Collections made by Petra Ballings

Standing upright

Fruit with more than 23 very long-awned carpels

Very common and weedy in this area.

Extensive colony present

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In fruit

Tendrilous climber, up to 1.2m long; leaves glaucous, fruit light green

Tall specimen, c. 2.5 m high; probably planted in colonial days.

Leaves long petiolate, rhombic-ovate, capitula small; achenes tuberculate

Fronds pilose

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Young plants; not pilose, not winged, margin not serrate

Stems leafy, prostrate/ascending; no basal rosette.

Main leaves in a basal rosette; stems ascending/erect.

Very sticky grandular, aromatic, shrubby herb, up to 50 cm high; leaves greyish green; inflorescences terminal, branched; flowers white with purple spots on upper lip. Numerous specimens seen at collection site; common in the area but most specimens more depauperate than collected ones.

Flowers tiny white, Leaves with very short white hairs.

Small ericoid shrub, up to 80 cm high, densely set with sharply pointed leaf-like modified stipules; flowers mostly near the ends of branches, golden yellow with reddish veining.On specimen at collection site but generally frequent in the area.

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

Fairly high altitude for this variety but all parts almost comletely without glandular hairs

With inflorescences in bud

In flower

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Very common particularly on Dichrostachys cinerea

female tree.the fruits are green, with three lobules, terminal flowers.

male tree with red flowers below the leaves

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

Unusual pale-flowered form

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.

Proliferous

Erect herb up to 90 cm high; leaves crowded near the base; flowering stem purple brown, hairy; flowers creamy white with a heart of yellow stamens. One specimen see at collection site but occasional in the area

Herb, mostly branching from the base, up to 50 cm high; capitula terminal, bright yellow,with ray-florets.

Clearly perennial herb with strong rootstock.

Small unbranched annual herbs 8-18 cm tall; flowers in terminal heads, c 1-1.5 cm in diameter; mauve-pink. Generally very common in the area

Very small depauperate plants only several centimeters tall.

Scrambling herb; branches up to 1 m long, reddish, with long, whitish, spreading hairs; flowers violet. Several specimens at collection site; generally frequent in the area

Virgate shrub c. 1,7 m tall. One specimen seen at collection site; frequent in the area.

Small flowers with extremely long style iNaturalist record