Collections made by Bart Wursten

In flower

In fruit.

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

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Petiole short with a squat gland; bark pale grey

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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.

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In fruit

Fronds pilose

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Flowers tiny white, Leaves with very short white hairs.

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

Bulbous herb, c. 30 cm high, inflorescence sparsely branched; flowers whitish with broad brownish line down the centre of each tepal

Unbranched erect herb, most parts purplish, some small green leaves;flowers golden yellow with very hairy stamens.

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

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Unusual pale-flowered form

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Fruit as long or longer than perianth segments

Fruit dark, as long or longer than tepals

Calyx lobes clearly overlapping, with rufus ciliate hairs; fruit clearly ridged not much exserting the calyx; plant decumbent.

With old fruit

Annual

Unbranched annuals with square stems, somewhat winged near the top; leaves linear-lanceolate, auriculate-sagittate at the base. Flowers in few-flowered axillary inflorescences on longish wiry peduncles.

Proliferous

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Clearly perennial herb with strong rootstock.

In fruit

Many inflorescences infested with galls

Bright yellow form

"plumosus" form

"plumosus" form

Erect white-flowered herb with mostly solitary pedicellate flowers in the leaf axils. This appears to be a first record for the Manica-Sofala Division in Mozambique.

smallish coppice growth

In fruit

In fruit

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