Records made by Giess

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Notes: Flowers whitish.

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.

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

Notes: Flowers pink, markings yellow with crimson lines.

Notes: Flowers blue, small.

Tree; Notes: Small 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.

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

Notes: Twining in small camelthorn. Milky latex.

Graminoid;

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

Erect, annual grass.

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

Graminoid;

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: 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: 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 to 1.20 m high, many stemmed, to 1.50 m diameter.

Graminoid; Notes: Heavy grey-black clay soil.

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

Graminoid; Notes: Dry woodland.

Plant annual. Flowers white.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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: Multi-stemmed plant, up to 1.80 m high. Shoots from tree stump.

Notes: Sepals white, lower ones pink.

Notes: Growing between sandstone rocks in black sandy soil.

Plants up to 1.5 m tall.

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

Notes: Shrubby plant.

Notes: Half shrub. Flowers golden yellow.

Notes: Plants annual, flowers pale blue.

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.

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

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

Notes: Plants twining. Flowers pale yellow.

Herb; Notes: Annual, woody herb. Common.