Records determined by Maggs

Determinations: 183

The following is a list of the records determined by Maggs in species name order.

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NoSpeciesRecord dateRecorder(s)Coll.Det.Conf.HerbariaHabitatLocationLoc code(s) Outing codePlanted code Country QDSGrid ref.FZ DivAlt. (m)NotesLatLongLoc Acc Code
95535Abrus precatorius subsp. africanus06 Mar 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1974 GL Maggs WIND
Woodland with dense grass underlayer.Caprivi: Liansulu Island.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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

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93940Abutilon hirtum23 Feb 1987MAN Müller
E Irish
MAN Müller 3168 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo, main road to Liambezi from Bukalo.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C20

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

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94582Abutilon hirtum16 Feb 1989GL Maggs
GL Maggs 728 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: 26 km to Ngoma from Bukalo - mixed woodland.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D30

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.

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95536Acacia arenaria06 Mar 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1978 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Lianshulu island, in woodland with dense grass underlayer. Siambisso.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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

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94305Acacia ataxacantha24 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1722 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo. Maningi Manzi, along the water edge.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C30

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

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94776Acacia ataxacantha20 Mar 1989GL Maggs
GL Maggs 750 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Impilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3930

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.

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95538Acacia hebeclada subsp. chobiensis06 Mar 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1980 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Lianshulu island, in woodland with dense grass underlayer. Siambisso.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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.

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95539Acacia nigrescens02 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 883 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: East Caprivi. Mvubu Camp, on bank of Kwando River back-water, near Balelwa.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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.

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95540Acacia sieberiana var. woodii06 Mar 1982MAN Müller
E Irish
MAN Müller 1983 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Siambisso. Lianshulu, in vicinity of camp.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

Tree; Notes: Single stemmed trees up to 8 meter high. Stem has a typical yellow bark. Common in area.

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95039Acalypha brachiata16 Jun 1971JWH Giess
JWH Giess 11422 C Mannheimer GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: At Dikundu (19.2 km south of Andara). In grass stand, bank of omuramba.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1821A20

Notes: Many-stemmed 'forb' up to 50 cm high and 1 m in diameter.

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95541Acanthosicyos naudinianus02 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 892 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Lisalimezi.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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..

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93943Acanthospermum hispidum05 May 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 423 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Lisikili, south-east of Katima Mulilo.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C20

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)

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94586Acrotome angustifolia10 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 198 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Near Ngoma: in Terminalia sericea woodland.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D30

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.

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95041Acrotome angustifolia22 Mar 1987GL Maggs
GL Maggs 74 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Kavango: near Andara Mission.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1821A20

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.

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94012Afrosolen schimperi12 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 234 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Forestry Reserve, west of Katima Mulilo.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C2 0

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.

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93184Albizia harveyi21 Oct 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 575 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Middle West Caprivi - mixed semi-deciduous woodland after a burn.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722D30

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.

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94588Albizia harveyi01 Mar 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1853 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Kalembeza, on the banks of the river. Katima Mulilo.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D30

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

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93948Albizia versicolor28 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1821 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Next to main road, 20 km from Muyako on road to Bukalo.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C20

10 m high; Tree; Notes: Single-stemmed tree 10 m high. Tree covered with green pods.

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94590Aloe zebrina01 Mar 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1863 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katimo Mulilo. Lusikili.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D3 0

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.

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93951Ampelocissus obtusata subsp. kirkiana22 Feb 1983MAN Müller
E Irish
MAN Müller 3153 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi, Katima Mulilo: 20 Kilometers West of Katima Mulilo.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C20

Scrambler. Fruit: red grape bunch.

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95543Ampelocissus obtusata subsp. kirkiana04 Mar 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1963 GL Maggs WIND
: Siambisso: Lianshulu; growing next to main road.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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93186Aneilema johnstonii14 Dec 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 648 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: West Caprivi - East of Chetto base in Baphia - Bauhinia shrub-veld.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722D30

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.

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94309Antidesma venosum24 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1707 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo. Maningi Manzi, along the water edge.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C30

6 m high; Tree; Notes: Single-stemmed trees, 6 m high. Leaves underneath velvety-brown. Berries purple.

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95545Asystasia intrusa21 Dec 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 672 GL Maggs WIND
Growing on river/stream bank.Caprivi, Katima Mulilo: Balelwa: banks of channel.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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.

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93193Baphia massaiensis subsp. obovata var. obovata21 Oct 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 564 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Middle West Caprivi.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722D30

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.

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94471Baphia massaiensis subsp. obovata var. obovata27 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1795 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo. Next to main road on the way to Nature Conservation offices.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D10

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

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95546Bauhinia macrantha02 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 893 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Lisalimezi. In woodland.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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.

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94313Bauhinia urbaniana03 May 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 393 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: 1 km along turn-off to Chinchimane from National Road.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C30

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.

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94600Berchemia discolor10 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 211 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Near Ngoma: in Terminalia sericea woodland.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D30

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)

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95547Berchemia discolor02 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 881 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: East Caprivi. Mvubu Camp, on bank of Kwando River back-water, near Balelwa. Along river.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

Tree; Notes: Lush, medium sized tree. Fruits eaten; chinjere (KWE) fruits eaten fresh or made into cooldrink. Ethnobotanical Voucher specimen: Muzinzila (Lozi). Fairly abundant.

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93196Bobgunnia madagascariensis21 Oct 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 582 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Middle West Caprivi.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722D30

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.

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94314Boscia albitrunca24 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1720 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo. Maningi Manzi.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C30

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

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95548Boscia albitrunca01 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 873 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: East Caprivi. Mvubu Camp, on bank of Kwando River back water, near Balelwa.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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.

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93963Bridelia cathartica subsp. melanthesoides05 May 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 417 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Maningimanzi, south-east of Katima Mulilo.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C20

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.

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94316Capparis tomentosa24 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1710 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo. Maningi Manzi.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C30

Shrub; Notes: Twiner/shrub forming a dense thicket. Fruit red. Along the water edge.

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95081Cardiospermum halicacabum var. halicacabum10 Feb 1988E Hilbert
E Hilbert 129 GL Maggs WIND
Okavango, Rundu District: Kavango: Omaramba Omatako, 20 km N of Ncaute.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1821A20

Climber; Notes: In shrubby riverine vegetation.

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95635Cardiospermum halicacabum var. halicacabum15 Feb 1989GL Maggs
GL Maggs 716 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Lupala Island - forest at ranger station.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823B30

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.

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94809Cassia abbreviata subsp. beareana20 Mar 1989GL Maggs
GL Maggs 748 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Impilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3930

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.

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94379Ceratophyllum demersum var. demersum26 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1779 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C40

Notes: Waterplant in Lake Liambezi.

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94606Chamaecrista mimosoides10 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 197 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Near Ngoma: in Terminalia sericea woodland.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D30

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.

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94609Chamaecrista mimosoides09 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 197 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Near Ngoma.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D30

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.

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95552Chamaecrista mimosoides21 Dec 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 665 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Balelwa - banks of channel.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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.

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95554Chrysopogon nigritanus02 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 890 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: East Caprivi. Mvubu Camp, on bank of Kwando River back-water, near Balelwa.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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.

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95555Citropsis daweana02 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 877 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Eastern Caprivi: Mvubu Camp, on bank of Kwando River back water, near Balelwa.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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

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93969Cleome hirta12 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 230 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Forestry Reserve, west of Katima Mulilo.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C20

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.

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94445Coleus lasianthus26 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1772 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Lake Liambezi at eastern side of lake, in association with Colophospermum mopane.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C40

Herb; Notes: Perennial semi succulent herb, semi-prostrate, 40 cm high. Flowers purple. Common.

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94611Colophospermum mopane10 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 200 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Near Ngoma: in Terminalia sericea woodland.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D30

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.

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95557Colophospermum mopane02 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 887 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: E Caprivi. Mvubu camp, on bank of Kwando River back-water, near Balelwa.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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.

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93970Combretum apiculatum subsp. leutweinii17 Oct 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 546 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo: Nature Conservation Offices: on banks of Zambezi River.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C20

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.

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94612Combretum apiculatum subsp. apiculatum16 Feb 1989GL Maggs
GL Maggs 729 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: 26 km to Ngoma from Bukalo - mixed woodland.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D30

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.

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95558Combretum hereroense subsp. hereroense02 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 889 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: East Caprivi. Mvubu Camp, on bank of Kwando river back water, near Balelwa.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

Tree; Notes: Medium to tall tree, plentiful.

-18.12500023.3750002
94387Combretum imberbe27 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1798 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo, close to Nature Conservation Offices.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C40

15 m high; Tree; Notes: Single-stemmed tree, 15 m high.

-17.87500024.3750004
95559Combretum imberbe02 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 884 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: East Caprivi. Mvubu Camp, on bank of Kwando River back-water, near Balelwa.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

Tree; Notes: Tall tree, plentiful. Ethnobotanical voucher specimen. Muzwili (Lozi), Muvimba (Subiya). Wood for poles (better than mopane), also for carving and fuel.

-18.12500023.3750002
93209Combretum molle21 Oct 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 581 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Middle West Caprivi.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722D30

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.

-17.87500022.6250005
93972Combretum mossambicense17 Oct 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 547 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo: Nature Conservation Offices: on banks of Zambezi River.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C20

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.

-17.62500024.3750005
94388Combretum mossambicense22 Feb 1983MAN Müller
E Irish
MAN Müller E Irish 3170 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Main road to Liambezi from Bucalo.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C40

3 m high; Scrambler; Notes: Scrambler, 3 m high. Flowers white.

-17.87500024.3750004
95560Combretum mossambicense02 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 882 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: East Caprivi. Mvubu Camp, on bank of Kwando River back water, near Balelwa.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

Shrub; Notes: Straggling shrub. Ethnobotanical Voucher Specimen: Sirutombola Lozi) - no known uses.

-18.12500023.3750002
93974Combretum zeyheri22 Feb 1983MAN Müller
E Irish
MAN Müller 3169 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Main road to Liambezi from Bukalo.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C20

3.5 m high; Tree; Notes: Single-stemmed tree. 3.5 m high.

-17.62500024.3750005
94389Combretum zeyheri24 Mar 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1956 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo, at Nature Conservation Camp.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C40

5 m high; Tree; Notes: Single-stemmed tree, 5 m high.

-17.87500024.3750004
94321Commelina erecta24 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1712 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo. Maningi Manzi, along the water edge.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C30

Notes: Semi-prostrate annual. Flowers blue. Corr. nom.: SB 8.2003.

-17.87500024.1250004
94819Commiphora africana21 Mar 1989GL Maggs
GL Maggs 766 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Impilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3930

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.

-17.78330025.2075005
94392Corallocarpus bainesii28 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1818 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: 17 km from Muyako on road to Bakalo.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C40

Notes: Twiner in Ximenia americana. Fruits red when ripe.

-17.87500024.3750004
94625Cordia monoica10 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 212 GL Maggs WIND
On termite mound. In woodland.Caprivi: Near Ngoma: In Terminalia sericea woodland.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D3 0

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.

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94324Craterostigma plantagineum15 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 279 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: 7 km along turn-off to Chinchimane from National Road.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C30

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.

-17.87500024.1250004
95562Crotalaria flavicarinata04 Mar 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1962 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo District. Lianshulu, growing next to main road.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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

-18.12500023.3750002
93977Crotalaria podocarpa12 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 238 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Forestry Reserve, west of Katima Mulilo.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C20

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.

-17.62500024.3750005
93978Crotalaria sphaerocarpa subsp. sphaerocarpa12 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 228 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Forestry Reserve, west of Katima Mulilo.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C20

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.

-17.62500024.3750005
94560Crotalaria sphaerocarpa subsp. sphaerocarpa09 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 168 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Nsundwa?: S. of Schuckmannsberg:- marshy plain along river.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D20

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.

-17.62500024.8750004
93980Croton megalobotrys17 Oct 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 545 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo - Nature Conservation Offices: on banks of Zambezi River.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C20

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.

-17.62500024.3750005
95566Croton megalobotrys02 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 878 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: East Caprivi. Mvubu Camp, on bank of Kwando river back-water, near Balelwa.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

Tree; Notes: Medium-sized tree in riverine woodland. Ethnobotanical Voucher specimen. Mutuwatuwa (Lozi): roots used in various remedies, also fish poison.

-18.12500023.3750002
95118Cucumis anguria var. longaculeatus 21 Apr 1994GL Maggs
L Guarino
GL Maggs 1039 GL Maggs WIND
Okavango, Rundu District: Site 3: 203 km east of Rundu along main, tarred road to Bagani.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1821A21080

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.

-18.12500021.3750002
93215Cycnium tubulosum23 Oct 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 594 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: West Caprivi (middle): grassy omuramba.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722D30

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.

-17.87500022.6250005
94561Cycnium tubulosum09 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 165 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Nsundwa ?: S. of Schuckmannsburg:- marshy plain along river.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D20

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.

-17.62500024.8750004
95639Cycnium tubulosum17 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 302 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Nkasa Island: forest 'Island' on bank of Linyandi River.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823B30

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.

-18.37500023.6250002
94832Dalbergia melanoxylon21 Mar 1989GL Maggs
GL Maggs 765 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Impilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3930

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.

-17.78330025.2075005
93219Dicerocaryum eriocarpum14 Dec 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 649 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: West Caprivi - east of Chetto base in Baphia - Bauhinia shrub-veld.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722D30

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.

-17.87500022.6250005
94329Dichrostachys cinerea24 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1723 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Maningi Manzi, along the water edge. Katima Mulilo.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C30

2.5 m high; Shrub; Notes: Slender, many-stemmed shrubs, 2.5 m high.

-17.87500024.1250004
93756Dioscorea asteriscus03 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 903 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: West Caprivi. Kwando Camp ('Doppies'): on dune abutting onto flood-plain.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1723C40

Notes: Twiner in undergrowth. Leaves cordiform, thin, glabrous. Sterile material - ethnobotanical voucher specimen. Dinga (Kwe) = tuber eaten once bark is removed.

-17.87500023.3750005
94330Diospyros chamaethamnus03 May 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 394 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: 1 km along turn-off to Chinchimane from national road. Mixed woodland.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C30

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.

-17.87500024.1250004
94398Diospyros mespiliformis26 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1788 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Lake Liambezi, next to lake.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C40

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.

-17.87500024.3750004
93757Dipcadi glaucum03 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 910 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: West Caprivi. Kwando Camp ('Doppies'): on dune abutting flood-plain.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1723C40

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!).

-17.87500023.3750005
93222Diplorhynchus condylocarpon21 Oct 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 579 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Middle West Caprivi.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722D30

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.

-17.87500022.6250005
94497Distephanus divaricatus10 May 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 440 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: 30 Km south of Katima Mulilo on Bukalo Road.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D10

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.

-17.62500024.6250004
95551Elaeodendron transvaalense06 Mar 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1979 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Siambisso: Lianshulu island, in woodland with dense grass underlayer.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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

-18.12500023.3750002
94624Erigeron bonariensis30 Nov 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 870 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: East Caprivi. Sila Village, dry floodplain near Ibbu.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D30

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.

-17.87500024.6250004
93232Eriosema pauciflorum21 Oct 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 571 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Middle West Caprivi - mixed semi-deciduous woodland after a burn.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722D30

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.

-17.87500022.6250005
95624Erlangea misera25 Oct 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 626 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Popa Falls, on east bank of Okavango, north of Bagani.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1821B10

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.

-18.10220021.6556004
93760Erythrococca menyharthii03 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 911 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: West Caprivi. Kwando Camp ('Doppies'): on dune abutting.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1723C40

subshrub; Notes: Erect, bushy subshrub. Leaves ovate, apices gradually tapering, tomentose. Ethnobotanical Voucher Specimen: ninaghovo (Kwe) - leaves cooked and eaten like spinach.

-17.87500023.3750005
95573Erythrococca menyharthii21 Dec 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 676 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Balelwa - banks of channel.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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.

-18.12500023.3750002
95574Euclea divinorum02 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 879 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: East Caprivi: Mvubu Camp, on bank of Kwando River back-water, near Balelwa.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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).

-18.12500023.3750002
94403Eulophia livingstoneana27 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1810 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Lake Liambezi, next to main road.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C4 0

Herb; Notes: Perennial herb with underground rhizomes. Forming dense stand.

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93994Evolvulus alsinoides var. alsinoides05 May 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 422 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Lisikili, south-east of Katima Mulilo.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C20

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.

-17.62500024.3750005
93995Ficus burkei21 Mar 1987GL Maggs
GL Maggs 64 GL Maggs WIND
Rundu District: Katima Mulilo. On bank of Zambesi River at Katima.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C20

Notes: Tall tree, 8-10 m high. Leaves narrowly ovate, glossy, glabrous. Figs small, plentiful, clustered on branches. Corr. nom.: S. Rgheimer 5.2007.

-17.62500024.3750005
94646Ficus pygmaea30 Nov 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 868 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: East Caprivi. Sila Village, dry flood-plain near Ibbu.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D30

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.

-17.87500024.6250004
95575Ficus pygmaea21 Dec 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 658 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Balelwa - banks of channel.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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.

-18.12500023.3750002
95577Flueggea virosa subsp. virosa21 Dec 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 685 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Balelwa - banks of channel.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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.

-18.12500023.3750002
93996Friesodielsia obovata05 May 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 416 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Maningimanzi, south-east of Katima Mulilo.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C2 0

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.

5
94335Friesodielsia obovata24 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1721 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Maningi Manzi, along the water edge.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C3 0

Tree; Notes: Slender shrub or twiner sometimes forming a thicket. Fruits borne in clusters.

4
94409Gloriosa superba23 Feb 1983MAN Müller
E Irish
MAN Müller E Irish 3171 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo: main road to Liambenzi from Bukalo.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C40

Notes: Initially yellow with maroon tips, changing to maroon. Scrambler. Corr. nom.: SB 8.2003.

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94508Gloriosa superba27 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1803 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo: 15 km from Bukalo, on turn-off to Muyako, along main road.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D10

Notes: Twiner in Ximenia americana. Flowers initially yellow with reddish brown tinge and gradually change to a rusty brown. Corr. nom.: SB 8.2003.

-17.62500024.6250004
93240Grewia avellana13 Dec 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 639 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: West Caprivi - east of Chetto.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722D30

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.

-17.87500022.6250005
93999Grewia bicolor22 Feb 1983MAN Müller
E Irish
MAN Müller 3154 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo. 20 km west of Katima Mulilo.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C20

Shrub; Notes: Shrublets, 1.2 m high. Much branched. Flower: yellow. Common. Fruit: berries.

-17.62500024.3750005
94849Grewia bicolor20 Mar 1989GL Maggs
GL Maggs 745 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3930

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.

-17.78330025.2075005
94412Grewia flavescens var. flavescens27 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1791 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo, next to main road on the way to Nature Conservation Offices.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C40

2.4 m high; Shrub; Notes: Slender, many stemmed shrubs, 2.4 m high. Flowers yellow. Stems square.

-17.87500024.3750004
94850Grewia flavescens var. flavescens21 Mar 1989GL Maggs
GL Maggs 773 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Impilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3930

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.

-17.78330025.2075005
95582Grewia olukondae21 Dec 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 674 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Balelwa - banks of channel.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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.

-18.12500023.3750002
94001Grewia pachycalyx05 May 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 415 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Maningimanzi, south-east of Katima Mulilo.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C20

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.

-17.62500024.3750005
94337Grewia pachycalyx24 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1717 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo. Maningi Manzi, along the water edge.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C30

Notes: Slender shrub, 2.5 m high. Flowers white.

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94510Grewia retinervis10 May 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 437 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: 15 km south of Bukalo along Ngoma road; in Terminalia sericea woodland.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D10

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.

-17.62500024.6250004
94659Grewia retinervis10 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 205 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Near Ngoma: In Terminalia sericea woodland.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D30

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.

-17.87500024.6250004
94511Heliotropium ovalifolium09 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 183 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi, Katima Mulilo: Grassy malapa near loma.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D10

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.

-17.62500024.6250004
94513Hermannia modesta09 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 181 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Grassy malapo near Ioma.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D10

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.

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93245Hibiscus caesius21 Oct 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 568 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Middle West Caprivi.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722D30

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.

-17.87500022.6250005
94514Hibiscus sidiformis01 Mar 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1841 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Bukalo to Lisikili.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D10

25 cm high; Herb; Notes: Annual herbs, 25 cm high. Flowers yellow.

-17.62500024.6250004
94339Hippocratea africana var. richardiana01 Jul 1997RH Archer
RH Archer s.n. GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo: Maningi Manzi, along the water edge.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C30

Climber; Notes: Twiner in trees. Fruit 3 - lobbed.

-17.87500024.1250004
94663Hippocratea buchananii28 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1824 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo: 20 kilometers from Lake Laimbezi on way to main road. Ngoma Bukalo - Katima Mulilo.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D30

Climber; Notes: Twiner in trees and shrubs. Fruit 3 - locular.

-17.87500024.6250004
94008Indigofera charlieriana subsp. charlieriana var. charlieriana12 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 227 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Forestry Reserve, west of Katima Mulilo.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C20

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.

-17.62500024.3750005
93775Indigofera flavicans03 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 909 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: West Caprivi. Kwando Camp ('Doppies'): on dune abutting onto flood-plain.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1723C40

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.

-17.87500023.3750005
94566Jasminum fluminense09 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 173 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Nsundwa ?: South of Schuckmannsburg:- marshy plain along river.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D20

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.

-17.62500024.8750004
94522Kedrostis foetidissima06 May 1995GL Maggs
GL Maggs 224b GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: On way from Bukalo to Schuckmannsburg. On outskirts of big vlei with Sesbania and Ficus.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D10

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.

-17.62500024.6250004
94425Kirkia acuminata26 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1787 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Lake Liambezi, next to lake.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C40

Notes: Only a few trees. Also the only place where I found them.

-17.87500024.3750004
94567Kohautia caespitosa subsp. brachyloba09 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 167 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Nsundwa?: South of Schuckmannsburg:- marshy plain along river.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D20

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.

-17.62500024.8750004
95591Kohautia caespitosa subsp. brachyloba21 Dec 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 656 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Balelwa - banks of channel.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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.

-18.12500023.3750002
94568Kosteletzkya buettneri09 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 164 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Nsundwa ?: S. of Schuckmannsburg:- marshy plain along river.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D20

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.

-17.62500024.8750004
94342Lannea discolor24 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1708 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo: Maningi Manzi, along the water edge.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C30

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

-17.87500024.1250004
95592Lannea gossweileri var. gossweileri28 Nov 1991AB Cunningham
AB Cunningham 2911 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Minor: Liansulu. Precise: Lizauli.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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

-18.12500023.3750002
94674Limeum fenestratum var. fenestratum10 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 209 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Near Ngoma: in Terminalia sericea woodland.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D30

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.

-17.87500024.6250004
94680Lipotriche scandens subsp. dregei21 Mar 1989GL Maggs
GL Maggs 723 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: 7 km to Ngoma from Bukalo, along road side.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D30

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.

-17.87500024.6250004
94868Markhamia zanzibarica20 Mar 1989GL Maggs
GL Maggs 743 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Impilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3930

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.

-17.78330025.2075005
93251Merremia tridentata subsp. angustifolia22 Oct 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 589 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Middle West Caprivi.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722D30

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.

-17.87500022.6250005
94682Momordica balsamina30 Nov 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 869 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: East Caprivi: Sila village, dry floodplain near Ibbu.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D30

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.

-17.87500024.6250004
93784Mundulea sericea03 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 902 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: East Caprivi. Kongola, along main road to Katima Mulilo.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1723C40

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.

-17.87500023.3750005
94018Nesaea dinteri subsp. elata10 May 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 438 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: 30 km south of Katima Mulilo on Bukalo road:- on banks of waterhole.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C20

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.

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95596Nidorella resedifolia subsp. resedifolia06 Mar 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1989 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Lianshulu, in vicinity of camp.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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

-18.12500023.3750002
94435Nymphaea lotus26 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1777 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Lake Liambezi.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C40

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

-17.87500024.3750004
95598Ochna pulchra subsp. pulchra02 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 898 GL Maggs WIND
Okavango, Rundu District: Lisalimezi - mopane woodland.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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.

-18.12500023.3750002
95599Ocimum americanum28 Nov 1991AB Cunningham
AB Cunningham 2924 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: East Caprivi. Lizauli, northern section.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

Notes: Baikaia woodland. Sandy soil type. Used traditionally as perfume. Mbukushu 'dingambe'.

-18.12500023.3750002
94351Oncoba spinosa24 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1713 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo. Maningi Manzi, along the water edge.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C30

Tree; Notes: Single-stemmed tree, up to 8 m high. Fruits green. Common.

-17.87500024.1250004
94573Oxygonum alatum var. alatum09 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 175 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Nsundwa ?: south of Schuckmannsburg:- marshy plain along river.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D20

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.

-17.62500024.8750004
95266Ozoroa schinzii10 Feb 1988E Hilbert
E Hilbert 131 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Rundu district. 30 km north of Ncaute.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1821A2 0

Notes: In savanna Forest.

2
94688Peltophorum africanum10 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 206 GL Maggs WIND
in Terminalia sericea woodland.Caprivi: Near Ngoma. 0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D30

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.

-17.87500024.5750004
95601Peltophorum africanum02 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 900 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Lisalimezi.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

Notes: Mopane woodland. Tall tree, 10 m high. Leaves bipinnate. Flowers yellow, profuse. Ethnobotanical oucher specimen: musilo (Lozi, Subiya) - no known uses.

-18.12500023.3750002
93262Philenoptera violacea23 Oct 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 599 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: West Caprivi (middle): grassy omuramba.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722D30

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.

-17.87500022.6250005
94024Philenoptera violacea17 Oct 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 549 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo: Nature Conservation Offices: on banks of Zambezi River.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C20

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.

-17.62500024.3750005
95594Philenoptera violacea02 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 888 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: East Caprivi. Mvubu Camp, on bank of Kwando River back-water, near Balelwa.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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.

-18.12500023.3750002
95602Phyla nodiflora var. nodiflora06 Mar 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1987 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Lianshulu, in vicinity of camp.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

Herb; Notes: Perennial, semi-prostrate herbs. Flowers white. Common along the edge of water.

-18.12500023.3750002
95290Pogonarthria squarrosa14 Apr 1991F Du Plessis
F Du Plessis 41 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Kavango.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1821A20

Graminoid; Notes: Deep sand soil. Plant features grass.

-18.12500021.3750002
94358Ruspolia australis26 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1784 GL Maggs WIND
Growing next to lake.Caprivi, Katima Mulilo: Liambezi, at edge of Lake.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C30

Perennial herb, 1.20 m high. Flowers red.

-17.87500024.1250004
94359Salvinia molesta26 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1775 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Lake Liambezi.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C30

Hydrophyte; Notes: Waterplant.

-17.87500024.1250004
95319Sesbania cinerascens17 Mar 1987GL Maggs
GL Maggs 55 GL Maggs WIND
Okavango, Rundu District: Landbou Rest Camp along Okavango River, W of Andara.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1821A20

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

-18.12500021.3750002
95610Solanum campylacanthum 'incanum type'04 Mar 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1966 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Lianshulu, open grassland.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

50 cm high; Herb; Notes: Perennial herb, 50 cm high. Flowers purple.

-18.12500023.3750002
94707Solanum tettense var. renschii10 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 214 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Near Ngoma: In Terminalia sericea woodland.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D30

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.

-17.87500024.6250004
93274Striga bilabiata23 Oct 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 596 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: West Caprivi (middle): grassy omuramba.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722D30

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.

-17.87500022.6250005
94037Striga gesnerioides22 Feb 1983MAN Müller
E Irish
MAN Müller 3141 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo Forestry area.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C20

25 cm high; Parasite; Notes: Root parasite. 25 cm high. Flowers mauve.

-17.62500024.3750005
94456Strychnos cocculoides22 Feb 1983MAN Müller
E Irish
MAN Müller E Irish 3176 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo. On main road to Liambezi from Bucalo.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C40

2.5 m high; Tree; Notes: Single-stemmed tree, 2.5 m high. Very sparse thorny (thorns in pairs).

-17.87500024.3750004
94900Strychnos madagascariensis21 Mar 1989GL Maggs
GL Maggs 764 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Impilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3930

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.

-17.78330025.2075005
95612Strychnos potatorum02 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 886 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: East Caprivi. Mvubu Camp, on bank of Kwando River back-water, near Balelwa.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

Shrub; Notes: Straggling shrub. Leaves ovate, paired. Ethnobotanical Voucher specimen. Lozi: 'Mulombelombe'. Fruits used for washing.

-18.12500023.3750002
94543Syzygium guineense subsp. guineense01 Mar 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1847 GL Maggs MAN Müller WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo: Lusikili, growing along edge of lake.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D10

Tree; Notes: Single-stemmed trees 5-6 m high. Leaves glossy leathery. Ripe fruits reddish-purple.

-17.62500024.6250004
95615Tapinanthus oleifolius06 Mar 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1995 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Siambisso. Lianshulu, in vicinity.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

Notes: Parasite on Maytenus species.

-18.12500023.3750002
94043Tephrosia caerulea subsp. otaviensis12 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 240 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Forestry Reserve, west of Katima Mulilo.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C20

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.

-17.62500024.3750005
94457Tephrosia caerulea subsp. otaviensis26 Feb 1982MAN Müller
E Irish
MAN Müller E Irish 1770 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo. Lake Liambezi.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C40

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

-17.87500024.3750004
94544Terminalia brachystemma subsp. brachystemma27 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1794 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo, next to main road on the way to Nature conservation offices.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D10

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

-17.62500024.6250004
94717Terminalia mollis16 Feb 1989GL Maggs
GL Maggs 730 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: 26 km to Ngoma from Bukalo - mixed woodland.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D30

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.

-17.87500024.6250004
94459Terminalia sericea28 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1831 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo, outside Nature Conservation camp, along main road.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C40

6 m high; Tree; Notes: Single-stemmed tree, 6 m high. Leaves greyish. Pods pale pink.

-17.87500024.3750004
94546Terminalia sericea27 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1793 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo, next to main road on way to Nature Conservation offices.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D10

Tree; Notes: Single-stemmed tree, 3.5 - 7 m high. Leaves greyish-green. Quite common.

-17.62500024.6250004
95617Terminalia sericea02 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 896 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Lisalimezi - mopane woodland.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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.

-18.12500023.3750002
93284Tragia okanyua21 Oct 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 572 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Middle West Caprivi.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722D30

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.

-17.87500022.6250005
94551Tricliceras lobatum01 Mar 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1840 GL Maggs MAN Müller WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo: Bukalo to Lusikili.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D10

20 cm high; Herb; Notes: Slender annual herb, 20 cm high. Flowers yellow.

-17.62500024.6250004
93805Vangueria cyanescens03 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 904 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Western Caprivi. Kwando Camp ('Doppies'): on dune abutting onto flood-plain.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1723C40

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

-17.87500023.3750005
94725Vangueria infausta subsp. infausta10 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 202 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Near Ngoma.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D30

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.

-17.87500024.6250004
93806Vangueriopsis lanciflora03 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 908 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: West Caprivi. Kwando Camp ('Doppies'): on dune abutting onto floodplain.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1723C40

Tree; Notes: Small tree. Leaves elliptic, densely tomentose. Stipules deltoid with long tapering apices, about 1 cm long. Fruits eaten.

-17.87500023.3750005
94727Vangueriopsis lanciflora01 Mar 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1860 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Kalembeza, on the banks of river.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D30

3 m high; Tree; Notes: Slender small single-stemmed trees, 3.0 m high. Fruits 1.5 - 2 cm in diameter.

-17.87500024.6250004
95619Vernonia amygdalina21 Dec 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 684 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Balelwa, banks of channel.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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.

-18.12500023.3750002
94463Vigna oblongifolia var. oblongifolia26 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1774 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo. In Lake Liambezi.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C40

Notes: Creeper in reeds. Flowers yellow.

-17.87500024.3750004
94051Ximenia americana var. microphylla10 May 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 441 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: 30 km south of Katima Mulilo on Bukalo road: forest island on termite mound.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C20

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.

-17.62500024.3750005
94730Ximenia americana var. microphylla10 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 204 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Near Ngoma: In Terminalia sericea woodland.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D30

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.

-17.87500024.6250004
95621Ximenia americana var. microphylla02 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 880 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Eastern Caprivi. Mvubu Camp, on bank of Kwando River back water, near Balelwa.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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.

-18.12500023.3750002
93290Ximenia caffra var. caffra13 Dec 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 643 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: West Caprivi - east of Chetto.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722D30

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.

-17.87500022.6250005
93516Zehneria marlothii23 Apr 1994GL Maggs
L Guarino
GL Maggs 1044 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: East Caprivi: (Site 5) Singalamwe, floodplain below village at Birkinstock's camp.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1723C2980

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.

-17.62500023.3750005
94466Ziziphus mucronata27 Feb 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1799 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Katima Mulilo, growing on the banks (southern) of the Zambezi river.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C40

8 m high; Tree; Notes: Single-stemmed tree, 8 m high.

-17.87500024.3750004
94732Ziziphus mucronata10 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs 203 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Near Ngoma: in Terminalia sericea woodland.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D30

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.

-17.87500024.6250004
95623Ziziphus mucronata02 Dec 1990GL Maggs
GL Maggs 897 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: Lisalimezi - mopane woodland.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1823A20

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.

-18.12500023.3750002
94733Zornia milneana16 Feb 1989GL Maggs
GL Maggs 719 GL Maggs WIND
Caprivi: 7 km to Ngoma from Bukalo, mopane woodland along roadside.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D30

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.

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