Collections made by Mike Bingham

Suffrutex in fallow field.

Tips of fronds take root when they touch ground

Flower

Flower.

15m tall tree .

Medium-size tree.

Cultivated. Flower. (ex. Nat. Bot. Gard., Harare.

With Salix and Phragmites.

Flowers

Flowers white.

Inflorescence green.

Tree in village

Coppiced tree.

Weed in cultivation.

River bank at foot of gorge. Caudex erect.

Lake Kariba. Open woodland.

Stunted tree, 4m high. Flowers.

Local at woodland margins.

Dominant woodland tree.

Sterile.

Tree in riverine forest.

Small tree at foot of steep hill. Wavy leaflet margins distinguished this from B.floribunda. Sterile.

Tree in woodland and riverine fringe. ‘Muzombo’ (Lungu)

Woodland codominant.

Seedlings.

Shrub in thicket.

Silt over limestone.

NU: Tentative, "spikelets mostly disintegrated")

Garden weed

Cultivated from seed obtained from the Zimbabwe National Botanic Gardens.

Flowers in bud

Weed.

Ruderal.

Straggling herb in grass.

Flower

Fruit. Bole slightly fluted.

Tree on termite mound.

Temporary pool

Temporary pool

Rooted in mud.

Tree in woodland. Flowers pink.

Spreading and upright; stems dull green; calyx very light green; standard a dull yellow-light orange, inside brighter yellow; wings bright yellow; keel light green; young pods light green.

Frequent, among grasses; calyx green; bracteole deep red-purple; standard pale orange with darker red-purple stripes; wings similar; keel pale orange at beak, light green proximally.

Abundant at roadsides.

Ruderal.

Erect habit.

Locally abundant; shrub to 2 m; standard yellow with dark purple nerves, lighter inside; wings yellow with light purple nerves; keel green at base, purple-black at upper margin and at beak; pods inflated green, some with red-purple colour.

Occasional; annual or perennial with taproot; calyx light green; standard yellow with darker red nerves in and out; wings and keel yellow to light green, DNA.

Glaucous.

Abundant in depressions.

Annual weed.

Weed of cultivation.

Very large plant, glaucous, culms 3-angled & grooved on sides.

In bays, forming colonies at water's edge.

Semi-aquatic.

Over flowering97

2m. tall

large sedge in stream bed

K, det D.Simpson as Cyperus sp

large sedge in stream bed

Soft annual with very small roots.

Shrub in thicket.

Scandent shrub

Mauve flowers.

Weed.

Dambo edge fallow.

Dambo.

Aquatic.

Cultivated from seed, ex Chilanga.

Dambo.

Abundant.

Rare; in miombo woodland; from spindle-shaped tuber; calyx green; standard green with deeper green stripes inside; wings bright yellow; keel light green, dark at apex; mature pods brown-black.

Flowers blue.

Small woodland tree.

Bark

Large tree.

Large tree.

Swamp forest tree. Branches supported by adventitious roots.

Swamp forest tree. Branches supported by adventitious roots.

Tufted.

(NU: Material young and lacking the mature achenes needed for full confirmation of this idenification).

Small tree amongst rocks

Weed

An early specimen, others still in bud

Shrub on termite mound, sterile.

Bracts pale lilac.