Collections made by Bart Wursten

Standing upright

In flower

In fruit.

Fruit with more than 23 very long-awned carpels

Leavs small, green, not much hairy or glaucous; only 5 metacarpels, very long awns

iNaturalist record

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Small shrubs less than 2 m high, forming colonies; most parts densely glandular; flowers in yellow balls; pods strongly curved, black when dry; spines long and straight.

Grove of trees up to c. 8m tall; larger trunks with some spiny bosses; base slightly fluted and buttressed

Bracts with long, ciliate teeth

Species with shorter, forward pointing teeth on the female bracts

Erect annual with spreading spicate inflorescences; female bracts open with dentate margins.

Large colonies in degraded understorey; female bracts clearly toothed

Very common and weedy in this area.

Extensive colony present

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In fruit

Tendrilous climber, up to 1.2m long; leaves glaucous, fruit light green

Slender species in fruit with deeply, narrowly lobed leaves

Tall specimen, c. 2.5 m high; probably planted in colonial days.

Leaves long petiolate, rhombic-ovate, capitula small; achenes tuberculate

Fronds pilose

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Young plants; not pilose, not winged, margin not serrate

Growing together with Adiantum incisum.

Rhachis winged.

Bulbous base.

Stems leafy, prostrate/ascending; no basal rosette.

Main leaves in a basal rosette; stems ascending/erect.

Very sticky grandular, aromatic, shrubby herb, up to 50 cm high; leaves greyish green; inflorescences terminal, branched; flowers white with purple spots on upper lip. Numerous specimens seen at collection site; common in the area but most specimens more depauperate than collected ones.

Flowers tiny white, Leaves with very short white hairs.

Small ericoid shrub, up to 80 cm high, densely set with sharply pointed leaf-like modified stipules; flowers mostly near the ends of branches, golden yellow with reddish veining.On specimen at collection site but generally frequent in the area.

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Virgate shrub up to 1 m tall, growing in shallow water.

The narrower, lanceolate stipules and the long-stipitate fruit clearly match Aeschynomene mossambicensis and this appears to be the first record of this species from the Manica-Sofala Division.

Fairly high altitude for this variety but all parts almost comletely without glandular hairs

Inflorescence and leaf rhachis glandular hairy.

With inflorescences in bud

In flower

iNaturalist record

iNaturalist record

Very corky bark, leaves a bit like Rapanaea; fruit small woody, split into 4 valves.

Very common particularly on Dichrostachys cinerea