Collections made by Mike Bingham

Trailing herb. Flower.

Tips of fronds take root when they touch ground

Aquatic with floating stems.

Flower

Flower.

Flower.

With Salix and Phragmites.

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

Fruit attract green pigeons.

Weed in cultivation.

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

Lake Kariba. Open woodland.

Forming large tufts.

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

Cultivated from seed obtained from the Zimbabwe National Botanic Gardens.

Corona green.

Flowers in bud

Small tree.

Weed.

Ruderal.

Suffrutex.

Flower

Flower

Small tree, 6 m high, with straight bole; bark bluish, peeling off in papery strips.

Fruit. Bole slightly fluted.

Tree on termite mound.

Fruit.

Small tree, 4 m high, tending to be scandent. Fruit.

Temporary pool

Temporary pool

Rooted in mud.

This record was originally mistakenly believed to be Crinum graminicola but that species is restricted to South Africa and does not occur in Zambia.

Tree in woodland. Flowers pink.

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

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

Occasional; shrub; to 1.5 m; stems early woody; herbaceous; stems light purple; heteroblastic; buds yellow to green; base of calyx purple to green on lobes; standard deep purple-red; streaked to edge where it is yellow; keel green; wings yellow.

Shrub to 1.5 m tall and spreading to 2 m wide; hairs silvery on stems; calyx green tinged and speckled in deep red; standard bright yellow inside with red splotch at base on back; wings orange-yellow; keel green with red specks and deeper red at beak.

Shrub, 1.5m tall.

Erect annual.

Annual weed.

Weed of cultivation.

In bays, forming colonies at water's edge.

Weed in maize garden.

Semi-aquatic.

Over flowering97

2m. tall

large sedge in stream bed

K, det D.Simpson as Cyperus sp

large sedge in stream bed

Soft annual with very small roots.

Widespread and common; twiner; prostrate and climbing; stems tinged in red; calyx green; standard green outside, red at tip to light green inside; wings light purple to white at claw; keel light green to white.

Evergreen tree, 8 meter tall, early flowering specimen.

Dambo edge fallow.

Small tree in termite mound thicket.

Aquatic.

Cultivated from seed, ex Chilanga.

Small tree, 5 m tall.

On Julbernardia globiflora. Tube pale orange; other parts greenish white.

Common weed and ruderal.

Flower.

Determined as Ethulia conyzoides

Determined as Ethulia conyzoides

Determined as Ethulia conyzoides

Small tree, mostly leafless, bark smooth, pale.

Small woodland tree.

Amongst rocks at high water level. Small tree.

Large shrub, 4 m high.

Large tree.

Tufted.

(NU: Material young and lacking the mature achenes needed for full confirmation of this idenification).

Weed

Tree; widespread; in Kalahari woodland; to 18 m tall; leaves shiny green; flowers cream; anthers brown.

Flowers pale mauve.

Climbing shrub growing in vegetation. Profusion of yellow flowers.

Mat forming herb, not aromatic, flower purple.

Herb rooted between rocks in stream bed.

Clay dambo. Herb to 10 cm.

Local.

Occasional; widely-spaced perennial from soft taproot; stems dull red; standard light red outside, inside brick red; wings brick red; keel light green; young pods dull red and green.

Prostrate habit.

Trailing; annual, among sparse grasses; stems light yellow-green; calyx deep red; standard pink, wings and keel deep red; young pods yellow-green.

Prostrate herb, leaves simple. Cited in Flora Zambesiaca volume 3 part 4:43 (2012).

Seepage. Prostrate habit.

Floodplain aquatic.