Collections made by Peter Smith

Prostrate stemmed herb with a woody rootstock. Flowers with white petals with magenta centres.

Low prostrate herb with small woody rootstock sending out long stems.

1.5-2 ft. tall plants. Greenish flowers.

Perennial herb with yellow round flower heads. Some plants with white woolly hairs, others not woolly and appearing a much darker green.

Shrub with very small flowers.

Shrublet to 40 cm tall forming a group (connected by rhizomes?). No Flowers or fruits available. In very open (tree/scrub) grassland.

25 cm tall herb with trumpet-shaped flowers

A small herb giving off an unpleasant smell. Fruit red.

Creeper rooted in hard loam with Cynodon grass

Creeper

Fruit deep reddish-orange in colour (mature). Flowers with greenish petals with bright orange centres.

Cited in Flora Zambesiaca volume 3 part 7: 15 (2003)

Cited in Flora Zambesiaca Volume 10 part 3, 1989: 6.

Shrublet mostly 1 m tall growing in discrete patches like low thickets. Possibly an evergreen species, leaves always seem to be glistening

Bushy shrublet to 0.75m tall; only old dired and insect damaged fruit available.

An introduced weed, the subject of an eradication campaign in this area

Tree 2-3.5 m tall with trunk swollen at base but tapering into branches like a baobab. Dark yellowish-green papery bark. Flowers trumpet-shaped white inside but tinged purplish outside.

A 1 m tall herb with woody rootstock. Elsewhere noted at the drier limits of floodplains well away from perennial swamps. Scattered distribution.