Collections made by Peter Biegel

As A. wilkesiana. Shrub 4 x 2 m. New leaves unfold red-brown, with red veins above and below; darken as they mature, finally dull green brown.

As A. godseffiana var. heterophylla Hort. Shrub 2m, with fairly loose, tall-rounded crown; ragged-looking with criss-cross branches and leaves with a shredded look, light green with whitish margins.

As A. godseffiana. Untidy small shrub 1 m. Leaves light green with cream margins.

Stems quite prostrate, weakly rooting at some nodes. Plant 0.8 m in diameter.

Shrub 3m, elsewhere observed at 4.5 m. Leaves very sharp-prickly. Flowers deep pink.

Tips of some fronds arching over and where they touch ground new plants develop

Tree 40 m. DBH 75 cm, heavily buttressed. Bark smooth, grey. Slash white, soft,wet. Underbark bright yellow.

Evergreen tree 15 m. DBh 70 cm. Bark brown, cracked in ± square flakes 3-4 mm thick; bark on branches less than 15 cm diameter is smooth. Crown spreading. Filaments white with pink on upper 1/3.

Spreading stems from woody root. Vexillum rose, keel off white tinged pink. Common. [Position estimated]

Plant erect, 0.4 m high. Name on the sheet is Amaranthus hybridus L. subsp. incurvatus (Trimen ex Gren & Godr.) Brenan which per POWO is a synonym of A. cruentus.

Herb. Flowers dark mauve/ light purple.

Tree 12 m with domed crown.

Rhizomatous, covers area 3.5 X 2 m. Fertile fronds have diseased appearance. Brown in colour.

Shrub 3 m with erect branches. Leaves olive-green above, grey below. Flowers dark mauve.

Tree 3 m with open crown; branches and leaf rhachis armed; petals dark red with narrow yellow margin.

Cited in FZ 6(1)

Fronds to 1.6 m high

Common

Climber 4m, trained against building. Foliage dark glossy green. Flowers scarlet.

Evergreen climber wihout support, forms mass 2 m high by 3 m wide; leaves dark glossy green. Fruit shiny black, when ripe splits and reveals an orange "beard", is then eaten by birds. Calyx wine-red, reflexed below mature fruit.

Leafless parasite with flexuous, brown, filiform stems. Flowers yellowish. Area sown to imported seed ex USA.

Masses of yellow to brown-yellow threads. Flowering and fruiting profusely. Plant covers c. 2 x 3 m area.

Leafless parasite with flexuous, brown, filiform stems. Flowers yellowish. Area sown to imported seed ex USA.

Leafless green-twigged climber forming a dense mass of branches ± 7 feet above ground. Flowers whitish.

"Very doubtful if cultivated".

Tree 5m. Branches spreading to ascending; spread of crown 6 m. Flowers off-white, fade to deep cream. Upper petals of freshly-opened flowers green-infused. Claws of all petals wide, flushed dark-red.

This is the only record form C in SRGH on 13 Dec 2006

About 100 yds and 3 ft vertically lower a large colony of D. viride and a small one of D. longifolium. Bulb white, rest green. Part of scape with unopened flowers pendulous, becomes erect as they open. Ovary sessile, stigma club-shaped, style short. Base of filaments with shallow U-curve.

Cited in a draft account for Flora Zambesiaca of the Hyacinthaceae. Plant in flower.

Rounded shrub 2 m, said to be severely cut back annually. Flowers a delicate pink with a darker centre.

Unarmed shrub, spreading, 6 ft high. Branches brown. Leaves dull green above, silver below and with brown scales. Stamens 4, stigmatic surface part of style hooked.

Cited in Flora Zambesiaca Vol. 8 pt. 8: 228 (2013).

Perennial herb 0.6 m. Leaves green; Involucral leaves with red area lower 1/2, the inner smaller and all red.

Shrub with low branches 1.5 m high, all parts with white sap. Branches arching gracefully, c. 2.5 m long. Floral bracts coral red above, orange-yellow below; stamens yellow. Flowers very attractive.

Open shrub 2.5 m with copious milky juice. Bracts bright red.

Cited in Flora Zambesiaca volume 9 part 5: 378, 2001

Tree 15 m. Crown tall - rounded, heavy. Bark smooth, grey. White latex from cut branch ends.

Open shrub 1.2 m, the branches virgate, the outer branches arching outwards. Foliage bluish-grey. Flowers white. A graceful small shrub.

Dense dark green climber; flower perianth yellow.

Scrambling shrub with stems up to 3 m long trailing over rocks. Perianth green with light green margins to the segments.

1.5 m shrub climbing at the ends.

Trailing shrub.

Somewhat spreading shrub 1.2 m slightly aromatic scent reminiscent of tar and spices. Flowers golden yellow, showy against the dark green foliage.

Much-branched, virgate shrub 2.5 m. Flowers golden yellow. Seed collected in Juliasdale, Rhodesia 1962.

Tree 6 m. Bark smooth, grey, very thin; UB green. Flowers white with very slight musty-sweet scent.

Twiner to 1.25 m.Flowers in clusters, light mauve; throat dark mauve.

Rather stunted shrub 0.4 m. Flowers shite, semi-double, strongly sweetly scented.

Rootstock tuberous. Flowers deep blood red

Clusters of stems from ends of rhizomes; fronds to 4ft high

Tree 4 m. Bark green, smooth. Flower buds to 15 cm long; sepals green, petals and stamens cream.

Calyx green outside, greenish-white within like the petals. Corona fimbriate, mauve at base, the remainder greenish-white. Climber 4 m.

Cited in Flora Zmbesiaca Vol. 11 part 2: 349 (1998)

Subshrub; fruit reddish-brown.

Probably rhizomatous, many-stemmed shrub, regrown to 0.6 m after burn. Tufts of stems 1 per 2m sq. on area of c. 30 x 50 m.

Shrub 0.7 m; new growth measures 0.5 m. Area probably burnt the previous year

0.5 schrub

Garden ornamental. Rather dense shrub, somewhat spreading, 4 m high.

Lat/Long estimated by MAH

Tree 5 m with a dense indeterminate crown. Flowers golden yellow.

Dense rounded shrub 2 m high, 2.5 m across. Flowers a dull coppery red marked with dull old-gold within. This subsp. [i.e. subsp. nyassae] is less floriferous than subsp. capensis.

With grass and Sphenostylis erecta, Vigna frutescens and Thunbergia lancifolia

Among 5 ft tall Setaria sphacelata. Flowers greenish with dull blue on edge vexillum. Pods hairy, pendulous.