Collections made by Giess

Tree; Notes: Young trees up to 4m in height. Much branched. New shoots partly because of fire.

5 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub. Bark greyish brown. Quoted in: Prodromus einer Flora von Sdwestafrika 58:8 (1967).

Shrub; Notes: Shrub up to 1.5 meter high.

8 m high; Tree; Notes: 8 meter high tree. Quoted in: Prodromus einer Flora von Sdwestafrika 58:12 (1967).

Notes: Many-stemmed 'forb' up to 50 cm high and 1 m in diameter.

60 cm high; Herb; Notes: Annual herb. Rich, grey-black soil.

Tree; Notes: Regrowth from felled tree.

Notes: Rosette plant. Relatively spreading. Runner, with numerous young plants. The inflorescence is 1,4m high and has 7 branches. The flowers are an old pink colour. The involures have white edges. Life plant. Flowered in the garden of W. Giess, Windhoek. 22 June 1971.Sheet 3.

Herb; Notes: Annual, prostrate to decumbent, almost leafless. Soil grey-black. Harvested mahango field.

Graminoid; Notes: Up to 3 m high omuramba-grass. Used to build huts and roofs.

Notes: Lower lip pointed, boat shaped folded and margin very crenulate. Flower coloue intensier that at Andara. Plants fruiting in hort WG, Windhoek.

1 m high; Shrub; Notes: Low spreading shrub on rocks. 1 m high. Fruit round, red to black. Rocky bank.

Up to 2,50 m high in other shrubs. Filed at WIND under Asparagus cooperi

Climber, more than 1 m high winding in bush. Petals very narrow (0,5 mm) white with reddish veins. Sweet scent. Fruit up to 7 mm diameter, more or less inconspicuously tri-lobed, 2 lobes not completely developed.

Graminoid; Notes: Heavy, clay, grey-black ground. Spikelets sessile. Seeds pointed, narrow, seemingly pressed together.

Tree; Notes: Small tree.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub, up to 1.50 m high.

Shrub; Tree; Notes: Shrub or tree.

Notes: Prostrate to upright. Shoots to 50 cm long. Sheaths often very small in leaf axils. Terminal sheaths round, boat-like. Flowers blue. Live plant together with Eulophobia sp. from Andara. Flowers in garden of W. Giess, Windhoek. Corr. nom.: SB 8.2003.

Notes: Decumbent to procumbent, twining in grass. Flowers small, white.

Shrub; Notes: Dry shrub with fruit.

pteridophyte; Notes: Fronds up to 60 cm long. Growing in or nearly in water. Common. Corr. nom.: E. Klaassen 23.07.07

Graminoid; Notes: Tufted grass up to 1.20 m high. Very common.

Notes: Twining in small camelthorn. Milky latex.

Graminoid;

Climibing over Piliostigma thonningii shrub, sterile.

Erect, annual grass.

Shrub; Notes: Dense shrub up to 1.50 m high. Root and branches used as tooth brush by natives.

4 m high; Tree; Notes: Dry woodland. Small tree, 4 m high. Bark grey, very corky.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub.

Notes: Dry woodland.

Graminoid; Notes: Perennial tufted grass up to 70 cm high.

50 cm high; Shrub; Notes: 50 cm high shrub; pale bark. Soft leaves. In semi-shade.

Shrub; Notes: Usually in half shade of riverine woodland of omuramba. Shrubs around 1.50 m tall.

Notes: Plant of 20 cm diameter (in pot). Leaves stiff, upright, up to 20 cm high at flowering, later up to 30 cm high. 8 In florescences up to 1 m high, up to 20 flowered. Flowers green with darker venation, with brownish tinge. Lip and spur white-purple with dark purple venation.

Notes: Flowers before leaves. Inflorescence up to 1,20 m high. Flowers yellow. Lips with brownish ribs.

Herb; Notes: Finely haired herb with pale blue, small flowers.

Tree; Notes: Slanting, ascending tree. Bark grey with big, falling stigmas on the stem. Corr. nom.: S. Rgheimer 5.2007.

Notes: Bulbs received from Prof. Dr. O. Khler for identification purposes. Veldkos of bushmen. Knolle with light, fibreous outer layer and numerous new bulbs, which are up to pea-size. Erect plant, up to 60 cm high. Flowers sulphur yellow, with very fine red stripes, which are unconspicuous. Bulbs were received in October 1968. Khwe-name: /on.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub, up to 1.20 m high, many stemmed, to 1.50 m diameter.

Notes: Up to 2 m high shrub with angular stems and branches. Berries single or in pairs.

Notes: Spreading prostrate. Bracts white to pink. Relatively common.

Graminoid; Notes: Heavy grey-black clay soil.

Notes: Stems up to 10 cm tall. Flowers 45 cm in diameter. Lobes long, thin and long tip, yellow. Margins reflexed. Tube 5 mm deep, 10 mm in diameter, wine red with pale base around corana.

Graminoid; Notes: Up to 1.30 m high tufted grass in small stands.

Perennial.

Graminoid; Notes: Dry woodland.

Herb; Notes: Annual up to 1 metre high, base somewhat woody.

Annual herb. Flowers pale violet.

Perennial graminoid. Branched at base.

Climber; Notes: Climber in other shrubs. Fruit 5 cm long and 2,5 cm in diameter. Ripe fruit in an acute beak terminating with inconspicuous spots when ripe.

10 m high; Tree; Notes: Many stemmed, thornless tree, 12 m crown diameter and height of 10 m, branched from the base. Bark grey-black.

Dwarf shrub; Notes: Dwarf shrub, up to 15 cm high. Growing in colonies.

2.5 m high; Shrub; Notes: Up to 2.50 m high shrub. In semi-shade of bigger tree.

Notes: Moist tree-shrub.

Notes: Multi-stemmed plant, up to 1.80 m high. Shoots from tree stump.

Shrub; Notes: Up to 50 cm high shrub with twining twigs and 4-partite capsules.

Herb, woody at base. Branches arched, decumbent and rooting at nodes. Flowers pale violet.

10 cm high; Herb; Notes: 10 cm high herb, branched from the base. Flowers in dense inflorescences, appearing silver-white. Common.

Notes: Small, annual herb up to 10 cm high. Flowers greenish-white with red overflow.

Plants up to 1.5 m tall.

Notes: Leaves up to 7 cm wide and up to 40 cm long. Leaves margin entire (not rough).

Peduncle 15 cm high, 3/4 without spots. Flowers bright red.

Graminoid.

Shrub; Notes: Up to 3 m high, dense shrub. Rocky banks.

Notes: Shrubby plant.

Up to 90 cm tufted grass. Leaves and culms coloured red.

Graminoid; Notes: Tufted grass. Relatively common.

Herb; Notes: Small, up to 15 cm high,herb. Flowers very small, bright vermilion.Quoted in: Kew Bull. 41(1): 207

10 cm high; Parasite; Notes: 10 cm high. Flowers light violet. Parasite on root of Vigna sinensis.

Herb; Notes: Annual, upright herb, aromatic, up to 50 cm tall.

Notes: Twining in other shrubs; burning/stinging.

1 m high; Notes: 1 m high.

Herb; Notes: Annual herb. Up to 30 cm high. Flowers red - violet. Grew on loamy soil on ploughed Mahango field.

Notes: Consisting of a woody base, it can reach heights of 50 cm upwards.

Herb; Notes: Annual, woody herb. Common.