovoid tuber, strongly angular stems. Bracts green in lower portion, turning white distally. Tepals pale green externally, white within, labellum 2-lobed with broad central notch, yellow centrally.

Erect herb sometimes from a short horizontal rhizome, several to many stems from base. Corolla pale pink, nodding; stamens with deep pink ring around base of filaments; anthers cream-yellow.

Erect sedge to 50 cm tall from a horizontal pink rhizome. Spikelets pale brown.

Liana, with hooks on young branches; leaves glossy, dark green. Flowers pale orange. Fruits (collected by J. Massumbi) pale red, globose.

Shrub to 2.5 m, leaves vivid green; sharp thorns on older branches. Flowers in bud only, pale green.

Small tree, deep green leaves, copious white latex. Flowers creamy-white.

Several broad fronds from a woody rhizome, fronds c. 1-1.5 x 0.7 m.

Annual herb, much branched. Corolla pure white, calyx markedly winged.

Tree to 6 m tall with spreading branches, fruiting at 2 m. Fruits green, on widely divergent lateral branches with distichous leaves.

Tree to 3 m tall, leaves felty hairy, greyish-green beneath. Flowers yellow-green. Fruits globose, glossy, bright green.

Tree c. 7 m tall, dense very glossy foliage; leafy stems red-brown. Fruits green, glossy, within brown-green calyx.

Erect herb forming small clumps. Bracts green centrally, margins brown with pale ciliate hairs. Tepals pale yellow.