Records made by Hermenegildo Matimele

Young plants; not pilose, not winged, margin not serrate

Erect unbranched herb, up to 20 cm high; flowers yellow

Both flowers and roots yellow. Stem slightly sticky. Fairly common locally.

Small unbranched annual herbs 8-18 cm tall; flowers in terminal heads, c 1-1.5 cm in diameter; mauve-pink. Generally very common in the area

One specimen seen

Tree to 12 m, canopy spreading. Bark light grey, corky, fissured, very few spines. Twigs soft. Leaflets paired, rounded, blue-green, fleshy. Young pods long, lime-green, longitudinally-furrowed, woody inside. Local. Berlinia woodland to low forest, w

Herb to 50 cm tall, brownish old stems and pale greenish younger ones. Leaves serrated, flowers white, axillary. Plant occurring on a flat plain wooded grassland with Syzygium cordatum, Dicerocaryum forbesii, Hyphaene sp.

60-80 cm errect annual herb. Yellow capitula with 5-6 rays.

Ground fern with tufted fronds; scarce, on very wet peaty floor of swamp forest, dominated by Anthocleista grandiflora, Voacanga thouarsii, Antidesma vogeliana, Xylopia aethiopica and the fern Stenochlaena tenuifolia.-x000D- -x000D- Keys best to B. natalensis bu

Patch of low-branching trees to 4m high. Trunks heavily crusted with lichens. Buds large, ovoid; sometimes much smaller. Six pairs of leaflets. Rachis softly but sparsely hairy. Leaves glossy green, leathery. Some pink-flushed young growth. Pods woody, massive.

Tree to 10 m, spreading canopy, branching low. Bark rough, fissured grey. Leaves with 4 pinnae pairs. Young pods green, massive, woody, strongly ridged on one side

Tree to 10 m, spreading canopy, branching low. Bark rough, fissured grey. Leaves with 4 pinnae pairs. Young pods green, massive, woody, strongly ridged on one side. Dominant tree in Brachystegia woodland.

Tree to 8 m, with spreading canopy. Bark fissured, grey-brown. Leaves flushing yellow-green/brown. Flowers open, greenish.

Leaves hairy with a single inflorescence. Common in the area.

Erect annual herb to 30 cm. White flr. Locally common.

Herb with Yellow flowers. A few plants seen in the vicinity.

Creeping herb to 70 cm. Stem green but red at base. Very hairy lvs. Inflr 15 cm long, terminal. Growing with Zehneria.

This is also a first record of the species and subspecies from Mozambique. The subspecies is otherwise known only from Zimbabwe, South Africa and Swaziland. (Robert Faden pers. comm with Barbara Turpin, 2017).

Semi-deciduous tree to 9 m tall, bark grey, roughly flaking; occasional in mixed deciduous coastal woodland on sands.

Flower heads compact. Yellow fls.

Flower heads compact. Yellow fls.

Single individual locally seen. Shrub to 50 cm, green leaves, fruits blackish, flowers maroon, stems dark brown.

Leaves whorled, fls yellow with some brown streaks.

Common but not in clumps. Grass to 1.5 m tall, green leaves, with leaf tip dry, inflorescence hairy on the base, dark green inflorescence.

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

Shrub to 3 m or small tree to 6 m, fls white; locally frequent in degraded (logged) woodland-forest on sands.

Red-flowered form

Deciduous tree 4-6 m high; occasional in semi-deciduous woodland; flowers scarlet.

Erect, unbranched, annual herbs up to 18 cm high, flowers in the upper axils, together forming a terminal head; calyx broadly winged; corolla mauve-purple. Locally frequent

Evergreen tree to 6 m tall, branching ca. horizontal; on edge of riverine forest dominated by Syzygium guineense.

Shrub up to 4 m tall, branching horizontally, dark glossy leaves, dark green fruits

Scrambling shrub to 4 m tall, frequent in Parinari-Psorospermum plateau woodland on sandy soils.

Scrambling shrub up to c. 3 m tall with long branches; flowers in dense axillary heads; creamy-white. One specimen seen at collection site

Climber to 8 m high with white latex; in dry forest patch with a mosaic of deciduous mixed woodland on sandy soils. Occasional. Fruit gree, finely speckled with creamish dots.

In fruit

Semi-deciduous scrambling spiny shrub to 4 m tall, flowers yellow; in dense Combretum-dominated scrub or thicket.

Locally common. Grass to about 50 cm tall, leaves hairy beneath, leaf sheath brownish, inflorescence green.

Small annual herbs, up to 20 cm high; flowers small, white in terminal heads on stem and branches; fruit green with purple edgings, with 3-4 pointed appendages or lobes?. Very common at the collecting site forming extensive weedy colonies.

Slightly succulent herb. White fleshy roots. Leaves mostly basal, often reddish. Flowers in a terminal head, pale purple.

Small succulent green herb, 10-15 cm. Stamens brown, exposed. Locally common.

Robust scrambling shrub to 12 m tall, growing in riverine thicket, fls pale yellow. Only one plant seen. Reached from the road bridge.

Shrub to 2.5 m tall, too hairy green mature leaves, pale green younger leaves. Common locally

Common just above the tree line of Uapaca-Brachystegia woodland.

Older flowers

Lactiferous scrambling shrub, riverine, flowers white, fragrant.-x000D- -x000D- Gathered by M. Lotter.

Large robust evergreen shrub to 3 m high and 6 m across; in Adansonia-Hyphaene-Acacia-Sterculia woodland on alluvial soils on valley bottom (of Rovuma River).

Sessile lvs, dark green on top but pale on bottom. Slightly succulent. White latex. Pale stem. Green fls. Locally common.

Deciduous geophytic ginger, leafless, with 1-3 pale mauve flowers, tuber bright yellow within; in recently burnt mixed deciduous on sandy soils.

Erect perennial herb to 60 cm, fls mauve-pink with darker pink ring in centre. Stem is dark red. Thin lvs curved upwards, sessile, pale green. Sometimes multiple stems. Locally common.

Erect herb to 40 cm tall. Flrs light pink with dark pink streaks on petals and dark pink throat. Locally common.

Small slender single-stemmed deciduous tree to 5 m, infrutesence pink-purple; in mixed deciduous escarpment woodland on gravelly loam soils.

Dry Caesalp-dominated coastal forest. High in canopy.-x000D- Leaves opposite, very hairy. Flowers yellow with red-yellow stripes in throat. Petals extended. Latex present, clear, turning yellow. Uncommon.-x000D- Photos: 2928, 2929, 2930, Occurrence: uncommon

Tall evergreen tree with deeply fluted trunk, bark grey, smoothish to flaking; in riverine woodland.

Chopped tree to 4 m high, in secondary scrub in degraded/logged woodland/forest.

Small shrubby tree

Large evergreen tree to 15 m or more, hanging over river, component of riverine forest; lower bole massively buttressed like pages in a book.

Evergreen much-branched tree to 4 m tall; locally frequent component of understorey of swamp forest dominated by Anthocleista grandiflora, Voacanga thourasii, Antidesma vogeliana, Xylopia aethiopica and the fern Stenochlaena tenuifolia.

Pioneer tree to 6 m tall in cleared woodland on sandy soils.

Evergreen shrub to 5 m tall; occasional in shade in woodland/thicket on roadside.-x000D- -x000D- Group F of Flora Zambesiaca.

A small grass growing in clumps. Less than 10 cm tall. Common here.

Small slender tree to 6 m tall, in understorey of swamp forest, dominated by Anthocleista grandiflora, Voacanga thourasii, Antidesma vogeliana, Xylopia aethiopica and the fern Stenochlaena tenuifolia. Only one specimen seen.

Slender tree 6-7 m tall; in dense thicket or secondary scrub; flowers white-cream.

Small tree to 5m. Some small stilt roots at base. Leaves whorled, large, leathery. Few saplings around.

Annual herb to 3cm. Small mauve lipped flowers, 1 or 2 per plant. No leaves.

With a 5-lobed petal almost palmate. Purple flowers. Fairly common on these slopes.

Tiny leafless herbs, up to 5 cm high, with wiry flowering stems and 1-few flowers; corolla 2-lipped mauve and white, spurred.

Deciduous small tree 2.5-3 m high, flowers yellow-cream, bark smooth, pale creamy-yellow powdery; scarce in open mixed deciduous coastal woodland on sands on edge of dambo.

Erect several-stemmed shrub to 2 m tall; in drainage line in degraded woodland on sandy soils.

Large deciduous tree (with new leaves) to 22 m tall, bark smothish, thinly flaking in vertical strips; occasional in decidous woodland at base of low escarpment at edge of alluvial floodplain.

Lax open tree to 6 m tall, occasional in dense mixed thicket on sands.

Evergreen lactiferous tree to 10 m tall; fruit dark green with whitish spots which coalesce along the suture line; common in swamp forest dominated by Anthocleista grandiflora, Voacanga thourasii, Antidesma vogeliana, Xylopia aethiopica and the fern

The specimen in the images appears to be the first record from the MS division

Herb to 30 cm. 3-lobed yellow fls. Solitary. Locally common.

Erect herb to 10 cm. 3-lobed yellow flr. Growing in clusters. Locally abundant