Collections made by Marianne Hochobes

20 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 20m high. Stem: appears brown-grey, straight paired thorns. Leaves: compound, leaflets obovate, up to 16, leathery. Fruit a legume, grey in colour.

5 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, about 5m high. Stem: yellowish, flaking. Leaves: compound, paripinate, leaflets very small, gland present on petiole. Pods brown, leathery.

20 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, about 20m high. Stem: with big horny knobs. Leaves: compound, leaflets opposite, green, margin with a purple line; rachis covered with hook thorns at the back.

60 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 60cm high. Leaves: ovate, margin serrate. Fruits: green, born on terminal ends of branches, covered with long red trichomes.

50 cm high; Herb; Notes: Tomentose herb, 50cm high. Leaves: ovate, margin dentate. Fruits: with long trichoms, red in colour.

Herb; Notes: Procumbent herb, with rough surface, very hairy along the veins. Fruit: a cucumber armed with horns.

20 cm high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 20m high, with fissured bark. Leaves: compound, opposite, leaflets oblique-asymmetric, bicolourous. Rachis and rachilla red.

Herb 50 cm high. Stem glandular with short hairs. Leaves leathery, elongated, ovate and whorled, spirally arranged. Flowers in terminal raceme, yellow rosettes, filament fused and hairy.

30 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 30cm high. Leaves: alternate, ovate - linear - lanceolate on very short petiole. Fruit: legume, constricted at seeds, terminal.

Herb; Notes: Upright herb. Inflorescence: terminal raceme, flowers orange. Leaves: elliptic, lanceolate.

Erect, smooth with rolled leaves. Inflorescence open, lax panicle, with brownish spikelets. Ligule fringe of hairs inner part.

5 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 5m high. Stem: tomentose. Leaves: compound, leaflets sub-opposite, elliptic, leathery, undersurface tomentose, very short petiolate, petiole tomentose; rachilla thickened where it is connected to main rachis. Fruit: brown woody pod/ legume.

Herb, 0.10 m high. Leaves bicoloured, opposite, cordate, soft, margin hairy.

3 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 3m high. Leaves: elongated-linear.

15 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 15m high. Leaves: compound, leaflets alternate, round, have a grey-green appearance. Growing tips covered with velvet, reddish-brown hairs.

20 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 20cm high, with yellow flowers on long pedicels.

Erect grass 30 cm high. Branched at flattened nodes. Leaves very soft, folded from the base. Inflorescence a spike, it opens up when it gets wet.

Climber; Notes: Climber with leaves palmately lobed, margins dentate, soft tendril attached at petiole base. Flowers: light orange, hairy inside.

2 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 2m high. Leaves: paired, leaflets leathery, 8-10 veined.

3 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 3m high. Leaves: split into 2 leaflets and joined at the bases, where attached to petiole. Stem: brown.

50 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 50cm high. Leaves: alternate, ovate-elliptic, folded in midrib, margin smooth; ligule fringed. Flowers: terminal, orange-yellow.

30 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 30cm high. Flowers: blue. Leaves: elliptic - lanceolate.

20 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 20cm high. Flower: bright yellow. Leaves: single, ovate - elliptic, margin wavy.

60 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 60cm high. Flowers: bright yellow with red stripes. Leaves: trifoliate, leaflets elliptic.

3 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, about 2-3m high. Leaves: single, elliptic, undersurface shiny and above green. Fruit: silver.

Perennial grass, 40 cm high. Short nodes. Inflorescence digitate.

Climber; Notes: Climbing herb. Inflorescence: a spike, cream in colour. Leaves: whorled, arranged around the stem.

Herb, 0.20 m high. Hairy at internodes. Flowers in leaf axils in elongated bracts, white. Leaves opposite, elliptic, margin serrate and wavy.

Grass 40 cm high. Stem flattened, smooth towards the base. Ligule fringe of short hairs. Inflorescence digitate.

2 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 2m high. Branchlets, opposite arranged. Leaves: lax, green. Fruits: green berries, in clusters.

20 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 20cm high. Leaves: opposite. Flowers: appears in whorled arranged bracts, orange.

Grass 70 cm high. Erect, smooth and stiff. Inflorescence a terminal raceme, blackish-green single spikelets.

Perennial, spreading grass. Leaves leathery, basal. Ligule membranous. Inflorescence paniculate, fine spikelets. Filed in WIND under Eragrostis trichophora

Erect, annual grass. Leave margins with long space hairs. Inflorescence lax raceme, with big sessile compact spikelets.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub. Leaves: compound, tomentose, opposite leaflets.

5 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, up to 5m high. Leaves: compound, opposite, leaflets sub-opposite arranged, tomentose, subsessile. Fruit: green, legume, leathery, constricted at seeds.

Herb; Notes: Hairy, prostrate herb. Flower: head in leaf axils. Leaves: opposite, with brown centre, margin serrate.

Herb; Notes: Prostrate herb. Leaves: opposite, minute, green.

30 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 30cm high. Flowers: single, blue in colour.

Herb; Notes: Procumbent herb. Leaves: linear. Flowers: purple, minute.

Herb; Notes: Procumbent herb. Flowers: purple, clustered, stamen more than 5. Leaves: linear-lanceolate, bicolourous. Stem: red.

1 m high; Geophyte; Notes: Geophyte, about 1m high. Leaves: single. Flowers: yellow, tubular.

0.5 m high; Geophyte; Notes: Geophyte, 0.5m high. Leaves: whorled, ovate, apex end in tendrils, base broadly tapering. Flower: bright orange/ yellow corolla in six whorled lobes; 6 stamen. Exposure: shade.

Climber; Notes: Fleshy climber, on host Dialium. Leaves: whorled arranged, apex tendrillate. Flowers: red- orange, terminal.

Herb; Notes: Prostrate herb, soft hairy. Leaves: obovate. Inflorescence: a terminal spike, white flowers.

2 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 2m high. Stem: rounded. Leaves: soft textured, alternate, base assymetric, apex acute. Fruit: pedicel split in 2, each one bearing a single or paired berry, green-yellow.

2 m high; Shrub; Notes: Stiff hairy shrub, 2m high. Leaves: papery, rough surface, margin dentate, base rounded, apex acute, alternate. Flowers: axillary, calyx yellowish, recurved, corolla yellow recurved, many stamens. Stem: round.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub with squared stem and tendrils. Inflorescence: terminal flowers white, minute. Leaves: whorled, margins dentate.

10 cm high; Herb; Notes: Upright herb, 10cm high, with compound leaves, folded in midrib. Flowers: pink. Fruit: green, legume.

Herb; Notes: Prostrate, tomentose herb. Inflorescence a spike. Flowers: pink.

0.5 m high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 0.5m high. Stem: yellowish. Leaves: linear. Fruits: cream, sessile, 4 projections found on the tip. Flowers: on a long pedicel, tubular, cream.

Suffrutex 60 cm high. Stem square. Leaves opposite, ovate. Margin serate, venation prominent on the under surface. Flowers clustered, minute, tubular, purple. Fruits lilac berries.

50 cm high; Herb; Notes: Smooth stemmed, dark green herb, 50cm high. Flower: minute, white, sessile. Leaves: linear. Fruits: translucent, round.

0.5 m high; Shrub; Suffrutex; Notes: Suffrutex shrub, 0.5m high. Leaves: compound, leaflets opposite, sessile to sub-sessile, tomentose, obovate to elliptic. Inflorescence: a panicle. Flower: opposite, yellow, trumpet-shape.

2 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 2m high. Leaves: compound, opposite, shiny appearance.

0.5 m high; Shrub; Notes: Low shrub, 0.5m high. Flowers: deep blue. Leaves: trifoliate, terminal leaflet larger than the other two.

50 cm high; Suffrutex; Notes: Suffrutex, 50cm high. Leaves: trifoliate, leathery, obovate. Flowers: terminal, mauve.

Shrub; Notes: Low shrublet, with leathery, elongated leaves, alternate. Terminal growing tips on leaflets.

20 cm high; Herb; Notes: Aromatic herb, 20cm high. Stem: hairy, squared. Leaves: opposite, ovate, margins dentate. Inflorescence: terminal, flowers found in bracts, minute.

0.5 m high; Geophyte; Notes: Single stemmed geophyte, 0.5m high. Leaves: single broadly lanceolate-elliptic. Inflorescence: a panicle with orange flowers. Underground organ: bulb, with brown horizontal stripes.

1 m high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 1m high. Elongated-ovate, leaves are found at the nodes. Inflorescence: terminal raceme, bright orange flowers.

Herb; Notes: Procumbent herb. Flowers: light pink, rosette shape. Leaves: alternate, hairy, linear, ligule with long hairs.

50 cm high; Herb; Notes: Soft lax herb, 50cm high. Leaves: linear-ovate, ligule fringe with long hairs. Flowers: alternate, white rosettes.

50 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 50cm high. Leaves: linear, lax, tomentose, herb; ligule fringe. Flowers: white, single, terminal, rosette shaped.

Erect grass, 1 m high. Stem thick, 1 cm in diameter, hairy at the nodes. Inflorescence paniculate, first row of the inflorescence whorled, other alternately arranged. Spikelets purplish.

Herb; Suffrutex; Notes: Procumbent, suffrutex herb. Leaves: bicoloured, elliptic, base tapering, texture leathery, petiole thickened. Fruits: brown, round to oval.

Shrub; Suffrutex; Notes: Low suffrutex shrub. Leaves: leathery, bicolourous, shiny green above and grey undersurface, elliptic-lanceolate.

Herb; Notes: Procumbent herb. Leaves: cordate on a long petiole. Flowers: orange; calyx and epi-calyx green.

3 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 3m high. Leaves: compound, leaflets opposite, rachis reddish-brown, hairy. Fruit: 2-seeded, flattened.

15 cm high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 15cm high. Rachis velvet, rush-brown. Leaves: compound, leaflets mucronate, bicolourous. Fruit: brown, legume, one seeded.

Erect grass, 60 cm high. Leaves basel, ovate, margins ciliate. Inflorescence a terminal spike, about 15 cm long.

10 cm high; Herb; Notes: Small herb, 10cm high. Leaves: linear, alternate. Fruit: green.

12 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 12m high, leaves very big, deep lobed at the apex, base auriculate, 4 main veins going out from the base on each leaflet; petiole thickened at the base.

20 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, about 20m high. Leaves: alternate, ovate-elliptic. Fruit: round with long trichomes in the centre.

Herb; Notes: Procumbent herb. Leaves: cordate, trifoliate. Inflorescence: a raceme with yellow flowers.

1 m high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 1m high, with a squared single stem, glandular, hairy. Flowers: pink, trumpet-shaped. Leaves: on 10cm long petiole, digitate, elliptic to linear - lanceolate.

0.5 m high; Herb; Notes: Soft hairy herb, 0.5m high. Flowers: palmately lobed, centre yellow, anthers yellow. Leaves: broadly elliptic.

40 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 40cm high. Leaves: broadly elliptic, margin lobed. Flowers: purple with yellow anthers.

Climber; Notes: Climber, covered with irritating hairs. Flowers: maroon.

Climber; Herb; Notes: Climbing herb with silver, irritating hairs. Leaves: opposite, elliptic. Flowers: yellow.

15 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 15cm high. Leaves: spirally arranged, stiff hairy. Flowers: tubular, in bracts, purple in colour.

20 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 20cm high. Flowers: tubular, in leaf axils, bright orange, rosette shaped. Leaves: alternate.

50 cm high; Herb; Notes: Aromatic herb, 50cm high. Inflorescence: terminal, flowers deep mauve. Leaves: undersurface with prominent veins, lanceolate elliptic, margin dentate. Stem: grooved, tomentose.

50 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, about 40 - 50cm high. Leaves: ovate-elliptic, aromatic, margin dentate. Flowers: whitish-pink, terminal.

50 cm high; Herb; Notes: Zigzag stemmed herb, 50cm high. Leaves: compound, leaflets opposite. Flowers: pink. Pods: green, elongated, opposite arranged.

6 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 6m high. Leaves: clustered at spine base. Fruit: flattened, one seeded. Browsed by elephant.

1 m high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 1m high, with a stem armed with reddish trichomes. Flowers: terminal, bright orange, corolla 5-lobed and broadly ovate; calyx yellowish-green, hispid. Leaves: ovate-lanceolate, margin dentate.

Erect grass, 1.2 m high. Leaves leathery, ligule fringe of hairs inner part. Inflorescence terminal. Spikelets big brown and awned each.

Climber; Notes: Climbing herb, with rough surface. Flowers: on a long petiole, bright purple. Leaves: trifoliate, leaflet base palmately lobed; petiole base stipulate.

60 cm high; Herb; Notes: Tomentose herb, 60cm high. Leaves: broadly ovate, margins dentate. Inflorescence axillary, flowers white, minute.

1 m high; Shrub; Notes: Tomentose shrub, 1m high. Leaves: alternate, tomentose, base tapering, apex emarginate, margin hairy.

Tree; Notes: Tree, about 6m high. Leaves: shiny green, armed with 1 hooked and 1 straight thorn.