Records determined 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Notes: 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.

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.

Notes: Tree/shrub. Common species especially around pans on edge of termitaria. Variable in size from a tree up to 6 m in height to shrub about 1 m high. No flowers and fruit. Distinct corky lenticels. The whole area is dominated by Colophospermum mopane woodlands with extensive flooded areas and pans. Soils are clays and clay loam.

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.

Climber; Notes: Climber, 3 m tall.

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

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.

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: 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.

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, 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub.

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.

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

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.

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.

Scrambler; Notes: Rare in dense bush; woody scrambler.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Notes: Sandy plain, Mopane/Terminalia sericea woodland.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.