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Family Name No Record date Recorder(s) Coll. Det. Conf. Herbaria Habitat Location Loc code(s) Outing code Planted code Country QDS Grid ref. FZ Div Alt. (m) Notes Lat Long Loc Acc Code
Fabaceae subfamily PapilionoideaeAbrus precatorius subsp. africanus 947748 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1402
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930250 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Scrambling shrub, 250 cm high, with woody stems and twining upper branches. Leaves: very similar to 1403, but not hairy. Compound, leaflets oval, opposite, very slightly discolorous, mostly imparipinnate. Fruits: pods, clustered, brown and leathery, splitting to reveal oval red seeds with a black tip.-17.78330025.2075005
Malvaceae subfamily MalvoideaeAbutilon hirtum 9477515 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3405
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Herb; Notes: Altitude: about 3000 feet. Very locally, common in grassland. Erect herb, 3 - 4 feet. Flowers yellow.-17.78330025.2075005
Fabaceae subfamily MimosoideaeAcacia ataxacantha 9477620 Mar 1989GL Maggs
GL Maggs
750
GL Maggs
WIND

Caprivi: Impilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Tree; Notes: Shrubby tree, 4 - 5 m high. Bark pale grey. Spines not stipular, scattered along branchlets, hooked. Stipules caducous. Leaves bipinnate, pinna 10 - 12 pairs, 8 cm long. Leaflets elongate - ovate, 5 x 1 mm, base oblique, fresh green, glabrous, close-ranked. Pod flattened, up to 20 x 3 cm, red-green to brilliant red becoming brown.-17.78330025.2075005
Fabaceae subfamily MimosoideaeAcacia galpinii 947778 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1399
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9305 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 5 m tall, with yellow, flaking bark. Thorns paired, large, hooked. Leaves: with 5 pinnae pairs. A small raised gland on petiole near base of pinnae pair. Confirmed by MU, 6.11.2002.-17.78330025.2075005
Fabaceae subfamily MimosoideaeAcacia kirkii subsp. kirkii var. kirkii 9477815 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3382
C Fagg
WIND

Caprivi: Eastern Caprivi Strip. Mpilila island. Often dominant in woodland near Chobe and Zambesi rivers.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Tree; Notes: Tree 20-30 feet. Inflorescence white, globose. Altitude about 3000 feet.-17.78330025.2075005
Fabaceae subfamily MimosoideaeAcacia nilotica subsp. kraussiana 947797 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1374
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930210 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub 210 cm tall, brown stems. New growth green and velvety. Thorns long and straight. New thorns, green with dark tips, short. Somewhat swept back. Leaves with tiny leaflets. Flowers yellow balls. Pods dark brown, constricted between the seeds. Voucher for: pods collected.-17.78330025.2075005
Fabaceae subfamily MimosoideaeAcacia polyacantha subsp. campylacantha 9478010 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1444
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 93025 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 25 m tall. Single trunk, yellowish and somewhat powdery. Strong, paired, hooked thorns. Branches come out somewhat horizontally. Leaves large and feathery, with more than 15 pinnae pairs and a very large, squat, petiolar gland. Flowers: cream coloured, in long spikes. Fruits: pods papery - leathery, long and narrow, reddish brown.-17.78330025.2075005
Fabaceae subfamily MimosoideaeAcacia robusta subsp. clavigera 9478115 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3425
WIND

Caprivi: East Caprivi Strip. Mpilila Island. Growing in woodland.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Tree; Notes: Tree about 15 feet high. Inflorescence yellow. Occasional. Altitude about 3000 feet.-17.78330025.2075005
Fabaceae subfamily MimosoideaeAcacia schweinfurthii 9478210 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1445
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island. Along riverbank.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9305 m high; Climber; Notes: Scrambling climber, 5 m tall. Scattered, hooked thorns, growing on longitudinal grooves and stems. Leaves: large and feathery with prickles on rachis. Flowers: in creamy balls. Fruits: pods, reddish brown, papery-leathery.-17.78330025.2075005
EuphorbiaceaeAcalypha ornata 9478315 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3392
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930bush; Notes: Bush on bank of Chobe; common. Much branched shrub 5 - 6'. Altitude: about 3000'.-17.78330025.2075005
Fabaceae subfamily CaesalpinioideaeAfzelia quanzensis 947847 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1387
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Tree; Notes: Tree, 25 m tall, with single trunk. Leaves: with pulvinus. Leaflets hairless, discolorous, slightly sickle-shaped with oblique midrib, opposite. Leaves alternate. Flowers: with 4 green sepals, boat-shaped, curled back. Two fused pinkish petals and 7 green stamens, whole flower very open. Fruits: pods large, dark, woody, with large black and red seeds inside. 5
Fabaceae subfamily MimosoideaeAlbizia harveyi 947859 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1431
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9302 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 2 m high, small leaflets.-17.78330025.2075005
Fabaceae subfamily MimosoideaeAlbizia versicolor 9478626 Jul 1971MF Thompson
MF Thompson
1209
MF Thompson
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island. On banks of Chobe River.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Tree; Notes: Tree 40 feet. Common name: Mububa - Lozi. Pods rust red. Bark rough. Wood light in weight used for Makolos (canoes, boats).-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeAlloteropsis cimicina 9478712 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3327
ES Klaassen
WIND

Occasional - fairly frequent at edge of marsh.Caprivi: Mpilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Erect culms, 2 feet 6 inches.-17.78330025.2075005
LythraceaeAmmannia auriculata 9491513 Jul 2015D Aiyambo
DT Nyatoro
D Aiyambo
DT Nyatoro
39
DT Nyatoro
WIND

Growing in muddy clay soil on depression/pan, in seasonally waterlogged wetland. Common under shade of Acacia tree.Caprivi, Katima Mulilo: On Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Erect annual herb, up to 0.40 m high. Purple flowers seen some in bud. Maroon-reddish stem and green leaves, linear to narrowly lanceolate, margin entire with maroon tips..-17.78330025.2075005
AraceaeAmorphophallus abyssinicus subsp. unyikae 9478815 Mar 1976P Du Preez
P Du Preez
17
WIND

Caprivi: Eastern Caprivi. Impalila island. W. Van Aanloopbaan.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9300.4 m high; Shrub; Notes: Gentle, stony/rocky, gravel, poorly drained, scrub/thicket, full sun. Perennial. Flower mauve.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeAndropogon eucomus subsp. eucomus 9478918 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs
332
WIND

Caprivi: Inkasa Island: malapo on banks of Linyanti River.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Graminoid; Notes: short, densely-tufted, perennial grass, up to 80 cm high when in flower. Culm erect but basally usually geniculate, terete, slender, green to straw-coloured but becoming conspicuously purple-tinted when exposed, glabrous, nodes deep purple-banded but glabrous, branched. Leaf blade tightly folded, 70 - 120 mm long, gradually tapering to acute apex, 3 - 4 mm broad, acutely arranged but can recurve slightly at apex, hard and scabrous to the touch, bright-green to blue-green, margin thickened, minutely setulose, can also have basally scattered, long, white, sericeous hairs, base undifferentiated to very slightly notched. Ligule an arc shaped ridge bearing a fringe of short, white, densely packed hairs with long, white sericeous hairs conspicuous on collar. Leaf sheath loosely circumculmate, often open to base, blue-green with hyaline margins, 70 mm long, canaliculate, glabrous, persistent. Inflorescence with racemes digitately clustered, cuneate in outline. Raceme 2.5 - 6 cm long, 3 mm wide. Spikelets arranged alternately along axis, narrowly ellipsoid, 2. 5 x 0.5 mm, masked by conspicuous awns. Glumes membranous, purple-brown with dense, long, white, sericeous indumentum.-17.78330025.2075005
PhyllanthaceaeAntidesma rufescens 9479013 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3372
WIND

Caprivi: Mpilila Island; on banks of Zambesi River.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Notes: Tree 12 - 15 feet high; fruiting. Common. Altitude: about 3000 feet.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeAristida adscensionis 9479118 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs
352
WIND

Caprivi: Inkasa Island: malapo on banks of Linyandi River.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Graminoid; Notes: Sparely tufted perennial grass, up to 0,75 m high when flower. Culms basally geniculate but otherwise steeply ascending, terete, smooth, glabrous, relatively sturdy although' slender, yellow-green to straw-coloured purple-tinted towards nodes to deep purple and basally prominently gibbose, branched. Leaf blade linear, somewhat expanded but mostly rolled, tapering to fine tip, dull green but with conspicuous abaxial white ribs, up to 20 cm long but mostly shorter, often withering at apex, base not auriculate - simply rounded and slightly notched, glabrous, rigid and erect but not spine-tipped. Ligule an inconspicuous, dense fringe of short, white hairs not continuous on collar. Leaf sheath 6-7 cm long, loosely circumculmate, margins hyaline, keeled, glabrous, dull to yellow-green, conspicuously white ribbed basally deep purple-tinted, persistent. Inflorescence a spicate panicle, narrowly ovate to lanceolate in outline, about 15/2,5 cm. Secondary axis verticillately arranged to main axis, 2,5-4 cm long, glabrous, steeply ascending and adpressed against main axis. Spikelets 2-flowers, lanceolate, 8-10/0, 75-1 mm, paired = 1 sessile; 1 stalked. Glumes membranous, straw-coloured to green or often deep purple-tinted, glabrous, persistent. Awn splitting to geniculate, 12-25 mm long, purple; column lacking.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeAristida rhiniochloa 9479213 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3367
WIND

Caprivi: Katima Mulilo district. Mpilia Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Graminoid; Notes: Frequent on rock outcrop. Erect culms 1 feet and 6 inches.-17.78330025.2075005
AnnonaceaeArtabotrys brachypetalus 947938 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1401
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Creeper; Notes: Creeper with woody stem, round, brown. Leaves: ovate, with rounded base and apex. Soft when young, more leathery when older. Young stems, petioles and leaves velvety. Leaf discolorous, alternate, midvein prominent below. Flower: on ends of a curved hook of stem. Three green, nearly circular sepals enclosing 6 cream-green petals. Whole thing globose and 1 cm in diameter, pendulent.-17.78330025.2075005
AsparagaceaeAsparagus buchananii 9479413 Nov 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3362
S Rügheimer
WIND

Rare in woodland.Caprivi, Katima Mulilo: Impilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Herbaceous climber. Twisting.-17.78330025.2075005
AcanthaceaeBarleria ameliae 9267915 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3391
SRGH

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WIND

L

Eastern Portion Impalila Island2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Cited in Flora Zambesiaca volume 8 part 6: 114, 2015.-17.78510025.2391005
AcanthaceaeBarleria ameliae 9479624 Mar 1976P Du Preez
P Du Preez
00005(17285)
I Darbyshire
WIND

Rare. Growing in poorly-drained, level, gravelly clay soil.Caprivi, Katima Mulilo District: Impilila Island at military base at north side.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Shrublet, 0.3 m high. Flower orange.-17.78330025.2075005
AcanthaceaeBarleria matopensis 9479716 Mar 1976P Du Preez
P Du Preez
00009 (17285)
I Darbyshire
WIND

Growing in poorly drained gravelly clay soil in scrub/thicket.Caprivi, Katima Mulilo District: Impalila Island, west of Aanloopbaan.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Shrub, 0.8 m high. Flower pink.-17.78330025.2075005
AcanthaceaeBarleria megalosiphon 9479813 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3354
M-J Balkwill
WIND

Locally common. Woodland.Caprivi, Katima Mulilo: Impalila Island. East Caprivi strip.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Low shrub, 0.46 m high. Flowers white.-17.78330025.2075005
CapparaceaeBoscia mossambicensis 947999 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1443
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930150 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 150 cm tall. Stems: dark green. Younger stems straw-coloured with longitudinal grooves or green striations. Leaves: large, leathery, bristle tipped. Fruit: spherical, pale red, short androgynophore, persistent sepals 4.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeBothriochloa radicans 9480013 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3350
WIND

Caprivi: Mpilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Graminoid; Notes: Open grassland on rocky ridge, locally frequent. Erect culms, 2 - 3 feet. Altitude ca. 3000 feet.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeBrachiaria deflexa 9480118 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs
327
WIND

Caprivi: Inkasa Island: malapo on banks of Linyandi river.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 93030 cm high; Graminoid; Notes: Erect, annual grass, up to 30 cm high when in flower. Culm erect to somewhat geniculate, much branched, slender, terete, yellow-green with long, white, sericeous indumentum especially conspicuous at dark-banded nodes. Leaf blade lanceolate, tapering to narrow apex over a length of 50 - 100 mm, up to 10 mm wide, thin and softly textured, expanded, ascending to somewhat recurved, bright green, covered on both surfaces by fine, white, short, downy indumentum, margins white with long straight, white hairs, base rounded. Ligule an inconspicuous brown, membranous ridge with short, white, straight hairs. Leaf sheath tightly circumculmate from collar region, overlapping, 25 - 50 mm long, paler green with relatively dense long, white, sericeous indumentum. Inflorescence a panicle of spaced racemes, up to 200 x 80 mm, elliptic in outline, enclosed initially in upper leaf sheath. Racemes 50 mm long, alternately arranged on main axis at intervals of 3 - 30 mm; secondary axis slender, sinuate with dense, short, white, velutinous indumentum. Spikelets paired, minutely ovoid, 2 x 1.5 mm, apex acute. Glumes tightly clasped, membranous, pale green to purple tinted. Stigma branches apically exerted, deep purple.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeBrachiaria dictyoneura 9480212 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3330
WIND

Caprivi: Mpilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9303 ft high; Graminoid; Notes: Marsh, dominant in parts. Erect culms, 3 foot.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeBrachiaria eruciformis 9480313 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3375
WIND

Caprivi: Mpilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Graminoid; Notes: Abundant in old lands. Erect culms 2 feet 6 inches. Altitude: about 3000 feet.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeBrachiaria nigropedata 9480415 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3408
WIND

Locally common in old lands.Caprivi: Mpilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Erect culms, 2 foot.-17.78330025.2075005
PhyllanthaceaeBridelia cathartica subsp. melanthesoides var. melanthesoides 948057 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1376
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930230 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 230 cm tall. Leaves: green, discolorous, obovate, apex tapering to blunt. Flowers: tiny, yellow-green, in clusters in leaf axils. Leaves: alternate, with a stipule at base of each leaf.-17.78330025.2075005
RubiaceaeCanthium glaucum subsp. frangula var. frangula 9480613 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3353
WIND

Caprivi: Eastern Caprivi Strip. Mpilila Island. In woodland.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9308 ft high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub about 8 feet high. Fruiting. Rare.-17.78330025.2075005
CapparaceaeCapparis tomentosa 948079 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1433
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930120 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 120 cm high. Stems: velvety, with very small prickles. Leaves: concolorous, velvety, especially below.-17.78330025.2075005
RubiaceaeCarphalea pubescens 9480819 Mar 1976P Du Preez
P Du Preez
19/17285
WIND

Caprivi: Eastern Caprivi. Impalele island. Naby point from island to Kasane in Botswana.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9301.2 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub. Perennial. Flowers white. Height: 1.2 m. Gentle stony soil. Poorly drain, grassland aspect. Gravel loam. Rare.-17.78330025.2075005
Fabaceae subfamily CaesalpinioideaeCassia abbreviata subsp. beareana 9480920 Mar 1989GL Maggs
GL Maggs
748
GL Maggs
WIND

Caprivi: Impilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Tree; Notes: Medium tree, 5-6 m high. Bark grey-brown. Leaves paripinnate; leaflets ovate-elliptic, 35 x 20 mm, dull green, discoloured, margin entire, apex rounded to notched, glabrescent. Fruit a pod, elongate, cylindric, 20 x 2 cm, yellow-brown, velutinous.-17.78330025.2075005
PedaliaceaeCeratotheca sesamoides 9481015 Mar 1987IJ Barnard
IJ Barnard
309
MJAW Crosby
WIND

Caprivi: Kubu Lodge, river side Chobe-Zambezi confluence.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9300.5 m high; Notes: Plant 0.5 m high. Pink hairy flower.-17.78330025.2075005
Apocynaceae subfamilies Asclepiadoideae and SecamonoideaeCeropegia meyeri 73170No date2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 0Cited in Bruyns (2014), Apocynaceae of Namibia0.0000000.0000002
Apocynaceae subfamilies Asclepiadoideae and SecamonoideaeCeropegia meyeri 9481129 Mar 1981PV Bruyns
PV Bruyns
2303
WIND

Caprivi: Mpalela Island, Zambesi River (160 km south-east of Katima Mililo).2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Notes: About 7 plants seen in all. Some growing in rather open bush in isolated Dichrostachys trees or Terminalia stuhlmanii or T. prunioides. Some others found in dense forest on ridge on centre of island. Seem to be identical to C. meyeri. Variety of leaves taken from different plants.-17.78330025.2075005
Apocynaceae subfamilies Asclepiadoideae and SecamonoideaeCeropegia paricyma 73179No dateImpalela Island, Zambezi River2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 0Cited in Bruyns (2014), Apocynaceae of Namibia0.0000000.0000002
Apocynaceae subfamilies Asclepiadoideae and SecamonoideaeCeropegia purpurascens 73176No date2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 0Cited in Bruyns (2014), Apocynaceae of Namibia0.0000000.0000002
PoaceaeChloris gayana 9481212 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3329
WIND

Caprivi: Mpilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Graminoid; Notes: Locally common under large tree. Erect culms, 4 - 5 feet.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeChloris virgata 9481318 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs
339
WIND

Caprivi: Inkasa Island: malapo on banks of Linyandi River.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Graminoid; Notes: Basally tufted and stoloniferous annual grass, up to 0,5 m when in flower. Culms basally prostrate but then steeply ascending, rooting from lower prostrate nodes, slender and not conspicuously gibbose, smooth and glabrous, partially exposed along upper regions, blue-green to purple-tinted especially near nodes which are deep purple-tinted, branched. Leaf blades lanceolate, 35 - 120 mm long, tapering to apex, broadest at base, 4 - 8 mm wide, folded, blue-green, occasionally purple-tinted, margins white, base rounded and notched, both surfaces with long, white, bulbous-based indumentum. Ligule a membranous ridge with sparse white indumentum, collar with dense, long, white, straight indumentum extending along upper margin of sheath and lower margin of blade. Leaf sheath loosely circumculmate, keeled at base, about glabrous, except for scattered ciliate indumentum, shallowly canaliculate. Inflorescence complex, digitate arrangement of spicate racemes borne on slender, short peduncle, 1 - 7,5 cm long, subtended at base and initially enclosed by upper lamina. Racemes 5 - 7, 7 - 8,5 cm long, steeply ascending but flexuous. Spikelets 2 - flowered, arranged in 2 rows along axis; short stalk bearing long, white, sericeous indumentum. Lower glume membranous, glabrous, greenish white to apically purple-rimmed. Awns long, yellowish, glabrous, straight, slender, up to 12 mm long.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeChrysopogon nigritanus 9481418 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs
388
WIND

Caprivi: Inkasa Island: Malopo on banks of Linyandi River.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Graminoid; Notes: Tall, tufted, perennial grass, up to 1.25m high, when in flower with creeping, woody rhizome. Culms erect, thickened, rigid and somewhat reed-like, smooth, glabrous, unbranched. Leaf blade exceptionally long, up to 1 m long, tightly folded, 10 mm wide, dull green, base not auriculate, adaxially with dense, white adpressed hairs, abaxially glabrous, apically expanded, rigid and erect, margins scabrous. Ligule a narrow, membranous ridge. Leaf sheath shorter than blade, 10 cm long, basally tightly circumculmate but apically pulling away from culm and conjunction with blade not clearly defined. Inflorescence an open panicle narrowly ovate in outline, 30 x 5 cm; peduncle 50 cm long, beige to purple-tinted. Racemes whorled, up to 10 cm long, ascending purplish. Spikelets paired, lower spikelet awned. Glumes with purple spines, reddish in colour imparting a characteristic crimson hue to entire inflorescence. Base of stalk with tuft of hairs. Corr. nom.: EK 23.06.2003.-17.78330025.2075005
VitaceaeCissus nymphaeifolia 948159 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1441
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Climber. Stems reddish, lumpy. Leaves absent. Fruit grape like.-17.78330025.2075005
CucurbitaceaeCoccinia adoensis 9481613 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3361
WIND

Caprivi: Eastern Caprivi: Mpilia Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Climber; Notes: Rare in woodland. Herbaceous climber. Fruiting.-17.78330025.2075005
LamiaceaeColeus tetragonus 9488422 Apr 1982DS Hardy
DS Hardy
5630
WIND

Caprivi: Mpalili Island, Caprivi Strip. Cult. in Pretoria nursery.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Herb; Notes: Erect annual herb 20 - 25 cm. Small yellow flowers. Garden no 26232.-17.78330025.2075005
Fabaceae subfamily CaesalpinioideaeColophospermum mopane 9481712 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3338
WIND

Caprivi: Mpilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Tree; Notes: Dominant in Mopani veld. Tree, 20-30. Flowers yellow-green with red ovary. Quoted in Flora of Southern Africa 16,2:19 (1977) J. H. Ross.-17.78330025.2075005
CombretaceaeCombretum apiculatum subsp. apiculatum 948189 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1419
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9304 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 4 m tall. Light bark. Leaves: new leaves shiny green, undulate, in three's. Fruits: old pods golden, 4 winged (one is five winged), longer than wide, but blunt at both ends, with an apical peg.-17.78330025.2075005
BurseraceaeCommiphora africana 9481921 Mar 1989GL Maggs
GL Maggs
766
GL Maggs
WIND

Caprivi: Impilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Shrub; Notes: Shrub. Bark greyish. Branchlets spine-tipped. Leaves 3 - foliolate. Leaflets obovate, terminally 30 x 22 mm, laterally smaller, finely velutinous, apex rounded, margin crenate.-17.78330025.2075005
BurseraceaeCommiphora edulis subsp. edulis 9482013 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3337
WIND

Okavango, Rundu District: Mpilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Tree; Notes: Mopane veld; rare to occasional; tree 20 feet.-17.78330025.2075005
BurseraceaeCommiphora glandulosa 9482113 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3368
WIND

Caprivi: Mpilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Tree; Notes: Occasional in woodland. Tree 12-15 feet. Fruiting.-17.78330025.2075005
BurseraceaeCommiphora mollis 94822No dateDJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3406
WIND

Caprivi: Mpilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Tree; Notes: Occasional in woodland. Tree 15 feet; fruiting.-17.78330025.2075005
BurseraceaeCommiphora mossambicensis 948239 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1422
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9308 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, about 8 m high. Trunk: dark, smooth. Leaves: trifoliate. Flowers: cup-shaped, in terminal clusters on long pedicels.-17.78330025.2075005
Malvaceae subfamily GrewioideaeCorchorus tridens 9482412 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3334
WIND

Caprivi: East Caprivi Zipfel: MpiliIa Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Herb; Notes: Erect herb, flowers yellow. Disturbed areas near cultivated fields; frequent.-17.78330025.2075005
BoraginaceaeCordia monoica 9482513 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3352
E Retief
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Occasional on rocky ridge.Caprivi: Mpilila Island, bush on rocky ridge.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Shrub 10 feet. Fruit orange.-17.78330025.2075005
BoraginaceaeCordia pilosissima 948268 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1409
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Shrubs, up to 1.2 cm tall, with smooth, light brown stems. Leaves large, floppy, velvety, almost round. Petioles with long hairs. Leaves discolorous with conspicuous venation below. Fruit developing inside a cup shaped, fleshy calyx.-17.78330025.2075005
AcanthaceaeCrabbea velutina 9482713 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3351
J Buyns
WIND

Locally frequent. Growing in open grassland on rocky ridge in stony soil.Caprivi, Katima Mulilo: Impilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Erect herb, 6 inches high. Flowers white.-17.78330025.2075005
EuphorbiaceaeCroton gratissimus var. subgratissimus 9482810 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1450
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930180 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 180 cm tall. Leaves: with short petioles. Discolorous. Smooth below, rough above.-17.78330025.2075005
EuphorbiaceaeCroton leuconeurus subsp. leuconeurus 948298 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1398
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9305 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 5 m tall, with drooping branches. Leaves, stems and petioles hairy. Petiole long, with two glands at base of lamina. 5
EuphorbiaceaeCroton menyharthii 9483013 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3357
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island. Livingstone.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Shrub; Notes: Occasional, fairly frequent in woodland. Shrub 6 - 10'. Fruiting.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeCymbopogon caesius subsp. caesius 9483118 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs
330
WIND

Caprivi: Inkasa Island: malapo on banks of Linyanti river.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Graminoid; Notes: Tall, tufted perennial grass, up to 1.75 m high when in flower. Culms basally prostrate, rooting from lower nodes, markedly geniculate to ascending but never entirely erect, sturdy, reed-like, terete straw-coloured with nodes dark brown-banded, smooth and glabrous, unbranched. Leaf blade narrowly lanceolate, 10 - 30 x ca. 1 cm, gradually tapering, expanded but margins revolute, stiff and harsh to the touch, glabrous but for sparse pulverulent indumentum, margins white, minutely prickled, blue-green, base rounded and slightly notched. Ligule a narrow, brown, membranous ridge, glabrous. Leaf base 80 - 120 mm long, not overlapping nor tightly circumculmate, basally imbricate otherwise open, blue-green to purple-tinted at base, persistent, canaliculate, glabrous. Inflorescence a false panicle, up to 12 cm long, narrowly ellipsoid in outline. Racemes spicate, paired, subtended by foliaceous spathe: 1.5 - 2 (2.5) cm long, lanceolate. Peduncle slender, yellow, glabrous. Spikelets paired, not all awned, ellipsoid, somewhat laterally flattened, 5 x 1.5 mm, greenish; awn basally black with paler upper potion, curved, slender, glabrous, relatively inconspicuous although well exerted. Glumes membranous with dense white indumentum especially along margins; pedicles with similar indumentum.-17.78330025.2075005
Fabaceae subfamily PapilionoideaeDalbergia melanoxylon 9483221 Mar 1989GL Maggs
GL Maggs
765
GL Maggs
WIND

Caprivi: Impilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Shrub; Notes: Straggling shrub, 2 m high. Stems much branched, armed; bark pale. Leaves clustered, imparipinnate. Leaflets obcordiform to obovate, dark green, glabrous, 14 x 8 mm. 5
PoaceaeDichanthium annulatum var. papillosum 9483315 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
35407
WIND

Caprivi: Mpilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Graminoid; Notes: Very rare in grassland. Erect culms, 3 feet. Altitude: ca 3000 feet.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeDigitaria remotigluma 9483413 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3370
WIND

Caprivi: Mpilila island. On banks of Zambezi river.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9309 in high; Graminoid; Notes: Frequent on banks. Half erect culms, 9 inches - 1 foot 3inches.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeDinebra retroflexa var. condensata 9483519 Feb 1969B de Winter
B de Winter
9242
WIND

Caprivi: Om Impalila Island, Caprivi Strip.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Graminoid; Notes: Erect to ascending, soft-leaved annual, tufts along roadside in disturbed places in deep sandy soil. Altitude: 1000 - 1500 m.-17.78330025.2075005
EbenaceaeDiospyros lycioides subsp. sericea 948368 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1411
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9304 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 4 m tall, growing mixed up with another shrub. Branches pendulent. Leaves: soft and hanging, discolorous, velvety below. Fruit: ovoid, with pointed apex, enclosed in a calyx with 5 long, slender sepals.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeEchinochloa colona 9483715 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3386
L Fish
ES Klaassen
WIND

Caprivi: Mpilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Graminoid; Notes: Marsh; locally common. Culms erect. Altitude: about 3000 feet.-17.78330025.2075005
Fabaceae subfamily MimosoideaeElephantorrhiza goetzei subsp. goetzei 948388 Nov 2002BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1404
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island. At floodplain.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930150 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 150 cm tall. Leaves: large, with 12 - 14 pinnae pairs. Leaflets asymmetric, but with distinct lamina on both sides. Marked pulvinus. Young stems, petiole and rachis of new leaves red. Fruit: pods, 35 - 40 cm long, cylindrical, with large seeds demarcated by swellings in the pod.-17.78330025.2075005
MeliaceaeEntandrophragma caudatum 948399 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1436
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Common, but localised.Caprivi, Katima Mulilo District: Impalila Island. On a rocky hill.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Tree, 30 m high. Trunk single, large diameter. Bark peels off in woody discs to reveal a pale, smooth undersurface. Leaves clustered on terminal shoots, paripinnate, discolorous, pendulent, with long petioles and petiolules. Leaflets opposite. Leaves whorled. Fruit a large pod, with 5 woody valves splitting open to reveal a central, pithy core.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeEragrostis gangetica 9484012 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3326
WIND

Caprivi: Mpilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 93016 in high; Notes: Grassveld near marsh; very locally common. Erect culms, 16 inches high.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeEragrostis inamoena 9484112 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3324
L Smook
WIND

Caprivi: Mpilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9304 ft high; Graminoid; Notes: Edge of marsh; locally common. Erect culms; 4 feet. Quoted in: Grasses of South Africa 151: (1990).-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeEragrostis lappula 9484218 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs
334
WIND

Caprivi: Inkasa Island: malapo on banks of Linyandi River.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Graminoid; Notes: Tufted, perennial grass, up to 1 mm high when in flower. Culms sturdy, erect to basally slightly geniculate but then sharply ascending, yellow-green, nodes brown-banded, smooth, glabrous. Leaf blades 6 - 30 cm long, linear, tightly rolled and gradually tapering to a sharp tip, basally somewhat expanded but not differentiated at collar, yellow-green ciliate with long, white, straight hairs concentrated along basal margin, fairly erect and rigid, persistent. Ligule a narrow membranous ridge bearing dense white indumentum which extends onto collar region. Leaf sheath overlapping at basal region of culm only, about 7 cm long, tightly clasping, canaliculate, about glabrous except for upper margin at collar junction, yellowish to conspicuously maroon-tinted at base. Inflorescence an open panicle, broadly ovoid in outline, about 20 x 8 cm, borne on slender peduncle, 20 - 30 cm long. Secondary axis alternate to basally whorled, slender, flexuous, glabrous but for conspicuous long, white, bristle-like indumentum at junction with main axis, 3 - 4 cm long. Spikelets stalked to subsessile, ovate to narrowly ovate, 5 - 12 x 2 - 3 mm. Lower glumes purple-tinted with long white bulbous-based hairs along margin, awnless.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeEragrostis rotifer 9484315 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3409
WIND

Caprivi: Mpilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Graminoid; Notes: Locally common in moist depressions in old lands. Erect culms, 3 feet. Altitude: 3000 feet.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeEragrostis viscosa 9484418 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs
384
WIND

Caprivi: Inkasa Island: malapo on banks of Linyandi River.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Graminoid; Notes: Erect, annual, up to 40 cm high when in flower. Culms semi-erect to somewhat geniculate, sturdy, terete, with long white indumentum, glandular and terete, with long white indumentum, glandular and sticky, bright green with purple tints at nodes. Leaf blades expanded, tapering gradually towards apex, bright green, 5 - 15 cm x 5 mm, with long, white, straight hairs concentrated abaxially, base auriculate with conspicuous band of long, white, straight hairs on collar. Ligule membranous but fringed along upper margin with white hairs. Leaf sheath circumculmate, glandular, relatively densely pubescent, about 50 mm long, not overlapping. Inflorescence a sticky, open, panicle, narrowly ovoid in outline, about 15 x 3 cm, sheathed at base by foliaceous spathe. Secondary axes delicate, sinuate, not whorled, at most 3 cm long, basally erect but expanding towards middle of axis. Spikelets awnless, minutely ovoid but laterally flattened, 4 - 8 flowered, about 1,5 mm long. Glumes purple, ciliate.-17.78330025.2075005
SalicaceaeFlacourtia indica 948459 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1424
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9303 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 3 m tall. Stems: smooth, light brown with sharp spines. A single sharp spine at base of most leaves. Leaves: circular, velvety. Fruit: a round berry about 5 mm long, with a ring of persistent calyx at apex.-17.78330025.2075005
Apocynaceae subfamilies Asclepiadoideae and SecamonoideaeFockea multiflora 73158No date2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 0Cited in Bruyns (2014), Apocynaceae of Namibia0.0000000.0000002
RubiaceaeGardenia resiniflua subsp. resiniflua 9484615 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3402
WIND

Caprivi: Mpilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Shrub; Tree; Notes: Altitude: about 3000 feet. Occasional in woodland. Shrub/tree, 12 feet.-17.78330025.2075005
RubiaceaeGardenia volkensii subsp. spatulifolia 948478 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1415
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9305 m high; Shrub; Notes: Stiff shrub, 5 m tall. Stems: stiff, smooth, silver, with lateral branches coming off in three's. Fruit: oval, green, with remains of flower at apex. Leaves: spathulate, smooth, bright green.-17.78330025.2075005
AsteraceaeGrangea maderaspatana 9484815 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3396
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Herb; Notes: Frequent among boulders on banks of Chobe river. Decumbent herb, 1 foot. Heads yellow. Altitude, about 5000 feet.-17.78330025.2075005
Malvaceae subfamily GrewioideaeGrewia bicolor 9484920 Mar 1989GL Maggs
GL Maggs
745
GL Maggs
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Shrub; Notes: Straggling shrub, 3 m high. Bark dark grey, peeling; branchlets deep red-brown. Leaves elliptic, 60 x 30 mm, margin denticulate, base slightly oblique; adaxially dull green, with minute stellate hairs; abaxially silvery green, densely velutinous. Fruit 1 or 2-lobed, green-brown.-17.78330025.2075005
Malvaceae subfamily GrewioideaeGrewia flavescens var. flavescens 9485021 Mar 1989GL Maggs
GL Maggs
773
GL Maggs
WIND

Caprivi: Impilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Shrub; Notes: Small spreading shrub, 1 m high. Bark red-brown. Leaves elliptic ovate, margin dentate, 30 x 15 mm, olive green, dense stellate indumentum on both surfaces. Flowers past. Fruit a berry, globose to 2 - lobed, yellow-brown, with dense stellate indumentum.-17.78330025.2075005
Malvaceae subfamily GrewioideaeGrewia pachycalyx 948518 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1394
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island. At main lodge buildings.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930380 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 380 cm high. Stems: round, smooth, brown, arching and floppy. Leaves: hairless, thinly textured. Base tapering, almost symmetrical. Apex attenuate, margin serrate and undulate. Petiole short. A pair of stipules at base of each leaf. Flowers: leaf opposed, white. Fruit: 4 lobed.-17.78330025.2075005
CelastraceaeGymnosporia senegalensis 948527 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1375
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930170 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 170 cm tall. Stems: smooth, silver. Leaves: leathery, finely serrate apically. Fruits: clustered reddish brown seed cases, 2 valves, with chocolate brown seeds.-17.78330025.2075005
HernandiaceaeGyrocarpus americanus subsp. africanus 948539 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1429
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island - Eastern end of Island. Rocky hill.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 93010 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 10 m high. Others were taller. Trunk: very smooth, shiny, silver tinged with bronze. Leaves: clustered terminally, soft, pendulous, velvety, distinctly discolorous, cordate. Herby smell. Rocky hills. Locally common.-17.78330025.2075005
Malvaceae subfamily MalvoideaeHibiscus allenii 9485413 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3356
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Herb; Notes: Altitude: about 3000 feet. Woodland. Very locally common. Erect herb, 2 feet. Flowers red.-17.78330025.2075005
Malvaceae subfamily MalvoideaeHibiscus articulatus 9485513 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3363
S Rügheimer
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Herb; Notes: Occasional in grassland. Erect herb, 3 inches. Flowers white. Altitude about 3000 feet.-17.78330025.2075005
CelastraceaeHippocratea indica 7730113 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3345
NKB Robson
SRGH

PRE

In dense bushMpilila Island, Eastern Caprivi2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Woody scrambler; rare.-17.77765025.2247306
CelastraceaeHippocratea indica 9485613 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3345
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Caprive Zipfel: Mpilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Scrambler; Notes: Rare in dense bush; woody scrambler.-17.78330025.2075005
CelastraceaeHippocratea parviflora 948578 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1413
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9303 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 3 m tall, very sparse growth. Flowers: strongly scented, shiny yellow, in loose sprays. Spray axillary. Leaves opposite, velvety, bright green, somewhat discolorous, distinct venation below.-17.78330025.2075005
Apocynaceae subfamilies Asclepiadoideae and SecamonoideaeHuernia levyi 73187No dateImpalela Island, Zambezi River2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 0Cited in Bruyns (2014), Apocynaceae of Namibia 2
AcanthaceaeHygrophila pilosa 9485815 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3394
WIND

Growing among boulders along river/stream bank.Caprivi, Katima Mulilo District: Impalila Island, among boulders on banks of Chobe River.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Herb. Prostrate, carpet-forming herb. Flowers purplish blue.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeHyperthelia dissoluta 9485918 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs
389
WIND

Caprivi: Inkasa Island: malapo on banks of Linyanti river.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Graminoid; Notes: Tall tufted, perennial grass, up to 1.5 m when in flower. Culm erect to slightly geniculate at base reed-like, terete, dull green to beige with nodes marked by purplish band, glabrous. Leaf blade tightly rolled, basally concentrated, 10 - 15 cm long, base clearly auriculate, dull green, glabrous, rigid, margins scabrous. Ligule a membranous ridge without indumentum, pale brown. Leaf base loosely circumculmate, becoming only slightly imbricate at extreme base, glabrous. Inflorescence an open, interrupted panicle, subtended by foliaceous spathe, up to 50 cm long. Racemes subtended by foliaceous spathes, 20 cm long, ca. 4 - 6 spikelets per raceme. Spikelet subtended by lanceolate spathe, 3-flowered, 1 cm long. Awn twisted, yellowish, bent, 80 mm long with dense white adpressed indumentum. Stalks with dense, white, bristly indumentum.-17.78330025.2075005
Fabaceae subfamily PapilionoideaeIndigofera ormocarpoides 9486015 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3401
WIND

Caprivi: Eastern Caprivi Strip. Mpilila.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9305 ft high; Shrub; Notes: Virgate shrub, about 5 feet high. Growing in woodland.-17.78330025.2075005
Fabaceae subfamily PapilionoideaeIndigofera schimperi var. baukeana 9486113 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3341
WIND

Caprivi: Eastern Caprivi Strip. Mpilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Herb; Notes: Decumbent herb. Flowers pink. Growing in moist parts of Mopane veld. Locally frequent.-17.78330025.2075005
ConvolvulaceaeIpomoea coptica var. coptica 9486212 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3335
WIND

Caprivi: Eastern Caprivi Zipfel: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Herb; Notes: Disturbed areas near fields, occasional. Prostrate herb, flowers white.-17.78330025.2075005
ScrophulariaceaeJamesbrittenia elegantissima 9486328 Dec 1958DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3167
OM Hilliard
WIND

Caprivi: Linyanti area. 5 miles from Linyanti on road to Katima Mulilo.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Herb; Notes: Decumbent, viscid aromatic herb, 1 feet and 3 inches. Flowers yellow. Locally frequent in Terminalia woodland.-17.78330025.2075005
KirkiaceaeKirkia acuminata 948648 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1395
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island. At lodge buildings.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9306 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 6 m high. Stem: rough, silvery. Leaves: whorled at ends of branches. Leaflets: small. Flowers: small, with 4 creamy petals and 4 stamens, in sprays on a long peduncle, arising away to leaves.-17.78330025.2075005
RubiaceaeKohautia caespitosa subsp. brachyloba 9486515 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3390
DE Mantell
WIND

Caprivi: Mpilila Island. Near banks of Chobe river.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Herb; Notes: Erect herb, 3 feet, flowers white. Occasional.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeLeptochloa uniflora 9486613 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3347
WIND

Caprivi: Mpilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Graminoid; Notes: Locally common in dense bush. Erect culms, about 1 feet - 1 feet 3 inches. Altitude: 3000 feet.-17.78330025.2075005
PhyllanthaceaeMargaritaria discoidea var. nitida 948677 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1391
MM Uiras
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Notes: Leaves: obovate, smooth, hairless, alternate, discolorous.-17.78330025.2075005
BignoniaceaeMarkhamia zanzibarica 9486820 Mar 1989GL Maggs
GL Maggs
743
GL Maggs
WIND

Caprivi: Impilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Tree; Notes: Small, slender tree, 5 m high. Bark rough. Leaves imparipinnate; obovate in broad outline; leaflets 5/7, ovate to circular, up to 80 x 70 mm, olive-green, glabrous to finely pubescent. Fruit a capsule, slender, elongate, dark brown with white lenticels.-17.78330025.2075005
MelastomataceaeMelastomastrum segregatum 9486915 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3383
WIND

Caprivi: East Caprivi Zipfel: Mpilila Island; very locally common on banks of small river.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Herb; Notes: Erect herb, 2 feet high. flowers purple.-17.78330025.2075005
Fabaceae subfamily MimosoideaeMimosa pigra 948707 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1381
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 93080 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 80 cm tall, riverine. Stems: reddish-brown, hairy, with tiny, hooked, scattered thorns. Rachis hairy, glandular, with paired thorns between pinnae. Flowers in pink balls. Pods: in clusters. Very hairy and glandular.-17.78330025.2075005
SapotaceaeMimusops zeyheri 948718 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1407
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 93020 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 20 m tall, with rough bark, splitting into rectangular blocks, like a crocodiles skin. Leaves: bright green above, smooth and shiny, paler below. Flowers: axillary. Ovary with 2 rows of sepals (4 each, curled back), then a ring of creamy white petals standing erect, 10, then what looks like another ring of petals closed around the ovary, with the pistil protruding, no stigma. Fruit: oval, fleshy, with large pip. Orange/yellow.-17.78330025.2075005
LythraceaeNesaea rigidula 9487212 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3323
KL Immelman
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island, edge of marsh.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Herb; Notes: Altitude: about 3000 feet. Locally common, decumbent herb, 9 inches, flowers orange.-17.78330025.2075005
OlacaceaeOlax dissitiflora 948737 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1389
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9304 m high; Tree; Notes: Small tree, 4 m tall. Leaves: alternate, undulate, pendulent, somewhat discolorous, smooth, hairless, thinly textured. Fruit: oval, pendulent, single.-17.78330025.2075005
SalicaceaeOncoba spinosa 9487415 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3397
WIND

Caprivi: Eastern Caprivi. Mpilila Island. On banks of Chobe River.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 93010 ft high; Shrub; Notes: Scrambling shrub, about 10 feet high. Fruiting. Fairly frequent. Altitude about 3000ft.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaePanicum novemnerve 9487518 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs
336
WIND

Caprivi: Inkasa Island: malapo on banks of Linyandi River.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Notes: Tall, tufted perennial grass, up to 1 m high when in flower with slender, creeping rhizome. Culms erect but basal nodes tend to be slightly geniculate, sturdy, terete, exposed internodes, green with nodes dark brown-banded, striate with dense, long, white, straight, bulbous-based indumentum (verrucose due to persistent hair bases). Leaf blade linear to narrowly lanceolate, tapering gradually to bluntish tip, 15-25(-30) cm long, 4-6 mm wide, expanded, margins somewhat involute, bright green with soft downy adpressed indumentum and also indumentum type as found on culm on both surfaces, base conspicuously auriculate with brown collar region. Ligule an inconspicuous membranous arc bearing a fringe of short white hairs, more prominent on collar. Leaf sheath clasping basally but open near nodes, not overlapping, dull green with slight tinting basally, conspicuously pubescent with same hair types as previous described, deeply canaliculate. Inflorescence an open panicle, rotund-ovate in outline, about 23 x 18 cm, borne on long, slender peduncle, spathe lacking. Main axis rigid and sturdy but terminally delicate and sinuous. Secondary axis ascending, alternately arranged, occasionally whorled, up to 20 cm long. Racemes 25 cm long. Spikelets paired (1 often reduced), minutely ellipsoid, about 2 x 1-1.5 mm. Glumes membranous, glabrous, awnless, 7 - veined, pale green. Caryopsis ellipsoid but adaxially flattened, apex acute, smooth shiny, dark brown, 1 mm long.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaePanicum trichonode 9487618 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs
342
WIND

Caprivi: Inkasa Island: malapo on banks of Linyandi River.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930grass; Notes: Tall tufted perennial up to 1 metre high when in flower. Culms somewhat geniculate at base but generally steeply ascending to erect, smooth and glabrous, covered over entire length by leaf sheaths, green to purple-tinted unbranched. Leaf blades 10-25 cm long, linear to narrowly lanceolate mostly folded but occasionally expanded, gradually tapering to a fine tip, fresh bright green, fairly hard and rigid, glabrous except for lower margins with long white straight indumentum, also somewhat denticulate (=remains of bulbous-based hairs), base rounded to slightly auriculate. Ligule a rim of dense, short, white, straight hairs, mostly confined and not extending onto collar. Leaf sheath 70-110 mm long, overlapping, loosely circumculmate, deeply canaliculate, glabrous, dull green but strongly red-brown to purple-tinted. Inflorescence a panicle, narrowly flabelliform to ovate in outline, 9-14 cm x 3-5 centimetre, initially enclosed in and later peduncle basally subtended by upper leaf. Racemes (25-)40(-60) mm long, alternately arranged on main axis; secondary axis steeply ascending, flexuous, glabrous. Spikelets minutely ovoid, 2.5-3 x 1.5 mm paired, 1 sessile and 1 stalked, stalk apically cupular, pale green, often purple-tinted, glabrous, awnless although upper glume apically aristate. Stigma branches apically exerted, deep purple.-17.78330025.2075005
SapindaceaePaullinia pinnata 948778 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1400
PRE

WIND

Caprivi: Smaller islands in Zambezi River.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Creeper; Notes: Creeper with woody stem, fluted. young stems green and deeply fluted. Leaves compound, stiff, shiny green. Petiole and rachis winged. Leaflet shiny, smooth, bright green, margin irregularly toothed, venation prominent. Flowers in axillary spikes and long peduncle, with a tendril at top of peduncle. Creamy white with yellow stamens.-17.78330025.2075005
RubiaceaePavetta gardeniifolia var. gardeniifolia 9487813 Jan 1957DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3344
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Tree; Notes: Altitude: about 3000 feet. Dense bush, occasional. Slender tree, 12'. Flowers dirty white.-17.78330025.2075005
RubiaceaePentodon pentandrus var. minor 9487915 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3395
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Herb; Notes: Altitude: about 3000 feet. Rare among boulders of rapids in Chobe River. Weak growing herb. Flowers pale blue.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaePerotis patens 9488018 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs
385
WIND

Caprivi: Inkasa Island: malapo on banks of Linyandi River.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Graminoid; Notes: Tall, tufted, annual grass, up to 1 m high when in flower. Culm erect and shortly articulated, branched, terete, sturdy, smooth, glabrous, beige to purple-tinged. Leaf blade broadly sagittate, short, 5 x 1 cm, dull grey-green with purple tinges, expanded, usually not reflexed, clearly ciliate with margins harshly scabrid, abaxially, conspicuously striate, base auriculate. Ligule an inconspicuous membranous ridge without indumentum. Leaf sheath beige to pale green, glabrous, up to 4 cm long, not overlapping, margins not imbricate or touching although circumculmate. Inflorescence a dense spike, up to 25 cm long, initially sheathed by foliar spathe, rapidly withering; peduncle 10 cm long. Spikelets 2-awned, narrowly ovoid, up to 3 x 0,5 mm, initially adpressed against axis but 1 prior to falling. Awns pale green but later discolouring to deep purple, flexuous, unbristled.-17.78330025.2075005
ArecaceaePhoenix reclinata 948817 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1380
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island, riverine..2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9303 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 3 m tall. Leaves: long, up to 1.5 m (just the tip sampled). Clusters of oval green fruits on yellow green stalks, hanging down.-17.78330025.2075005
PhyllanthaceaePhyllanthus pentandrus 9488223 Mar 1976J Vahrmeijer
J Vahrmeijer
3179
WIND

Caprivi: North-western Kalahari, 200 km north of Nata on road to Kasane.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9300.3 m high; Herb; Notes: Level; soil, sand, well-drained, savanna; full sun. Hemicrypto, annual, herbaceous, 0.30 m; occasional; flower white.-17.78330025.2075005
Fabaceae subfamily CaesalpinioideaePiliostigma thonningii 9488313 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3377
WIND

Caprivi: Eastern Caprivi Strip. Mpilila Island. In woodland.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Tree; Notes: Tree 20 - 25 feet high. Flowers white. Rare.-17.78330025.2075005
LamiaceaePremna senensis 9488513 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3374
WIND

Caprivi: Mpalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Shrub; Notes: Rare in woodland; woody scrambler/shrub 12 feet high.-17.78330025.2075005
ConnaraceaeRourea orientalis 9488815 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3389
WIND

Caprivi: Mpilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Climber; Notes: Occasional on banks of Chobe river. Woody climber. Seeds red.-17.78330025.2075005
SalvadoraceaeSalvadora australis 948899 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1426
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impilila Island. Pan area.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 180 cm high. Fairly browsed. Fruit: red berries.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeSchmidtia pappophoroides 9489018 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs
391
WIND

Caprivi: Inkasa Island: Malapo on banks of Linyandi River.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Graminoid; Notes: Tufted, perennial grass up to 0,75 m high when in flower. Culms ascending to strongly geniculate at base, often rooting from prostrate nodes, upper nodes conspicuously crimson-banded. Rhizome globose, surrounded by densely velutinous leaf remains. Leaf blade lanceolate, 200 x 10 mm, usually expanded blue-green with margins whitish glabrous although margins appear minutely setulose, hard and scabrous to the touch. Ligule inconspicuously fimbriate. Leaf sheath blue-green to red-purple tinted, shallowly canaliculate and white-ribbed, finely pubescent, loosely circumculmate, basally imbricate, overlapping, 5 cm long. Inflorescence a relatively dense panicle, narrowly ovate in outline, 160 x 50 mm. Raceme 50 mm long, ascending, not rigid. Spikelet stalked, ovoid to slightly cucuform, 1 cm long, densely pubescent, awned. Glumes membranous, green-ribbed, persistent.-17.78330025.2075005
AnacardiaceaeSearsia quartiniana 948868 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1414
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9306 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 6 m tall. New growth brown, velvety. Leaves: shiny green, smooth above, light green and rough below. Upper surface shiny and sticky. Margins very slightly crenate.-17.78330025.2075005
AnacardiaceaeSearsia quartiniana 9488712 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3331
RO Moffett
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Notes: Woodland. Rare to occasional. Shrub, 7', sterile. Altitude: 3000'.-17.78330025.2075005
Fabaceae subfamily PapilionoideaeSesbania sesban var. nubica 948917 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1378
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island. On side of Zambezi River.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Tree; Notes: Tree, 3 m tall. Main stem brown, young stems green. Leaflets fairly large. Habitat: river bank.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeSetaria sagittifolia 9489213 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3348
WIND

In shade in dense bush; common.Caprivi: Mpilia Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Graminoid. Erect culms, 9 inches - 2 feet.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeSetaria verticillata 9489318 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs
338
WIND

Caprivi: Inkasa Island: malapo on banks of Linyanti River.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Graminoid; Notes: Tufted annual grass up to 1 m high when in flower. Culms basally geniculate but ascending, bright green to yellowish, nodes brown and swollen, glabrous, branched, slightly flattened, exposed along upper length. Leaf blades bright, fresh green, lanceolate, 15 - 25 cm long, up to 1 cm wide (in middle portion), narrowing and auriculate at base tapering gradually to blunt tip, expanded, margin white and scabrous due to minute setulose indumentum, both surfaces with dense, long, white indumentum, distinctly ribbed, not rigid but reflexed and limp, harsh to the touch. Ligule a narrow membranous ridge masked by dense white straight indumentum continuous on collar. Leaf sheath 50 - 60 mm, not overlapping, loosely circumculmate, distinctly ridged, yellowish green with dense, long, white mainly adpressed indumentum. Inflorescence a contracted panicle appearing spicate, up to 60 x 12 mm borne on a slender peduncle, 55 - 60 mm long. Racemes short, up to 8 mm long, verticillately arranged along axis. Spikelets ellipsoid, 1.5 - 2 mm long, alternately but irregularly arranged on axis interspersed with long, barbed, yellowish spines, up to 12 mm long. Glume thinly membranous, green, glabrous. Entire inflorescence harsh and scabrous to the touch.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeSorghum arundinaceum 9489413 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3375
WIND

Abundant in old lands.Caprivi: Mpalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Erect culms, 2 feet 6 inches.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeSporobolus fimbriatus 9489528 Dec 1958DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3177
WIND

Caprivi: Linyanti Area.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Graminoid; Notes: Locally frequent in moist depressions in woodland. Erect culms, 4 feet 6 inches.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeSporobolus ioclados 9489615 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3422
WIND

Caprivi: Mpilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9303 ft high; Graminoid; Notes: Locally abundant in moist depressions in old lands. Erect culms, 3 feet.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeSporobolus pyramidalis 9489712 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3336
WIND

Caprivi: Mpilila Island. Banks of Chobe River at edge of marsh.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9304 ft high; Graminoid; Notes: Fairly frequent. Erect culms, 4 feet.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeSporobolus spicatus 9489818 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs
383
WIND

Caprivi: Inkasa Island: malapo on banks of Linyandi River.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Graminoid; Notes: Shorty-tufted, spiny, perennial grass, stoloniferous, forming over dense cover, 40 - 50 cm high when in flower. Culms erect to geniculate, rooting at nodes, slender, terete, glabrous, dull yellow-green. Leaves basal with bases persistent. Leaf blade tightly rolled, conspicuously spine-tipped, rigid and erect, grey-green, 20 - 150 mm long, slightly auriculate and yellow at base, abax. with long, white hairs especially basally also conspicuously ciliate. Ligule a narrow fringe of white hairs, 1 mm wide. Leaf sheath short, at most 40 mm long, not circumbulmate glabrous but finely ciliate along margin. Inflorescence a contracted panicle, spicate, 10 - 12 cm x 3 mm, borne on long, slender, articulated peduncle. Lateral spikes up to 1 cm long, erect against apex. Spikelets awnless, minute, 2 mm long, densely arranged, entirely deciduous.-17.78330025.2075005
Apocynaceae subfamilies Apocynoideae and RauvolfioideaeStrophanthus kombe 73146No date2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 0Cited in Bruyns (2014), Apocynaceae of Namibia0.0000000.0000002
Apocynaceae subfamilies Apocynoideae and RauvolfioideaeStrophanthus kombe 948999 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1435
PRE

WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Climber; Notes: Climber with rough, dark chocolate brown stems with large white lenticels. Leaves opposite and decussate, thick, crinkled, discolorous, very hairy below. Hairs wiry. Flowers creamy white with pink and yellow throat and very long trailing edges to petals. Pods large like cows horns.-17.78330025.2075005
LoganiaceaeStrychnos madagascariensis 9490021 Mar 1989GL Maggs
GL Maggs
764
GL Maggs
WIND

Caprivi: Impilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Tree; Notes: Medium compact tree, 6 m high. Bark smooth, greyish; with knobby dwarf shoots. Leaves elliptic - obovate, 50 x 25 mm, abaxially dark shiny green, coriaceous, abaxially Sparsely velutinous, 3 - veined at base.-17.78330025.2075005
LoganiaceaeStrychnos potatorum 9490115 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3400
WIND

Caprivi: Mpilila Island. Near banks of Zambesi River.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Tree; Notes: Tree 12 - 15 feet high. Fruiting. Occasional.-17.78330025.2075005
MyrtaceaeSyzygium guineense subsp. barotsense 949027 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1384
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 93018 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 18 m high, with drooping branches. Young stems light brown. Leaves: opposite, pendulant, discolorous, smooth, hairless. Flowers: in terminal clusters with lots of creamy stamens tipped with a hint of pink. Riparian Forest.-17.78330025.2075005
Fabaceae subfamily PapilionoideaeTephrosia villosa subsp. ehrenbergiana var. daviesii 9490321 Mar 1989GL Maggs
GL Maggs
771
S Kruger
WIND

Caprivi: Impilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Herb; Notes: Sturdy herb, stems rigid, ribbed, with dense white to yellow hirsute indumentum. Leaves imparipinnate. Leaflets elliptic - obovate, 25 x 10 mm, densely sericeous. Pods falcate to curled, dense yellow hairs.-17.78330025.2075005
CombretaceaeTerminalia brachystemma subsp. brachystemma 9490415 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3381
WIND

Caprivi: Mpililia Island; occasional in woodland.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Tree; Notes: Tree; 20 -25 feet high.-17.78330025.2075005
CombretaceaeTerminalia randii 949058 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1416
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9306 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 6 m tall, with layered canopy. Leaves: clustered on dwarf shoots, which stick upwards from branches on leafless trees. Leaves obovate, smooth, hairless, discolorous.-17.78330025.2075005
CombretaceaeTerminalia sericea 949069 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1430
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9305 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 5 m tall, layered canopy. Leaves: clustered on short lateral shoots, silver, especially below. Flowers: cream, closely packed on axillary spikes. Last season's pods still on, winged, light brown.-17.78330025.2075005
CombretaceaeTerminalia stuhlmannii 9490713 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3366
WIND

Caprivi: Mpilila Island; occasional in woodland.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Tree; Notes: Tree 15 feet.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeThemeda triandra 9490815 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3385
WIND

Very abundant locally in grassland.Caprivi: Eastern Caprivi Strip: Mpilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Erect culms. 2 feet 6 inches.-17.78330025.2075005
Malvaceae subfamily MalvoideaeThespesia garckeana 9479515 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3404
PRE

WIND

Caprivi: Eastern Caprivi. Mpilila Island, occasional in woodland.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Tree; Notes: Tree, 20; flowers yellow.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeTrachypogon spicatus 9490918 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs
390
WIND

Caprivi: Inkasa Island: malapo on banks of Linyandi river.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9301 m high; Graminoid; Notes: Tall, erectly tufted perennial grass, 1 m or higher when in flower. Culms erect, terete, reed-like, smooth, glabrous, straw-coloured to purplish tinted nodes dark brown-banded with conspicuous whorl of erect, long, white, straight hairs, unbranched. Leaf blades linear, up to 65 cm long, tightly rolled, tapering to an extremely fine, whip-like apex, grey-green, glabrous base conspicuously auriculate with collar developed into 2 narrow, elongate projections. Ligule an inconspicuous brown membranous ridge, glabrous. Leaf sheath tightly circumculmate over entire length, up to 30 cm long, grey-green to purplish tinted, shallowly canaliculate, glabrous, persistent and woody at base around rhizome. Inflorescence a panicle, flabelliform in outline, 250 x 80 mm, borne on sturdy, often contorted, spathed peduncle. Racemes 20 cm x 7 - 8 mm, arranged closely and digitately not rigid, most often reflexed, axis clearly articulated, marked by banding and hair whorls. Spikelets paired, narrowly ovate, 7 - 8x 1 - 2 mm, each subtended by a dense whorl of long white hairs. Glumes membranous pale to dark green to purple-tinted, densely pubescent, 7-veined black-pitted. Lower flower with aristate apex; upper flower conspicuously awned. Awn extremely long, up to 7.5 cm long, rigid, whip-like, contorted, densely pubescent, basally yellow-brown. Anthers large, up to 3 mm long, apically exerted. Stigma branches laterally exerted.-17.78330025.2075005
MeliaceaeTrichilia emetica subsp. emetica 949107 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1379
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 9306 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 6 m tall, riverine. Stems: smooth, grey. New growth velvety. Leaves: with marked pulvinus, sometimes paripinnate, sometimes imparipinnate. Petiole up to 15 cm long, velvety. Rachis velvety. Petiolules thick. Leaflets smooth, dark green above, yellow green and velvety below with marked venation. Fruit: ovoid, green, velvety, with 6 segments demarcated by grooves.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeTripogon minimus 9491113 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3371
WIND

Caprivi: Livingstone district. Mpilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Graminoid; Notes: Locally abundant on rocky outcrops. erect culms, about 6''. Quoted in: Kew Bull. 25:303 (1971) by L.M. Phillips & E. Launert.-17.78330025.2075005
PoaceaeUrochloa trichopus 9491213 Jan 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3343
WIND

Locally common in moist part of mopane veld.Caprivi: Mpilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Graminoid. Erect culms, 2 feet tall.-17.78330025.2075005
Fabaceae subfamily PapilionoideaeXeroderris stuhlmannii 949139 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1423
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 93020 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 20 m tall, single trunk. Bark: sort of rough, in large rectangular pieces. Leaves: large, imparipinnate. Marked pulvinus. Terminal leaflet articulated. Leaflets undulate, opposite, more or less concolorous, with prominent venation. Fruits: pods brown, with a single seed surrounded by a leathery wing, pointed base and apex.-17.78330025.2075005
OlacaceaeXimenia americana var. microphylla 949149 Nov 2001BA Curtis
BA Curtis
1425
C Mannheimer
BA Curtis
WIND

Caprivi: Impalila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930180 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Scrambling shrub, 180 cm tall, 2 m in diameter. Stems: brown to green. Leaves: blue-green, folded up along midrib, clustered on spiny lateral shoots. Fruit: oval, pendulous.-17.78330025.2075005

Number of records found: 150


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