Records made by Giess

Twiner in trees. Leaves pinnate. Pods are bearing red beans with black spot.

3 m high; Shrub; Notes: Dense shrubs 3m high. Leaves bipinnately lobed. Pods linear, somewhat curved.

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

5 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub. Bark greyish brown. Quoted in: Prodromus einer Flora von Sdwestafrika 58:8 (1967).

Tree; Shrub; Notes: Single stemmed trees up to 3 meters high, or shrubs. Pods standing upright on branches.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub up to 1.5 meter high.

8 m high; Tree; Notes: 8 meter high tree. Quoted in: Prodromus einer Flora von Sdwestafrika 58:12 (1967).

Notes: Many-stemmed 'forb' up to 50 cm high and 1 m in diameter.

2.5 m high; Shrub; Notes: Dense shrubs 2.5 m high. Stems hairy. Fruits borne at terminal ends of branches. In sandy soil.

Herb; Notes: Herbs growing in running stream. Flowers in heads, white.

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

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.

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

40 cm high; Shrub;

Notes: Lower lip pointed, boat shaped folded and margin very crenulate. Flower coloue intensier that at Andara. Plants fruiting in hort WG, Windhoek.

Tree; Notes: Single-stemmed tree with bright green leaves. Fruits in clusters. Growing in shade of Ficus species.

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

Up to 2,50 m high in other shrubs. Filed at WIND under Asparagus cooperi

Climber, more than 1 m high winding in bush. Petals very narrow (0,5 mm) white with reddish veins. Sweet scent. Fruit up to 7 mm diameter, more or less inconspicuously tri-lobed, 2 lobes not completely developed.

Notes: Plants up to 1.3 m high. Flowers medium sized, white, with dark throat.

3 m high; Tree; Notes: Single-stemmed tree, 3 m high. Fruiting.Black sandy soil.

Semi-erect shrublet 0.25 m high. Flower white.

Notes: In black sandy soil. Small, annual herbs, rarely 2 cm high. Flowers minute, greenish white. Up on touching the plant, the leaves are closing.

75 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb with underground tubers, 75 cm high.

Notes: Flowers whitish.

Notes: Flowers white,

Parasite; Notes: Parasite growing on fig trees and other weeds growing close to water edge. Flowers (white) as well as fruits whitish. 0,75 cm in diameter.

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

Notes: Winding, up to 3 m long. Flowers yellow-green.

Notes: Flowers blue, small.

Shrub; Notes: Dense shrubs, up to 2.50 m high. Bark rusty. Fruits 4-winged, 2.5 cm long, 2 cm broad, truncate, shading red, glimmering gold.

Tree; Notes: Small tree.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub, up to 1.50 m high.

8 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 8 m tall.

Shrub; Tree; Notes: Shrub or tree.

Notes: Plants growing in water, to 1.2 m high. Flowers blue.Quoted in:Prodromus einer Flora von Sdwestafrika 157:9 (1967).

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.

Tree; Notes: About 7 metre high tree. Bark blue-green, papery.

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

1.2 m high; Herb; Notes: Perennial herb, 1.2 m high. Flowers yellow. Growing in black sandy soil.

Shrub; Notes: Dry shrub with fruit.

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

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

Notes: Twining in small camelthorn. Milky latex.

Graminoid;

Notes: Quoted in:Prodromus einer Flora von Sdwestafrika 165:37 (1967).

Notes: Small corm.

Notes: Quoted in:Prodromus einer Flora von Sdwestafrika 165:37 (1967).

Climibing over Piliostigma thonningii shrub, sterile.

Tree; Notes: Tree up to 10 m high. Young twigs used as toothbrushes by bushmen.

Herb; Notes: Basally woody herb, somewhat spreading ascending.

Erect, annual grass.

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

4 m high; Tree; Notes: Dry woodland. Small tree, 4 m high. Bark grey, very corky.

Semi-erect, perennial herb 0.30 m high. Flowers white.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub.

Notes: Up to 35 cm tall.

Notes: Dry woodland.

Graminoid;

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.

Tree; Notes: Slender tree, about 8 m high. Quoted in: Prodromus einer Flora von Sdwestafrika 59:14 (1967) & Flora of Southern Africa 16,2: 12(1977).

Notes: It stands in water and the flowers are light purple in colour.

Shrub; Notes: Usually in half shade of riverine woodland of omuramba. Shrubs around 1.50 m tall.

Notes: Plant of 20 cm diameter (in pot). Leaves stiff, upright, up to 20 cm high at flowering, later up to 30 cm high. 8 In florescences up to 1 m high, up to 20 flowered. Flowers green with darker venation, with brownish tinge. Lip and spur white-purple with dark purple venation.

Notes: Flowers before leaves. Inflorescence up to 1,20 m high. Flowers yellow. Lips with brownish ribs.

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

Notes: Growing between sandstone rocks in black sandy soil. Tree 5 m high. Leaves dark green. No fruit present. Corr. nom.: S. Rgheimer 5.2007.

Tree; Notes: Slanting, ascending tree. Bark grey with big, falling stigmas on the stem. Corr. nom.: S. Rgheimer 5.2007.

Herb; Notes: Slender, upright growing herb, growing in running water/stream, forming runners on the water. Flowers purple.

Tree; Notes: Large liane strangling trees, trunks up to 9' in diam., very soft with white latex.

Notes: Up to 40 cm tall with underground rootstock, which connects the individual plants.

Notes: Bulbs received from Prof. Dr. O. Khler for identification purposes. Veldkos of bushmen. Knolle with light, fibreous outer layer and numerous new bulbs, which are up to pea-size. Erect plant, up to 60 cm high. Flowers sulphur yellow, with very fine red stripes, which are unconspicuous. Bulbs were received in October 1968. Khwe-name: /on.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub, up 60 cm high. Fruits 4-parted, big, very often attached at the base of twigs.

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.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub, up to 1.50 m. Branches round. Fruit pear-shaped, more or less smooth, yellow-brown.

Notes: Spreading prostrate. Bracts white to pink. Relatively common.

Herb; Notes: Herb, procumbent from woody base. Very glandular, unpleasant aroma. Flower on long petiole, pale yellow with violet midvein. In WIND under Hermannia rautanenii

Graminoid; Notes: Heavy grey-black clay soil.

Notes: Stems up to 10 cm tall. Flowers 45 cm in diameter. Lobes long, thin and long tip, yellow. Margins reflexed. Tube 5 mm deep, 10 mm in diameter, wine red with pale base around corana.

Graminoid; Notes: Up to 1.30 m high tufted grass in small stands.

Perennial.

Graminoid; Notes: Dry woodland.

Notes: Prostrate plant. Flowers red.

60 cm high; subshrub; Notes: Halfshrub, 60 cm high. Flowers yellow, lighter outer.Quoted in:Prodromus einer Flora von Sdwestafrika 126:50 (1967) as S.elegantissima (Schinz) Skan.

Plant annual. Flowers white.

Notes: Dense, spiny plant with red flowers. Growing as weed on harvested mahango fields, very common, also along road verge.

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

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

Geophyte; Notes: Inflorescence just longer than leaves. Received bulb from O. Khler.

30 cm high; Graminoid; Notes: Grass 30 cm high. In black sandy soil.

Herb; Notes: Perennial herb, 1.75 m high. Woody at the base. Flowers small, yellow. Fruits 3 - 4 cm long. Growing at edge of waterstream. corr.nom. Goldblatt, P. & Raven, P.H. (1997): Bothalia 27,2: 149 - 165.

5 m high; Shrub; Tree; Notes: 5 m high tree-shrub.Diniz (1988):FZ 8 (3) : 71 - 77.Quoted in:Prodromus einer Flora von Sdwestafrika 128:3 (1967) as Markhamia acuminata (Klotzsch) K.Schum in Engler.

Annual herb. Flowers pale violet.

Perennial graminoid. Branched at base.

Creeper; Notes: Annual, creeper over rocks, leaves feathered. Flowers yellow.

3 m high; Graminoid; Notes: Perennial grass, 3 m high. Growing on edge of stream, in black sandy soil.

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.

10 m high; Tree; Notes: Many stemmed, thornless tree, 12 m crown diameter and height of 10 m, branched from the base. Bark grey-black.

Bulb up to 7 cm in diameter with brown tunics. Neck up to 0.12 m long. Flowers white to pale pink with a darker keel.

Notes: Flowers white - blueish. Margin dentate, undersurface green. Sheet 1 of 2103.

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

Notes: Stems up to 12 cm tall, with very long tips.

Notes: Shoots up to 1.5 m long.

30 cm high; Graminoid; Notes: In black sandy soil. Grass 30 cm high.

Dwarf shrub; Notes: Dwarf shrub, up to 15 cm high. Growing in colonies.

15 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree 15 m high.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub.

2.5 m high; Shrub; Notes: Up to 2.50 m high shrub. In semi-shade of bigger tree.

Notes: Moist tree-shrub.

Notes: Plants growing in water, flowers almost white. Corr. nom.: S. Rgheimer 5.2007.

Notes: Dry woodland. Unpleasant smell.

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.

Herb, woody at base. Branches arched, decumbent and rooting at nodes. Flowers pale violet.

Notes: Sepals white, lower ones pink.

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

Notes: Small, annual herb up to 10 cm high. Flowers greenish-white with red overflow.

Notes: Growing between sandstone rocks in black sandy soil.

Notes: Twiner in shrubs, flowers yellow.

Plants up to 1.5 m tall.

Suffrutex or subshrub, 0.60 m high. Flowers white.

Notes: Leaves up to 7 cm wide and up to 40 cm long. Leaves margin entire (not rough).

Graminoid; Notes: Perennial tufted grass up to 1,2m in height.

Peduncle 15 cm high, 3/4 without spots. Flowers bright red.

Graminoid.

Shrub; Notes: Up to 3 m high, dense shrub. Rocky banks.

Notes: Shrubby plant.

1.75 m high; Herb; Notes: In black sandy soil. Annual herb 1.75 m high. Flowers yellow, growing in shallow water of river.

Notes: Half shrub. Flowers golden yellow.

Graminoid.

Up to 90 cm tufted grass. Leaves and culms coloured red.

Notes: Plants annual, flowers pale blue.

Graminoid; Notes: Tufted grass. Relatively common.

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.

Tree; Notes: Tree up to 6 m high. Fruits 12 - 14 cm in diameter.

Shrub; Tree; Notes: Tree or shrub, up to 4 m high.

40 cm high; Notes: Plant a sub-shrub, 40 cm tall. Flowers yellow.

Herb; Notes: Annual, upright herb, aromatic, up to 50 cm tall.

Notes: Turnip formed roots with pink flesh. Shoots up to 15 cm long upright. Flowers yellow (roots preserved).

Notes: Quoted in:Bothalia 7,4:740 (1962) by A. A. Obermeyer.Quoted in:Prodromus einer Flora von Sdwestafrika 147:70 (1970).

Notes: Twining in other shrubs; burning/stinging.

Notes: Flowers pale yellow, pods hanging. Quoted in: Prodromus einer Flora von Sdwestafrika 88:4 (1966-70) as Wormskioldia lobata Urban.

Graminoid; Notes: Perennial, somewhat spreaded, ascending tufts. On harvested mango fields. Clay, grey-black soil. Occasional.

Notes: Flowers white.Quoted in:Prodromus einer Flora von Sdwestafrika 133: 3 (1968) by A.Schreiber as Utricularia arenaria A.DC.

Notes: Up to 30 cm tall. Shoots arising from underground root stem system. Pope, G.V 1998 FZ 5:2, pg 236 cor.nom. SS 16/01/2003.

1 m high; Notes: 1 m high.

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

Notes: Consisting of a woody base, it can reach heights of 50 cm upwards.

60 cm high; Herb; Notes: Annual herb, 60 cm high. The flowers heads, purple.

Notes: Plants twining. Flowers pale yellow.

Flowers pale blue.

Flowers pale blue.

Herb; Notes: Annual, woody herb. Common.

4.5 m high; Succulent; Notes: Tree 4.5m high.