Collections made by Peter Biegel

Stems quite prostrate, weakly rooting at some nodes. Plant 0.8 m in diameter.

Tips of some fronds arching over and where they touch ground new plants develop

Spreading stems from woody root. Vexillum rose, keel off white tinged pink. Common. [Position estimated]

Shrub 4 m. Leaves dark olive-green above, grey below, much damaged by eating insects. Flowers orange.

Inflorescence spherical, the flowers crowded give off an offensive smell; pedicels, calyces off-white greenish; this colour but deeper on outside corolla segments; cup and segments inside chocolate brown.

Open shrub with arching branches to 4 m long. Flowers light mauve. Copious milky juice from cut surfaces. Grown from seed locally collected; this plant is less stiff and the flowers are a lighter mauve compared with the usual habit and flower colour in Rhodesia.

Leafless parasite with flexuous, brown, filiform stems. Flowers yellowish. Area sown to imported seed ex USA.

Masses of yellow to brown-yellow threads. Flowering and fruiting profusely. Plant covers c. 2 x 3 m area.

Leafless parasite with flexuous, brown, filiform stems. Flowers yellowish. Area sown to imported seed ex USA.

"Very doubtful if cultivated".

Soft woody shrub, 1.2 m. Branches purple. Leaves purple below. Flowers erect, double, purple outside, whitish inside. Fruit sharp-knobbly.

This is the only record form C in SRGH on 13 Dec 2006

About 100 yds and 3 ft vertically lower a large colony of D. viride and a small one of D. longifolium. Bulb white, rest green. Part of scape with unopened flowers pendulous, becomes erect as they open. Ovary sessile, stigma club-shaped, style short. Base of filaments with shallow U-curve.

Cited in a draft account for Flora Zambesiaca of the Hyacinthaceae. Plant in flower.

Tree, 3 m, crown round. Petals creamy-yellow. Style, stamens red. Calyx, pedicels brown glandular-hairy.

Perennial herb 0.6 m. Leaves green; Involucral leaves with red area lower 1/2, the inner smaller and all red.

Prostrate herb. Collector number is for GV Pope.

Cited in Flora Zambesiaca volume 9 part 5: 378, 2001

Tree 15 m. Crown tall - rounded, heavy. Bark smooth, grey. White latex from cut branch ends.

Open shrub 1.2 m, the branches virgate, the outer branches arching outwards. Foliage bluish-grey. Flowers white. A graceful small shrub.

Bush 1ft high. Flowers pale yellow. Slight scent when crushed.

Dense dark green climber; flower perianth yellow.

Scrambling shrub with stems up to 3 m long trailing over rocks. Perianth green with light green margins to the segments.

Trailing shrub.

1.5 m shrub climbing at the ends.

Twiner to 1.25 m.Flowers in clusters, light mauve; throat dark mauve.

Cited in Manning et al., 2013: 97

Erect ?perennial. Flowers pinky-mauve. Two plants seen.

Calyx green outside, greenish-white within like the petals. Corona fimbriate, mauve at base, the remainder greenish-white. Climber 4 m.

0.5 schrub

Shrub 0.7 m; new growth measures 0.5 m. Area probably burnt the previous year

Probably rhizomatous, many-stemmed shrub, regrown to 0.6 m after burn. Tufts of stems 1 per 2m sq. on area of c. 30 x 50 m.

Subshrub; fruit reddish-brown.

Garden ornamental. Rather dense shrub, somewhat spreading, 4 m high.

Among 5 ft tall Setaria sphacelata. Flowers greenish with dull blue on edge vexillum. Pods hairy, pendulous.

Bushy, very prickly herb, 2 ft high. Leaves discolorous. One plant only seen.