Records determined by Giess

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

Shrub; Notes: Shrub up to 1.5 meter high.

Notes: Afrikaans: 'Kremetart'.

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

70 ft high; Tree; Notes: Tree 70 feet in height (22 ins. dbh) on compacted sand marginal to dambo in scattered tree community of Piliostigma, Combretum imberbe and Acacia nigrescens. Uncommon but widespread in the above situation.

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.

48 ft high; Tree; Notes: On compact sand. Tree 48 feet high and 3 feet in diameter. Only specimen in Burkea, Combretum mechowianum tree savanna - Mopane mosaic.

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

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

Notes: Bushmen: 'Gai' (g.guttural). 'Sandsering'. Quoted in: Prodromus einer Flora von Sdwestafrika 59:7 (1967) & Flora of Southern Africa 16,2: 16 (1977).

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

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: Semi-parasite. Flowers bright red.

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

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

45 cm high; Herb; Notes: In open grassland - seasonally overflowed plains. Perennial herbs, 45 cm high. Flowers mauve.

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

Graminoid;

Edge and dumps in up to 2 m deep water.

Erect, annual grass.

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

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.

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

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.

Perennial.

Graminoid; Notes: Dry woodland.

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

Climber; Notes: Twining in Phoenix reclinata. Flowers white. Tip of keel violet.

Annual herbs, 0.45 m high. Flowers blue.

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.

Tree; Notes: Large tree. Fruits taken as rattles by bush people. Kxoe:lxr.

Notes: Fast running water, 2 m deep.

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.

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

Notes: Shrubby plant.

Graminoid; Notes: Tufted grass. Relatively common.

Herb; Notes: Perennial herb, growing at edge of lake. Flowers pale blue. Quoted in: Kew Bull. 41(1): 207

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.

Notes: Bushman: ' 'Nkwana'.

Notes: Bushman: 'Ngwaie'.

Notes: Twining in other shrubs; burning/stinging.

9 ft high; Notes: 9 feet high.

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

Herb; Notes: Annual, woody herb. Common.