Collections made by Barbara Curtis

250 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Scrambling shrub, 250 cm high, with woody stems and twining upper branches. Leaves: very similar to 1403, but not hairy. Compound, leaflets oval, opposite, very slightly discolorous, mostly imparipinnate. Fruits: pods, clustered, brown and leathery, splitting to reveal oval red seeds with a black tip.

3 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 3 m high.

8 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 8 m high. Very common. Mopane woodland.

5 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 5 m tall, with yellow, flaking bark. Thorns paired, large, hooked. Leaves: with 5 pinnae pairs. A small raised gland on petiole near base of pinnae pair. Confirmed by MU, 6.11.2002.

30 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 30 m high. Trunk: red with greenish-yellowish bark. Thorns paired on branches, with very thickened bases. Leaves: pinnae pairs, about 4-6 a pair, small, erect gland on petiole.

5 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 5 m high. Stem: a few equal, single stems. Bark: older - brown, fissured; young - yellowish. Young branches grey-brown with prominant lenticels.Thorns: paired, dark on raise bases. Leaves: very open, 5-7 pinnae pairs, well spaced, lateral branches coming out almost horizontally, with leaves held out horizontally. Small raised petiolar gland more than half way up the petiole.

Notes: Typical Acacia hebaclada growth form, but thorns not right. Either two very short, straight ones or long slender ones. No pods.

Tree; Notes: Tree, 20 m high. Seasonally flooded.

380 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrubs, 380 cm tall with spreading branches, brown. Paired, straight spines deflexed backwards. Flowers in golden balls. Old pods on ground underneath. Voucher for Tree Atlas Project.

210 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub 210 cm tall, brown stems. New growth green and velvety. Thorns long and straight. New thorns, green with dark tips, short. Somewhat swept back. Leaves with tiny leaflets. Flowers yellow balls. Pods dark brown, constricted between the seeds. Voucher for: pods collected.

25 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 25 m tall. Single trunk, yellowish and somewhat powdery. Strong, paired, hooked thorns. Branches come out somewhat horizontally. Leaves large and feathery, with more than 15 pinnae pairs and a very large, squat, petiolar gland. Flowers: cream coloured, in long spikes. Fruits: pods papery - leathery, long and narrow, reddish brown.

5 m high; Climber; Notes: Scrambling climber, 5 m tall. Scattered, hooked thorns, growing on longitudinal grooves and stems. Leaves: large and feathery with prickles on rachis. Flowers: in creamy balls. Fruits: pods, reddish brown, papery-leathery.

8 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 8 m tall. Trunk simple, somewhat rough but yellowish. Spines long and narrow, younger ones short. Leaves with 15 pinnae pairs, pinnules small and closely packed. Large gland at base of first pinnae pair. Can get into very large trees with spreading canopy. Common. Voucher for Tree Atlas Project.

1.6 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 1.6 m high. Yellowish green stems. Straight white thorns with darker tips.

3 m high; Tree; Notes: Young tree, 3 m tall. Single, fairly fat stem, smooth, grey. Leaves digitate - 1 to 5 fingers/leaflets, slippery, smooth, floppy leaves.

Tree; Notes: Tree, 25 m tall, with single trunk. Leaves: with pulvinus. Leaflets hairless, discolorous, slightly sickle-shaped with oblique midrib, opposite. Leaves alternate. Flowers: with 4 green sepals, boat-shaped, curled back. Two fused pinkish petals and 7 green stamens, whole flower very open. Fruits: pods large, dark, woody, with large black and red seeds inside.

Tree; Notes: Tree on termite hill with exceptionally large leaflets.

7 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 7 m high. Brown stem. Burkea woodland.

10 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 10 m high. Trunk rough and longitudinally fissured. Pods orange, leathery, flat. Flowers cream-coloured. Leaflets fine.

2 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 2 m high, small leaflets.

6 m high; Tree; Shrub; Notes: Tree or multistemmed shrub, 6 m high. Trunk yellowish with dark, rough areas. Leaves dark green above, lighter below, velvety. Leaflets large, almost rectangular, asymmetric. Voucher for Tree Atlas Project.

6 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 6 m high. Stem: thick, rigid, with rough, dark bark. Flowers: tiny, in axillary spikes. Leaves: discolorous, dark green above, yellow-green below.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 3 m high and 5 m in diameter. Old leaves. Very rounded, cannot see stems inside.

2 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 2 m tall, broken by elephants. Also collected at Schuckmannsburg. Leaves markedly discolorous, hairy, prominent vein. Voucher for Tree Atlas Project.

Creeper; Notes: Creeper with woody stem, round, brown. Leaves: ovate, with rounded base and apex. Soft when young, more leathery when older. Young stems, petioles and leaves velvety. Leaf discolorous, alternate, midvein prominent below. Flower: on ends of a curved hook of stem. Three green, nearly circular sepals enclosing 6 cream-green petals. Whole thing globose and 1 cm in diameter, pendulent.

20 m high; Notes: Baikiaea in flower, 20 m high.

3 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 3 m high. Older stems brown, younger ones green, all very stiff and woody. Leaves with 2 leaflets below a spine. Mopane woodland, sandy plain.

Notes: Simple stem about 2 cm in diameter, with short lateral branches low down. Branches very stiff. Stem greenish, stiff succulent. Sessile leaves green, concolorous, in whorls. Spiny. Mopane woodland. Corr. nom.: SR 01.2008.

2.5 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 2.5 m high. Untidy, with pods. Medium brown stems with conspicuous white lenticels. Flowers on ends of lateral shoots. All branches turning upwards. Leaves held erect, slightly paler below, obovate. Flowers pale pink with a yellow spot in throat. Lean flowers with protruding stamens. Sandy plain. Mixed woodland.

80 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 80 cm high. Flowers: white, crinkly.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 3 m high, with pods.

Shrub; Notes: Shrubs, 2.5 m high. Sandy plain. Mixed woodland.

4 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 4 m high. Rough, longitudinally fissured bark. Stem, petioles and petiolules hairy. Stems green, flecked with white lenticels. Leaves and leaflets hang down, 1-3 pairs of leaflets and terminal one. 2 large stipules at leaf bases. Thick hairy petioles. Leaflets sometimes opposite, sometimes alternate. Leaves alternate. Sandy plain, Mopane/Terminalia sericea woodland.

4 m high; Tree; Shrub; Notes: Tree, 4 m high. Stem: one thick central stem, but lots of others growing outward around it, rough, grey, young growth straw coloured. Leaves: very stiff and leathery, alternate to subopposite, badly eaten and infested. Very sharp tip. There are others - more suffrutex, but stiff stems.

Shrub; Notes: Low, very woody shrub on termite mound, 80 cm high. Leaves with bristle tip. Discolorous. Stems dark brown and brittle. Growing in shade. Burkea woodland.

150 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 150 cm tall. Stems: dark green. Younger stems straw-coloured with longitudinal grooves or green striations. Leaves: large, leathery, bristle tipped. Fruit: spherical, pale red, short androgynophore, persistent sepals 4.

230 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 230 cm tall. Leaves: green, discolorous, obovate, apex tapering to blunt. Flowers: tiny, yellow-green, in clusters in leaf axils. Leaves: alternate, with a stipule at base of each leaf.

Tree; Notes: 20 m high or more. Old tree. Single stem and spreading canopy.

4 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 4 m tall, climbing into other trees. Stems green. Paired hooked thorns at nodes. Leaves velvety. Fruit globose, hanging down. Most species shaded.

120 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 120 cm high. Stems: velvety, with very small prickles. Leaves: concolorous, velvety, especially below.

10 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 10 m high. Mopane woodland.

80 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 80 cm high. All have new floppy, reddish-golden leaves. Broken by elephants, occasional on floodplain, all have been broken to this height.

4 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 4 m tall. Light bark. Leaves: new leaves shiny green, undulate, in three's. Fruits: old pods golden, 4 winged (one is five winged), longer than wide, but blunt at both ends, with an apical peg.

4 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 4 m tall. Flowers and new leaves.

Tree; Notes: Shrubby tree. Leaves olive green above, white hairs below. Stems brown. Leaves opposite to alternate.

Notes: Sandy plain. Mixed woodland.

6 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 6 m high.

Tree; Notes: Tree, 5 m high, with shiny narrow leaves, undulate. Smooth, silver stem. 4 winged pods. Sandy plain. Mixed woodland.

120 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 120 cm high. Stem: brown, fragile, common here, but more are tall. Flowers: in very small clusters.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 1.5 m. Soft stems, fairly open shrub.

6 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 6 m high, with pods, dark reddish brown to yellow with deep golden brown wings. Smooth grey stem. Sandy plain, Mopane/Terminalia sericea woodland.

160 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 160 cm high. Leaves: smooth, discolourous, obovate with a blunt apex and a small pointed tip. Veins conspicuous below. Branches and leaves opposite.

3 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 3 m high. Mopane woodland.

Climber; Notes: Climber, 3 m tall.

Tree; Notes: Tree, 4 m high, with small red pods, teardrop shaped. Young stems dark and velvety. Bark peels off in sections rather than flakes. Leaves hairy, especially below. Dark green above, pale below, with very prominent veins. Uncommon (only 1 seen). Dark bark.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 1.2 m high. Large leathery leaves. Discolorous. Margin undulate. In whorled 3.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub.

80 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 80 cm tall. Spines present. Leaves trifoliolate, velvety, crenate. Fruit ovoid.

10 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 10 m high. Bark: yellow, peeling, revealing a dark green underbark. Leaves: pinnate, velety; leaflets rectangular.

Notes: Yellow peels, green stem - single stemmed, but branching low down. Fruit quite large, 12 -14 mm in diameter, globose. Sticky latex. Leaves hairy and discolorous. Dark green above, paler below.

1.6 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 1.6 m high. Stem peels to reveal greenish under bark. Hairs smooth, margins serrate, 1-3 pairs leaflets and terminal one. Discolorous, veins prominent. Stems greyish. Sandy plain. Mixed woodland.

Notes: 2 Were collected before. Soft leaves.

Tree; Notes: Tree, 6 m tall with lots of berries. Seasonally flooded.

2 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 2 m high. Single stem. Spines. Discolorous, serrate leaves.

130 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrubs, 130 cm. Greenish-yellow bark. Short spinescent branches. Simple leaves clustered on spines. Fruit ovoid (in paper bag).

8 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, about 8 m high. Trunk: dark, smooth. Leaves: trifoliate. Flowers: cup-shaped, in terminal clusters on long pedicels.

20 cm high; Herb; Notes: Ndebele - cook and eat. Herb, 20 cm high. Sell at the markets. Can dry the leaves. Only after rains. Mopane woodland.

Flopping shrub up to 5 m tall, but leaning on other plants, when not on other plants, the branches grow outwards rather than upwards, about 8 m from base. With flower buds in axillary sprays and old flowers. Old flower with a fleshy, persistent calyx surrounding a globose fruit.

Clambering shrub, 2 m tall. Smooth brown stems. Leaves coarsely hairy, almost round, get very large.

Shrubs, 3 m high. Round, velvety leaves. Soft stems, brown, not very woody terminal buds.

Shrubs, up to 1.2 cm tall, with smooth, light brown stems. Leaves large, floppy, velvety, almost round. Petioles with long hairs. Leaves discolorous with conspicuous venation below. Fruit developing inside a cup shaped, fleshy calyx.

Tree; Notes: Shrubby tree, 2 m tall. Discolorous leaves, opposite. Fruit a round green berry, inferior ovary. Rubiaceae. 2 specimens.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub.

3 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 3 m tall. Lots of stems, silver grey, smooth. Only a few leaves. Flowers on drooping spray. Common, all this height.

180 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 180 cm tall. Leaves: with short petioles. Discolorous. Smooth below, rough above.

5 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 5 m tall, with drooping branches. Leaves, stems and petioles hairy. Petiole long, with two glands at base of lamina.

Shrub; Notes: Floppy, soft leaved shrub.

70 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 70 cm high. Flowers - balls. Stem silver grey. Plant looks like other crotons. Common, all this height.

Shrub; Notes: Spinescent lateral branches. Shrub with numerous stems and branches from the ground. Very dense, lateral branches and leaves hang down. Compound leaf and small leaflets. About 5 plants together in a depression. Burkea woodland.

Herb; Notes: Prostrate herbs, with tubular pinky - lilac flowers with large flaps on corolla in open part of corolla. Burkea woodland on sandy plain.

4 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub 4 m - edge of pan. Young pods. Common in places. Mopane woodland.

4 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 4 m tall. Smooth brown stems. Globose fruit.

230 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 230 cm high. With fruit. Voucher for Tree Atlas Project.

4 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 4 m tall, growing mixed up with another shrub. Branches pendulent. Leaves: soft and hanging, discolorous, velvety below. Fruit: ovoid, with pointed apex, enclosed in a calyx with 5 long, slender sepals.

4 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 4 m high. Multi-stemmed. Older branches with spines where lateral branches were. Fruit oval.

Tree; Notes: Shrubby tree, up to 2 m high, with very soft, floppy branches and hanging leaves. Branches reddish brown with white lenticels. Leaves opposite. Milky latex. Bright green. Sandy plain. Mixed woodland.

Tree, 3 m tall. Simple slender, brown stem. Leaves slightly discolorous, with distinct venation below. Flowers like little brushes, in terminal clusters.

4 m high; Tree; Shrub; Notes: Shrub / tree, 4 m high. Drooping green berries. One stem, but coming out of ground at angle, not erect. Smooth, brown. Leaves shiny. Red- green berries and pendulent stalks, among leaves.

Shrub; Notes: Shrubs broken off at 50 cm - was much taller. Smooth brown stems. Coppicing stems green. Leaves lanceolate, serrate. Voucher for Tree Atlas Project.

150 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 150 cm tall. Leaves: large, with 12 - 14 pinnae pairs. Leaflets asymmetric, but with distinct lamina on both sides. Marked pulvinus. Young stems, petiole and rachis of new leaves red. Fruit: pods, 35 - 40 cm long, cylindrical, with large seeds demarcated by swellings in the pod.

Tree, 30 m high. Trunk single, large diameter. Bark peels off in woody discs to reveal a pale, smooth undersurface. Leaves clustered on terminal shoots, paripinnate, discolorous, pendulent, with long petioles and petiolules. Leaflets opposite. Leaves whorled. Fruit a large pod, with 5 woody valves splitting open to reveal a central, pithy core.

120 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 120 cm tall. Stems very white. Leaves dark green, soft, floppy, discolorous.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 1.6 m tall. Olive-green stem with white lenticels. Orange berries in groups of 3. Leaves somewhat rough but soft. Discolorous, margin serrate. Floppy, hairy.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub.

4 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 4 m high, with soft, hanging, bright green leaves. Uncommon. Sandy plain. Mixed woodland.

Tree; Notes: Flueggea? like. Tree, 5 m. Oval, peduline fruit, small white flowers. Common.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub, with tiny flowers and pendulent oval fruit, like Flueggea.

4 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 4 m tall. Floppy branches. Voucher for Tree Atlas Project.

4 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub 4 m high. Stems smooth, grey. Leaves: opposite, sometimes whorled in 3, with buds in leaf axils. Discolorous, margin is mildly undulate. Sandy plain, Mopane/Terminalia sericea woodland.

Notes: 20 m tall, usual smooth cream stem. Milky latex. Coppicing photo. Corr. nom.: S. Rgheimer 5.2007.

Notes: Corr. nom.: S. Rgheimer 5.2007.

Shrub; Notes: Growing under Diospyros. Milky latex. Shrub, 1.6 m high.

3 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 3 m tall. Stems: smooth, light brown with sharp spines. A single sharp spine at base of most leaves. Leaves: circular, velvety. Fruit: a round berry about 5 mm long, with a ring of persistent calyx at apex.

3 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 3 m tall, very open with not much foliage. Stems round, brown. Leaves undulate, bright green, hairless to the touch, ovate. Flowers tiny in axillary clusters. Voucher for Tree Atlas Project.

Climber; Notes: Climber, 5 m into a Colophospermum mopane. Pods also 'bulls horn-like', brown with no white markings. Milky latex. Flowers tiny white-cream cups with pointed lips, long calyx lobes behind back. 5 Sepals, dark brownish- green.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub.

2 m high; Notes: 2 meter. Single stem.

Tree; Notes: Tree, 10 m tall with thick stem. Greyish, peeling in blocks. Stems silver, with 3 branches. Leaves smooth, fairly thin textured, shiny, bright green. Flowers yellow. Fruit oval, round.

Tree; Notes: Branches in 3 from central stem. Leaves dark green above, light green below. Small shrubby tree - stems grey. Burkea woodland.

5 m high; Shrub; Notes: Stiff shrub, 5 m tall. Stems: stiff, smooth, silver, with lateral branches coming off in three's. Fruit: oval, green, with remains of flower at apex. Leaves: spathulate, smooth, bright green.

Notes: Spiny green leaves curling at tips. Flowers orange with yellow edges to petals.

1.6 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 1.6 m high. Hibiscus yellow flower. Brown stems.

Notes: Smooth leaves shiny green when young, darker green when older. No hair. Stem round, grey. Berries up to 3 on a stalk. Single or 2 balls.

150 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Perennial shrub, 150 cm high. Leaves discolorous, base asymmetric, hang down from stem. Stems round, brown. Fruit axillary, stalk divided into two. Uncommon.

3 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 3 m high. Floppy branches. Leaves hang down. Burkea woodland.

2.5 m high; Shrub; Notes: Floppy shrubs, 2.5 m high, but spreading. Square stem. Burkea woodland.

Shrub; Notes: Sprawling shrub, 210 cm high, partly covered by and partly covering other parts. Leaves simple, somewhat rough. Base asymmetric. Margin serrate. Apex apiculate, somewhat discolorous. Stems and bark: brown, somewhat floppy, brown, round, smooth. Fruits and seed: axillary, 4-lobed, with glandular hairs. Flower buds axillary. Exposure: semi-shade. Voucher for: Salambala Conservancy. Rare. Terminalia woodland on floodplain edge.

380 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 380 cm high. Stems: round, smooth, brown, arching and floppy. Leaves: hairless, thinly textured. Base tapering, almost symmetrical. Apex attenuate, margin serrate and undulate. Petiole short. A pair of stipules at base of each leaf. Flowers: leaf opposed, white. Fruit: 4 lobed.

180 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 180 cm tall. Stems round, smooth. Leaves concolorous.

5 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 5 m high. Stem: many light brown stems, smooth, not branching a lot, quite thick, but arching over. Leaves: asymmetric, velvety, discolorous.

1.8 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 1.8 m tall.

6 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 6 m high. Stem: old stem - fairly rough and fissured, younger stem: smooth and brown to tan, growing upward and arching outward. New shoots densely velvety. Leaves: densely velvety, asymmetric, discolorous with roughly serrate margin. Flowers: axillary, generally 3 per stalk and 2-3 stalks per axil, Petals small, yellow and curled tightly back, sepals green below, yellow above and opened up to function as petals, lots of bright yellowed clustered stamens with golden anthers.

5 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 5 m high. Stem: round, brown, fairly smooth. Leaves: asymmetric, discolorous, serrate. Flower: yellow, axillary. Habitat: termite mound.

260 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 260 cm tall. A few round stems from ground, coming up and outward - not very branched. Stems smooth, light brown (tan coloured). Young branches densely downy. Leaves thick, velvety, markedly asymetric, with serrate margins. Flowers axillary, yellow.

170 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 170 cm tall. Stems: smooth, silver. Leaves: leathery, finely serrate apically. Fruits: clustered reddish brown seed cases, 2 valves, with chocolate brown seeds.

10 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 10 m high. Others were taller. Trunk: very smooth, shiny, silver tinged with bronze. Leaves: clustered terminally, soft, pendulous, velvety, distinctly discolorous, cordate. Herby smell. Rocky hills. Locally common.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub. Leaves opposite, smooth, discolorous, margin serrate, obovate.

Climber; Notes: Climber in Combretum elaeagnoides. Mixed woodland, sandy plain.

230 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 230 cm high. Stems smooth, purple-brown with white lenticels and hairs. New leaves just beginning. Pods paired.

Shrub; Notes: Scrambling shrub. Leaves almost concolorous - green. Serrate margin. Opposite. Slightly hairy and young branches hairy.

Climber; Notes: Climber with quite a woody stem. Have seen as a self standing bush, up to 1.5 m high. Fruit 3 capsules at angle to each other. Same colour as leaves. Burkea woodland.

4 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrubs, 4 m high, with soft, woody stems, light yellow-brown, peeling somewhat to reveal green underbark. Leaves soft and velvety, lime green, prominent veins below. Terminal clusters of flower buds. Voucher for Tree Atlas Project.

3 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 3 m tall, very sparse growth. Flowers: strongly scented, shiny yellow, in loose sprays. Spray axillary. Leaves opposite, velvety, bright green, somewhat discolorous, distinct venation below.

Notes: Strangler - whorled stem, very thick and twisting around trees. Can stand alone, up to 80 cm. Undulate large leaves, thick but not leathery - velvety. Milky latex. Mopane woodland, sandy plain.

120 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Perennial shrub, 120 cm high. Leaves: simple, soft but held firmly (not floppy). Slightly discolorous, hairy. Opposite to sub-opposite. Stems/bark: fairly stiff branches, stems brown. Fruit/seed: resembles an olive, ovoid, black, smooth. Persistent calyx with many finger-like projections.

Tree; Notes: Tree, 6 m high. Single, erect stem. Reddish brown. Leaves concolorous, smooth, soft. Hanging down.

6 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 6 m high. Stem: rough, silvery. Leaves: whorled at ends of branches. Leaflets: small. Flowers: small, with 4 creamy petals and 4 stamens, in sprays on a long peduncle, arising away to leaves.

Notes: 2 were collected before. Soft leaves.

6 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 6m. Stem very smooth, purplish-brown. Leaves imparipinnate, soft, floppy. Leaflets densely velvety. Uncommon overall, but there was a small forest of seedlings of 0.5 - 2 m around the single big tree.

20 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 20 m tall. Smooth grey trunk - peeling somewhat at ends of branches. Velvety compound leaves. Flowers hang down. Only buds present. Uncommon - two next to each other.

4 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 4 m high. Thin stems, light grey-brown. Soft, bright green leaves, velvety. In shade of other trees. Leaves discolourous - darker above. Young leaves yellow - green. Mopane woodland.

250 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 250 cm high. Somewhat scrambling in other vegetation. Leaves velvety. Stem smooth and brown.

10 m high; Tree; Notes: Large trees, 10 m high, have smooth grey bark. Leaflets ovate with somewhat asymmetric base. Apex attenuate. Sandy plain, Mopane/Terminalia sericea woodland.

15 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 15 m tall. Smooth, pale trunk. Leaves in terminal whorls, velvety and soft. Flowers in drooping spikes, small, yellow. Spikes in whorls among leaves.

80 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, broken by elephants, 80 cm tall. Broken stem very thick, woody, brown. New stems green. Leaves hairy, floppy.

310 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrubs, 310 cm tall, brown stems, lanceolate, velvety leaves. Voucher for Tree Atlas Project.

4 m high; Shrub; Tree; Notes: Tree/shrub, 4 m high - a few. Thick stems, open. Brown, smooth. Rosettes of leaves on short lateral branches. Branches divide into 2's and 3's. Flowers hang in clusters below leaves.

2 m high; Shrub; Notes: 2 m shrub next to large tree. Branches trichotomously. Sometimes a spine in the place of a branch. Sticky fluids when cut. Leaves closely clustered on dwarf shoots. Leaves smooth, dark green above, light green below. Slightly hairy below. Midrib very prominent below. Midrib above paler than blade. Apex notched and often curled under. Lateral veins clear. Stem smooth and not peeling. Sandy plain, Mopane/Terminalia sericea woodland.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub with soft branches and leaves, up to 1.5 m high. Stems grey, brown. Good wood for fire.

Notes: Leaves: obovate, smooth, hairless, alternate, discolorous.

Notes: Flowers: yellow trumpet flower with red lines in throat. Sandy plain. Mixed woodland.

150 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 150 cm tall. In a thicket of Mimosa and Sesbania. Pale pink flower balls. Glandular pods. Compound leaves that close when touched.

80 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 80 cm tall, riverine. Stems: reddish-brown, hairy, with tiny, hooked, scattered thorns. Rachis hairy, glandular, with paired thorns between pinnae. Flowers in pink balls. Pods: in clusters. Very hairy and glandular.

20 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 20 m tall, with rough bark, splitting into rectangular blocks, like a crocodiles skin. Leaves: bright green above, smooth and shiny, paler below. Flowers: axillary. Ovary with 2 rows of sepals (4 each, curled back), then a ring of creamy white petals standing erect, 10, then what looks like another ring of petals closed around the ovary, with the pistil protruding, no stigma. Fruit: oval, fleshy, with large pip. Orange/yellow.

Tree; Notes: Tree, 4 m high. Sandy plain, Mopane/Terminalia sericea woodland.

4 m high; Tree; Notes: Small tree, 4 m tall. Leaves: alternate, undulate, pendulent, somewhat discolorous, smooth, hairless, thinly textured. Fruit: oval, pendulent, single.

Creeper; Notes: Creeper with woody stem, fluted. young stems green and deeply fluted. Leaves compound, stiff, shiny green. Petiole and rachis winged. Leaflet shiny, smooth, bright green, margin irregularly toothed, venation prominent. Flowers in axillary spikes and long peduncle, with a tendril at top of peduncle. Creamy white with yellow stamens.

3 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrubs, 3 m tall. Flowers tubular, white, tops of petals turn back, with green tip. Stamens dark. Pistil protrudes. Strong scent. Terminalia sericea and mopane woodland.

Shrub; Notes: Shrubs.

1.2 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 1.2 m tall. Leaflets very large.

3 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 3 m tall. Leaves: long, up to 1.5 m (just the tip sampled). Clusters of oval green fruits on yellow green stalks, hanging down.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub. Saw a tree 10 m tall.

Tree; Notes: Tree with open spreading, lax branches. Leaves: small, oval to round. Fruit/seed: clusters of berries (a) with younger fruit, (b) with older fruit.

2.5 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 2.5 m high. Light brown stems. Soft leaves, light green. Concolorous, whorled.

Tree; Notes: Tree, up to 8 m high. Dark, rough bark. Fruit ovoid with a few remains of calyx. Leaves discolorous. Mopane woodland.

Notes: Burkea woodland.

Shrub; Notes: Straggly shrub, up to 4 m high. Brown stems, bark peeling off. Shiny green leaves. Black berries.

10 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 10 m high. Dark, rough bark. Open sparse canopy with large pinnate leaves. Young tree with smooth grey stem. On sandy plain. Burkea woodland.

6 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 6 m high. Growing in shade. Brown stems - multistemmed. Floodplain island. Leaves imparipinnate, velvety, discolorous. Fruit ovoid, with persistent calyx at base of leaves. Apex slightly skew.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 180 cm high. Fairly browsed. Fruit: red berries.

3 m high; Climber; Notes: Climber, 3 m high. Leaves: velvety, opposite and decussate, sessile. Stem: green. Fruit/seed: small green berries.

8 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 8 m high. A few very green fruit on. Palmate leaves. Discolorous. Burkea woodland.

Tree; Notes: Tree, up to 6 m, drooping crown. Leaves opposite to sub-opposite, leathery, slightly discolorous, fairly dark green. Sunken veins on upper surface - protruding veins on lower surface. Stem greenish brown with oval white lenticels. Fruit pear-shaped - 4 locules. Mopane woodland.

6 m high; Tree; Notes: Marula - tree 6 m high. Burkea woodland.

Notes: Sandy plain, Mopane/Terminalia sericea woodland.

100 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 100 cm high.

4 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 4 m tall - pendulent leaves.

10 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 10 m high. Smooth, brown stem, use branches for building poles.

6 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 6 m tall. New growth brown, velvety. Leaves: shiny green, smooth above, light green and rough below. Upper surface shiny and sticky. Margins very slightly crenate.

1.6 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 1.6 m high. Flowering, fairly common. Leaves very velvety - no petiolules. Margin double crenate. Mopane woodland.

Notes: Growing in shade.

10 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 10 m high. Stem: 4 thin, smooth grey stems, all growing together. Flowers: mauve/lilac. Fruit/seed: new pods reddish/green. Someone has dug a hole around the trunk and the tree is leaning.

3 m high; Shrub; Tree; Notes: Wispy tree or single stemmed shrub, 3 m high. Leaflets fairly large. Pods with persistent calyx. Growth form: tree or shrub.

Tree; Notes: Tree, 3 m tall. Main stem brown, young stems green. Leaflets fairly large. Habitat: river bank.

Notes: 1 m tall. Stiff, no flowers.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 1.8 m high.

2 m high; Shrub; Notes: Scrambling shrub, perennial. Height: 1-2 m (either a self standing shrub up to 1 m, or clambering in/over plants up to 2 m). Leaves: simple dark green above, pale and velvety below, very short petiole, decussate. Stem and bark: stiff, dark brown. Fruit and seed: two pods resembling the horns of a bull, large, brown, with white flecks when mature. Vegetation: closed/open woodland.

60 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 60 cm high. Stem: smooth. Flower: tubular with long trailing pinky-orange trails about 8 cm long, flower is white with 5 pinky-orange bands inside. Fruit/seed: pods long like a bulls horn, but now split open, reddish with white flecks; seeds flattened with green like plumed tail.

Climber; Notes: Climber with rough, dark chocolate brown stems with large white lenticels. Leaves opposite and decussate, thick, crinkled, discolorous, very hairy below. Hairs wiry. Flowers creamy white with pink and yellow throat and very long trailing edges to petals. Pods large like cows horns.

18 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrubs, 18 m tall. Lots of very smooth, silver stems growing upwards, all equally thick. Half way up the branches start arching over and laying down again. Only a few old leaves remain, and one strychnos fruit. Hard, green, about 8 cm in diameter. Munteme = Subya.

20 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 20 m high. Trunk smooth, light brown with some creamy blotches. Spreading canopy. Flowers fluffy creamy-yellow. Insects like them. Locally common.

18 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 18 m high, with drooping branches. Young stems light brown. Leaves: opposite, pendulant, discolorous, smooth, hairless. Flowers: in terminal clusters with lots of creamy stamens tipped with a hint of pink. Riparian Forest.

160 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 160 cm tall, consist of 4 stems, rough, brown, with white lenticels. Milky latex. Leaves lanceolate, discolorous, velvety, especially below. Pods on tip of branch above leaves. Two woody, dehiscent valves.

Parasite. Notes: Parasite of Philenoptera violacea. Also seen on Dichrostachys. Fleshy leaves, dull green, concolorous.

Tree; Notes: Tree, 20 m tall. Large pods with undulate wings. Very soft lateral shoots with leaves clustered on - not spiny.

6 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 6 m tall, with layered canopy. Leaves: clustered on dwarf shoots, which stick upwards from branches on leafless trees. Leaves obovate, smooth, hairless, discolorous.

Tree; Notes: Tree, 5 m high. Sandy plain, Mopane/Terminalia sericea woodland.

5 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 5 m tall, layered canopy. Leaves: clustered on short lateral shoots, silver, especially below. Flowers: cream, closely packed on axillary spikes. Last season's pods still on, winged, light brown.

10 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 10 m tall, has been broken by elephant. With 2 tiny babies and about 4 sub-adults. Bark dark, longitudinally fissured, reddish-yellow in the cracks. Younger branches yellowish-red and longitudinally fissured. Canopy spreading leaves in typical Terminalia rosettes. Very large, velvety on both sides. Darker above than below. Flowers in spikes, 5 pointed bells with lots of stamens. Green coloured. Pods typically Terminalia. Voucher for Tree Atlas Project.

Tree; Notes: Large tree > 20 m high, with dark green leaves, pale and hairy below. Leathery. Bark dark and fissured.

6 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 6 m tall, riverine. Stems: smooth, grey. New growth velvety. Leaves: with marked pulvinus, sometimes paripinnate, sometimes imparipinnate. Petiole up to 15 cm long, velvety. Rachis velvety. Petiolules thick. Leaflets smooth, dark green above, yellow green and velvety below with marked venation. Fruit: ovoid, green, velvety, with 6 segments demarcated by grooves.

Tree; Notes: Tree with a number of pale, smooth stems. Growing among other trees in a thicket or an island in the floodplain. Leaves long and narrow - yellow green. Flower orange-yellow with petals turned back and stamens forming a tube. Pistil protrudes, with a swelling at the tip (Ovary?)

150 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 150 cm high. Flowers creamy.

20 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 20 m tall, single trunk. Bark: sort of rough, in large rectangular pieces. Leaves: large, imparipinnate. Marked pulvinus. Terminal leaflet articulated. Leaflets undulate, opposite, more or less concolorous, with prominent venation. Fruits: pods brown, with a single seed surrounded by a leathery wing, pointed base and apex.

Notes: 1.6 m high. Only 1 fruit.

180 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Scrambling shrub, 180 cm tall, 2 m in diameter. Stems: brown to green. Leaves: blue-green, folded up along midrib, clustered on spiny lateral shoots. Fruit: oval, pendulous.

4 m high; Tree; Notes: Shrubby tree, 4 m high. Smooth grey bark. Leaves on young branches very downy, short spines at base of leaves. Sandy plain, Mopane/Terminalia sericea woodland.

360 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 360 cm tall. Spiny. Leaves soft, floppy, velvety. Fruit pendulent, ovoid.