Records made by Alan Short

Growing together with Adiantum incisum.

Large scrambling shrub

Yellow flowered composite with distinctly winged stems

Small tree with alternate hairless, leathery, entire leaves. Strongly 3-veined from an asymmetrical base. Sterile.

Small yellow-flowered species with reddish, semi-succulent stems.

Tree in fruit

Apparently a first record for Mozambique

Large shrubby herb; small leaflets

A small-flowered species with somewhat succulent stems and leaves.

Specimens did not dry well, sticking to papers and disintegrating

Small plant.

Small shrub with small round leaves.

Annual herb with very lax, wiry inflorescence; flowers deep violet purple, on long pedicels

Succulent with scrambling erect stems, up to 1.3 m high; mostly without spines

Very thin and flattened branches.

Tree-sized succulent

Tall red flowered species ; seeds with cottony hairs so H. migeodii iNaturalist record as H. zanzibaricus

Seeds with fluffy cottony hairs

Seeds with cottony hairs

Low growing species with large flowers; leave not lobed.

Tall herb with irritant hairs; chalky encrustations between the veins at the base of the leaves; broadly lanceolate epicalyx lobes; flowers relatively small, not opening wide, very short-lived

White flowered; palmately divided leaves

Only one specimen seen.

Behaving as a true liana

Epicalyx bracts long acuminate and style long.

larger species with discolourous leaves but not grey; Epicalyx bracts broadly ovate not long acuminate or caudate

Large fleshy round leaves; prostrate, veined but not plicate

In fruit

Bright yellow flowers

White flowered; narrow simple, hairy leaves

Small tree with smooth grey bark and pale slash; leaves alternate with dense pustulate glands(?) on the upper surface. Much paler beneath.

In fruit

Small tree with 3-foliolate leaves. Leaflets sessile; petople very long. Matches V. lanceolata but petiole ever so slightly winged.