Records made by Hermenegildo Matimele

A yellow flowered bulbous plant. Only one plant seen.

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

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

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

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

Delicate shrublet to 750 mm high in shade of tall mixed miombo escarpment woodland, N-aspect, on sandy soils.

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

Herb to 50 cm tall, brownish old stems and pale greenish younger ones. Leaves serrated, flowers white, axillary. Plant occurring on a flat plain wooded grassland with Syzygium cordatum, Dicerocaryum forbesii, Hyphaene sp.

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

Spathes have white bases with a green lining on top. Yellow flowers. Base of leaves were slightly hairy. Flowers occur in groups at the tip of the stem. Fairly common on these slopes.

This is also a first record of the species and subspecies from Mozambique. The subspecies is otherwise known only from Zimbabwe, South Africa and Swaziland. (Robert Faden pers. comm with Barbara Turpin, 2017).

Suculent herb, 50 cm tall, yellowish green stems as well as leaves, yellowish white flowers

Small, somewhat succulent herb branching from the base c. 12 cm high; branches densely leafy; flowers in axils of leaves, greenish.

Semi-deciduous tree to 9 m tall, bark grey, roughly flaking; occasional in mixed deciduous coastal woodland on sands.

Soft-wooded shrub up to 2.5 m high; flowers in terminal racemose clusters, violet; peducles, pedicels and calyces purple-red with long whitish bristly hairs. Extensive colony at collecting site; locally common in the area

Infested with Helixanthera woodii (Loranthaceae) parasite.

Deciduous tree 4-6 m high; occasional in semi-deciduous woodland; flowers scarlet.

Evergreen tree in dense coastal forest on dunes, landward side on ecotone with grassland.

Tufted sedge to 30cm. Stems spreading, dark green. Nutlets green/brown, terminal and axillary. Locally common.

Evergreen tree to 6 m tall, branching ca. horizontal; on edge of riverine forest dominated by Syzygium guineense.

Occuring in clumps. About 50 cm tall. A few plants seen.

Erect woody shrub 1-2 m high, in degraded/logged woodland in disturbed areas on sandy soils; leaves aromatic when crushed.

Locally common. Grass to about 50 cm tall, leaves hairy beneath, leaf sheath brownish, inflorescence green.

Erect herb to 20 cm. Flrs violet with green tube. Growing in clusters.

Tree up to 5 m height, leaves dark green upperface, pale underneath, fruits green, four lobed

Shrub up to 2 m tall, green leaves, fruits green. Fairly common locally.

Somewhat stunted tree with very leathery leaves in more exposed situation than its normal forest habitat.

Large robust evergreen shrub to 3 m high and 6 m across; in Adansonia-Hyphaene-Acacia-Sterculia woodland on alluvial soils on valley bottom (of Rovuma River).

Several plants both in flower and fruit.

Erect perennial herb to 60 cm, fls mauve-pink with darker pink ring in centre. Stem is dark red. Thin lvs curved upwards, sessile, pale green. Sometimes multiple stems. Locally common.

Erect herb to 40 cm tall. Flrs light pink with dark pink streaks on petals and dark pink throat. Locally common.

Erect annual herbs up to 30 cm high; flowers white. Numerous specimens at collecting site.

Small slender single-stemmed deciduous tree to 5 m, infrutesence pink-purple; in mixed deciduous escarpment woodland on gravelly loam soils.

Dry Caesalp-dominated coastal forest. High in canopy.-x000D- Leaves opposite, very hairy. Flowers yellow with red-yellow stripes in throat. Petals extended. Latex present, clear, turning yellow. Uncommon.-x000D- Photos: 2928, 2929, 2930, Occurrence: uncommon

Small shrubby tree

Tree to 8 m. Dark leathery green lvs. Panicle infl. Flrs not yet open. Flr buds tinged pink.

Large evergreen tree to 15 m or more, hanging over river, component of riverine forest; lower bole massively buttressed like pages in a book.

Deciduous small tree 2.5-3 m high, flowers yellow-cream, bark smooth, pale creamy-yellow powdery; scarce in open mixed deciduous coastal woodland on sands on edge of dambo.

Erect several-stemmed shrub to 2 m tall; in drainage line in degraded woodland on sandy soils.