Collections made by Mike Bingham

Tree 8 m high.

Gwembe Distr.; Chipepo E.

Suffrutex in fallow field.

Trailing herb. Flower.

Massive vine covering two trees, in prolific bloom, and attracting bees in great numbers, clearly audible at 50m. Male flowers, slightly scented; pollen creamy-white.

Male flower buds (green)

Tips of fronds take root when they touch ground

Aquatic with floating stems.

Shrub, ca. 2 m tall. Stipules large. Flower orange.

Shrub on suffrutex plain.

Common

Flower

Tube pink.

Flower.

Cultivated. Flower. (ex. Nat. Bot. Gard., Harare.

Bark smooth, pale. Stamens pink basally. A single sapling and a few seedlings or root suckers nearby

Flower

Cultivated. Flower. (ex Zambezi escarpment, Zambia).

Flower.

With Salix and Phragmites.

Flowers

Flowers white.

Weed in reservoir.

Fruit attract green pigeons.

Two very local populations found.

Annual

Weed in cultivation.

River bank at foot of gorge. Caudex erect.

Tree; occasional in Kalahari woodland; to 8 m; leaves dull green; fruits light green.

determined as Bothriocline laxa

determined as Bothriocline laxa

Lake Kariba. Open woodland.

Forming large tufts.

Coppiced tree

Tree in village: Identification: two leaflet pairs; panicles behind the leaves on 1-year-old growth.

Tree

Dominant tree.

Stunted tree, 4m high. Flowers.

Local at woodland margins.

Dominant woodland tree.

Sterile.

Tree in riverine forest.

Small tree at foot of steep hill. Wavy leaflet margins distinguished this from B.floribunda. Sterile.

Tree in woodland and riverine fringe. ‘Muzombo’ (Lungu)

Woodland codominant.

Seedlings.

Shrub in thicket.

Annual herb, erect, sticky glandular.

NU: Tentative, "spikelets mostly disintegrated")

Shrub, ca. 1 m high, common in thicket.

Cultivated from seed obtained from the Zimbabwe National Botanic Gardens.

Miombo woodland.

Flowers in bud

Small tree.

Small tree, 4 m high, elsewhere to 6 m. Deciduous.

Small tree.

Much-branched evergreen tree.

Weed.

Suffrutex.

Straggling herb in grass.

Flower

Flower

Small tree, 6 m high, with straight bole; bark bluish, peeling off in papery strips.

Fruit. Bole slightly fluted.

Tree on termite mound.

Fruit.

Shrub in Itigi thicket.

Small tree, 4 m high, tending to be scandent. Fruit.

Tree, medium-sized. Few seen.

Temporary pool

Temporary pool

Rooted in mud.

This record was originally mistakenly believed to be Crinum graminicola but that species is restricted to South Africa and does not occur in Zambia.

Tree in woodland. Flowers pink.

Spreading and upright; stems dull green; calyx very light green; standard a dull yellow-light orange, inside brighter yellow; wings bright yellow; keel light green; young pods light green.

Frequent, among grasses; calyx green; bracteole deep red-purple; standard pale orange with darker red-purple stripes; wings similar; keel pale orange at beak, light green proximally.

Occasional; annual; calyx light green; standard yellow with red-purple streaks outside, brighter yellow inside with streaks; wings bright yellow; keel light green becoming tinged with purple on tops.

Abundant at roadsides.

Ruderal.

Erect habit.

Locally abundant; shrub to 2 m; standard yellow with dark purple nerves, lighter inside; wings yellow with light purple nerves; keel green at base, purple-black at upper margin and at beak; pods inflated green, some with red-purple colour.

Occasional; shrub; to 1.5 m; stems early woody; herbaceous; stems light purple; heteroblastic; buds yellow to green; base of calyx purple to green on lobes; standard deep purple-red; streaked to edge where it is yellow; keel green; wings yellow.

Shrub to 1.5 m tall and spreading to 2 m wide; hairs silvery on stems; calyx green tinged and speckled in deep red; standard bright yellow inside with red splotch at base on back; wings orange-yellow; keel green with red specks and deeper red at beak.

Shrub, 1.5m tall.

Prostrate habit.

Occasional; annual or perennial with taproot; calyx light green; standard yellow with darker red nerves in and out; wings and keel yellow to light green, DNA.

Glaucous.

Erect annual.

Abundant in depressions.

Annual weed.

Weed of cultivation.

In bays, forming colonies at water's edge.

Weed in maize garden.

Very large plant, glaucous, culms 3-angled & grooved on sides.

Shrub in thicket.

Scandent shrub

Widespread and common; twiner; prostrate and climbing; stems tinged in red; calyx green; standard green outside, red at tip to light green inside; wings light purple to white at claw; keel light green to white.