Records made by Azwad Iqbal

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

Leaves not hairy; rhachis winged.

Fertile

Flower buds galled

Slender erect to somewhat scrambling herb, upto 60 cm high.

Tall climber into Hagenia trees.

Female plant

Female shrub in fruit

Male shrub

Pedicels and calyx pubescent.

Twining on Hypoestes forskaolii

Very large tall specimen; this is tree no. 2 on the marked trail in Zovo Chipolo Forest on Nyika.

Very short sedge flowering profusely in large patches after recent fires have burnt the grasslands.

Shrub, mostly leafless while flowering.

Stems hairy, particularly blow the leaves.

In fruit. Leaves broad, hairless, in whorls of three.

Slender annual herb with brown wiry stem.

Leafless but on somewhat taller stems (up to 35 cm), probably because the grass has not (yet) been burnt.

Prostrate herb; flowers with black spots on the margins of the petals.

One of the most abundant species on the Nyika. Found almost everywhere even forming extensive colonies of small shrubs stunted by fires out in the open grasslands.

Infested by Cuscuta kilimanjari

Scrambling herb, Dicliptera-like, with white flowers.

Scrambling shrubby, wiry herb; flowers small wine red; pods short, glandular hairy.

Old drying basal leaves only

In fruit

Epiphytic in fork of Nuxia congesta tree

Stunted cushion-shaped regrowth well-browsed by bushbuck.

Mostly leafless shrubs to 2.5 m; in flower.

Only sample of flower collected in silica-gel. Plant completely leafless after fire.

Shrub c. 2 m high;, old flowers in clusters; leaves densely velvety hairy.

Large shrub-like species with robust, densely red ciliate-hairy stems

Almost erect small shrub, 1 m high; most parts densely greyish-green velvety; leaves almost all 3-foliolate, densely velvety beneath.

This appears to be a first record for the Nyika Plateau and the Northern Division of Malawi.

In flower

In fruit

With old fruit

In flower

Tall virgate herb with large purple flowers