Records made by Jonathan Timberlake

Pink-flowered Abutilon; shrub c. 2 m tall.

Woody herb to 1.5 m. Large toothed leaves, mostly terminal. Conspicuous clusters of axillary flowers in axils, often without leaves. Brilliant red curved flowers with extruding yellow stamens.

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

Inflorescences lax with long spicate branches, resembling A. ukamensis but stems all prostrate with leaves apparently clustered on short branchlets and flowers with lower lip reflexed, indicating A. serpiculoides

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.

Shrub up to 2 m tall, green leaves upface, pale underneath. Fruits dark green.

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.

A shrub, up about 51cm tall. Yellow flowers with very big stipules.

Multistemmed shrub to 3 m. Flowers yellow witn brown markings.

Flowering after fire.

Mostly young trees; upper altitude reach for this species.y

Arvore, caule rugosa, folhas recompostas,

A yellow flowered bulbous plant. Only one plant seen.

Shrub to 2 m. Inflorescence terminal. Understorey of Guibourtia dry forest.-x000D- Biodiversity Survey of Coastal dry Forests in Northern Mozambique

Herb to 50 cm tall, green leaves, dark brown stems, flowers yellow with brown vertical lines outside petals, fruits orange. Scattered locally

Herb to 50 cm tall, green leaves, dark brown stems, flowers yellow with brown vertical lines outside petals, fruits orange

Unbranched herb c. 20 cm high; flowers golden yellow

Herb to 20cm. Yellow flowers. Dark green leaves, purplish stems

Erect unbranched herb, up to 20 cm high; flowers yellow

Both flowers and roots yellow. Stem slightly sticky. Fairly common locally.

Basal rosette leaves with a parsley smell when crushed. Most plants appear to have finished flowering due to the presence of old inflorescence. Fairly common here.

A branching Aloe with a 50cm long inflorescence. Some leaves have a red tint, especially near the tip. Tips of the leaves curl backwards.

Growing with stunted Podocarpus latifolius

Pendent pant with orange infl curving upwards to 30 cm. Oblong, narrow leaf. Single infl.

Erect succulent with an erect stem up to 90 cm high; leaves distichous, long and pointed; flowers in elongated terminal racemes, orange-red

Small aloe c. 35 cm high; leaves rosulate; inflorescence sub capitate.

Small grass Aloe to 30cm. Leaves narrow, margins slightly spiny. Flowers pale red, few in terminal raceme, fairly large.

50 cm shrub, with 1 m inflorescence stalk, orange flowers. One individual seen locally

Edge of Guibourtia - Pteleopsis dry forest.-x000D- Notes: Large tree to 16 m, dbh 42 cm. Bark fissured, grey. Leaves bipinnate. Flowers white, thecae yellow. Pods (on ground) angular, dark brown. Locally common on dry forest margin.

Flowering. The record and image are online at https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/search/botany/ and may be found by searching for Barcode 00578065.

Erect herb up to 90 cm high; leaves crowded near the base; flowering stem purple brown, hairy; flowers creamy white with a heart of yellow stamens. One specimen see at collection site but occasional in the area

Herb 1 m, white sunlight flowers like, maroon stems, hairy stems.

iNaturalist record

Small shrub with young branches regrowing from older, previously burnt dry remains.

Small unbranched annual herbs 8-18 cm tall; flowers in terminal heads, c 1-1.5 cm in diameter; mauve-pink. Generally very common in the area

Scrambling herb; branches up to 1 m long, reddish, with long, whitish, spreading hairs; flowers violet. Several specimens at collection site; generally frequent in the area

Virgate shrub c. 1,7 m tall. One specimen seen at collection site; frequent in the area.

Shrublet c. 40 cm tall with numerous erect branches. Mostly over at this time of year.

Small shrub up to 1.7 m tall, branching and densely leave above; leaves linear; flowers in axillary clusters greenish-yellow very small. Several specimens at collection site; locally frequent in the area.

Growing together with other ericoid vegetation such as Helychrysum, Polygala, Erica pleiotricha and stunted Podocarpus.

Ericoid shrublet up to 1.5 m densely leafy; leaves bright green linear. Frequent throughout

Small branched shrublet c. 50 cm high densely covered in small whorls of sessile leaves with needle-like leaflets, almost appearing as being 3-foliolate; flowers very small, sessile among the leaves, greenish-yellow. One specimen at collection site; generally occasional in the area. One specimen at collection site; generally occasional in the area.

Shrub to 50 cm. Small/thin green lvs in whorls. Ericoid. Small, sessile yellow fls. Many branches. Male plant.

Small shrublet up to 60 cm tall; densely covered in small overlapping whorls of needle-like leaves, densely greyish green hairy when young. Frequent throughout

A 4m tall tree with reddish fls. New leaves reddish.

Tree to 6 m tall with arching branches. Fruits green with velvety grey-green hairs; seeds with bright orange aril.

Small tree to 5 m. Leaves sub-opposite. Inflorescence terminal. Fruits flattened, ± winged.

Perennial herbs up to 70 cm high with a fan of sword-shaped leaves overlapping at the base; inflorescence shortly branched; flowers deep blue. Several specimens seen

Shallow-roted herb to 1.3m. Leaves sheathing like Iris; base of leaves swollen, curved forwards. Flowers scattered up flowering shoots, open, non-tubular, bright blue. Ovary swollen. Very local.

Very common

Small herb about 20 cm tall with white-reddish flowers. Milky latex.

Herb, green long and narrow leaves, fruits brownish green, stems green, milky latex

Herb to 20cm. Linear leaves. Flowers in nodding terminal and axilliary heads; deep pink with white markings. One specimen seen in flower.

Perennial herb, 60 cm tall, fruits green immature, turning red when ripe

Low woody herb, scrambling on rock. No fruit or flowers.

Scrambling herb; stems woody, phyllodes quite prickly. No flowers/fruits.

Woody climbing herb to 2.5 m. Flowers white. Fruits green. Local in clump of Oxytenanthera bamboo, secondary dry forest.-x000D- [Det. as Asparagus flagellaris (Kunth) Baker sens. lat. (A. paulii-guilelmii Solms form) by Sebsebe Demissew 2009]

Locally common but easily overlooked

Tufted fern to 20 cm on forest floor.

One specimen seen

Herb about 40 cm tall with a single terminal flowerhead with white-ray florets and yellow centre. Leaves with red prominent lateral veins, smooth with rough edges. Roots lateral.

iNaturalist record

Cited in Harris, Darbyshire & Polhill, Kew Bulletin 66(2): 247, 2011.

Tree to 12 m, canopy spreading. Bark light grey, corky, fissured, very few spines. Twigs soft. Leaflets paired, rounded, blue-green, fleshy. Young pods long, lime-green, longitudinally-furrowed, woody inside. Local. Berlinia woodland to low forest, w

A creeper with cream flowers. Young branches either green or maroonish with tendrils which cling to grasses.

Somewhat fleshy herb; stems and branches bright red; leaves very asymmetric at the base, yellowish-greenwith reddish margins; fruit flreshy bright red, winged. One specimen seen at collection site; occassional in the area

Sub-canopy tree to 6 m. Leaves clustered terminally, with winged rachis. Fruit large, green, axillary, splitting open later.

Tree c. 7 m tall; leaves imparipinnate; fruit woody with a very wrinkled surface, c. 2 cm in diameter, splitting into 4 valves. One specimen seen at collection site

60-80 cm errect annual herb. Yellow capitula with 5-6 rays.

iNaturalist record

Sub-canopy tree to 18 m, trunk tall, branching high. Slight curtaining on lower trunk. Bark greyish, pale with horizontal lenticels. Slash red-brown, thin. Saplings to 4 m. Leaves pinnate, leaflets sub-opposite, glossy green, leathery.

Small understory tree to 3 m. Bark smooth, dark. Leaves dark green, glossy.

Lithophytic fern on quartzite boulders in stream. Creeping robust rhizome. Fronds deeper blue-green; none fertile.

Stem green with strikes of pink. Leaves clasping stem tightly and overlapping, tips and margins of leaves pinkish. Flowers pink with corolla yellow inside lip. Lower lip curling backwards upon itself. Each flower subtended by a bract. Very few plants seen

Tree

Spreading tree to 4 or 8 m, sometimes with multiple stems. Bark smooth, light grey, heavily covered in lichens. Fine narrow leaflets, drooping in rain or at night.

Spreading canopy tree to 8m, canopy open. Up to 20 leaflet pairs, not overlapping; middle leaflets largest. Pods woody, all fallen and dehisced, 4-5 seeded. Dominant species here.

Large spreading open-canopied tree to 15 m. Leaves pinnate, fine-leaved, 22-24 leaflet pairs.

Patch of low-branching trees to 4m high. Trunks heavily crusted with lichens. Buds large, ovoid; sometimes much smaller. Six pairs of leaflets. Rachis softly but sparsely hairy. Leaves glossy green, leathery. Some pink-flushed young growth. Pods woody, massive.

Shrub to 1.5 m. Leaves glossy green, 2-3 pinnae pairs; stipular bud somewhat flattened.

Spreading canopy tree to 10 m, branching low. Bark dark, flaking. Leaves glossy green, terminal pair largest; buds rounded.

Tree to 10 m, spreading canopy, branching low. Bark rough, fissured grey. Leaves with 4 pinnae pairs. Young pods green, massive, woody, strongly ridged on one side

Tree to 10 m, spreading canopy, branching low. Bark rough, fissured grey. Leaves with 4 pinnae pairs. Young pods green, massive, woody, strongly ridged on one side. Dominant tree in Brachystegia woodland.

Tree to 8 m, with spreading canopy. Bark fissured, grey-brown. Leaves flushing yellow-green/brown. Flowers open, greenish.

Notes: Tree to 8 m, with spreading canopy. Bark fissured, grey-brown. Leaves flushing yellow-green/brown. Flowers open, greenish. Locally common in open miombo woodland on hillside.

Distinctive corky bark, reveailing bright orange nderbark when damaged.

Arbusto com 8m de altura, caule amarelo esbranquissado, casca amarela, flores brancos.

Small tree to 5 m. New leaves but older fruits.

Shrub to 1.5 m; young growth. Flowers clustered in axils with leaves, petals cream-white, reflexed

Guibourtia - Pteleopsis dry forest.-x000D- Notes: Tree to 6 m, branching very low. Slash with powder yellow streak. Bark deeply fissured, very brown. Leaves small, alternate, serrate, bright green, youong growth slightly flattened. Fruits hanging, in 3s, m

Terestrial herb, c. 30 cm high; flowers in dense terminal inflorescence, pale mauve-pink with darker markings; spur darker purplish, curved. Two specimens seen

Erect herb to 30 cm. Flrs mauve. Few flowered heads clustered at top of stems. Several stems. Locally common

Erect perennial herb to 40 cm. Growing in patches. Thin stem, reddish. Thin leaves. Purple fls.

Small herb about 20 cm tall with purple flowers. Stem purple with young branches green but turning purple when mature. Leaves narrow and smooth when young, becoming rough when mature. Roots lateral.

Erect annual herb c. 60 cm tall. Corolla lobes blue-purple, tube and outside of lobes paler.

Erect herb up to 40 cm high; leaves in a basal rosette, appressed to the soil; flowering stem sparsely branched towards the top, leafless except for one pair of small bract-like spreading leaves; flowers mauve. Common in the collection site

Erect annual herb to 15 cm. Reddish stem. Basal rosette of lvs. Violet fls. Terminal infl. Scattered.

Unbranched herbs up to 40 cm high; leaves mostly near the base and on the lower stem; flowers in a short, dense terminal head, mauve-purple, densely white hairy in the corolla throat. Common at this site

Very long inflorescences in fruit.

low-level epiphyte iNaturalist record

Epiphytic orchid on Englerophytum tree branch, with long thick aerial roots. Narrow linear leaves. Some fruit capsules.

Leaves hairy with a single inflorescence. Common in the area.

Erect annual herb to 30 cm. White flr. Locally common.

Small, slender tree, c. 2.5 m tall; stem with straight spines in whorls of 3; leaves dark green, leathery; fruit irregularly 2-lobed, mottled green. Only one specimen seen

Small shrub c. 1 m high in flower.

Shrub or small tree to 2 m. Leaves dark green, alternate. Flowers underneath, axillary, clustered, white with maroon upper wing. Rare in Guibourtia - Pteleopsis dry forest, possibly on edge of termite mound.

Shrub to 15 cm. Flowers yellow-cream.

Locally common understorey in mid-altitude moist evergreen forest., Occurrence: locally common

Small tree, 2 m tall, leaves green, blackish stems, flowers white, fruits blackish unripe, turning black when ripe.

Annual herb with many branches from a decumbent base. Tepals white, flower pink within.

Buttressed tree to 25 m, partly fallen. Shallow root plate. Bark lenticelled, foetid smell when cut. Leaves asymmetric at base. Fruits small, round, stalked.

Aromatic creeping, scrambling herb

Herbarium catalogue Meise (BR)

HOLOTYPE
Slender climbing herb with stems up to 60 cm long; milky sap present; leaves filiform to linear; flowers solitary, axillary, up to 2 cm long; basal swelling creamy yellow, corolla tube increasingly streaked with dark purple towards the top; lobes erect, forming a cage, dark purple, densely set with long spreading hairs. Only one specimen seen