Records made by Penny English

Small bush just coming into leaf

Large clump growing in a Diospyros mespiliformis

Flowers 13-15 cm high

LOTS of them flowering. Most measured were about 13 cm tall, including the ones photographed a few weeks ago. Several were as tall as 15cm.

Four small plants, only one of which was starting to put out linear leaves. Small brownish yellow flowers on short stalks at ground level. Seems to attract flies, ants and several other bugs but no obvious smell to the plant. White latex present.

Large tree

This species was not listed by Burrows & Willis, Sabonet report 31, 2005.

About 25cm high. Some plants were just 3-4 stems, others looked quite bushy, with multiple, somewhat woody stems arising, from a central area, and branching several times. Very small leaves about 10-12mm long. On younger plants leaves seemed to clasp lower stem but on larger, more mature plants, the lower stems were bare. Tiny flowers about 3 mm across in leaf axils on distal portion of stems. Petals tipped with pale blue. Yellow in centre.

It grows in the shade as a small bushy plant not much more than 30cm high. The leaves are very dark green and the flowers grow out of bracts that arise at the leaf axils. There are 3 lower lobes with some patterning on the centre lobe, and a single upper lobe. The colour ranged from pale mauve to a darker mauve in some specimens.

Plants growing in small clumps about 15-20cm tall at most. Stems squarish and hairy. Flowers of some plants were in shades of pink, while others were more shades of purple. The leaves were paired, hairy, and ranged from a roundish ovate to elliptic. When crushed they initially smelled quite strongly of lemon but this faded quickly to a generally herb-like smell.

There were several single stemmed plants averaging about 30cm tall. One had multiple very pale pink flowers growing along its stem. Three others had only one or two pink flowers. The lower lobe has a small purplish mark. No leaves evident. Area dry with lots of surface quartzite stones.

Up to about 20 cm tall. Leaves were just beginning to grow - generally 3 per plant. Flowers light mauve with a darker centre.