Collections made by Marianne Hochobes

5 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, about 5m high. Stem: yellowish, flaking. Leaves: compound, paripinate, leaflets very small, gland present on petiole. Pods brown, leathery.

20 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, about 20m high. Stem: with big horny knobs. Leaves: compound, leaflets opposite, green, margin with a purple line; rachis covered with hook thorns at the back.

50 cm high; Herb; Notes: Tomentose herb, 50cm high. Leaves: ovate, margin dentate. Fruits: with long trichoms, red in colour.

60 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 60cm high. Leaves: ovate, margin serrate. Fruits: green, born on terminal ends of branches, covered with long red trichomes.

20 cm high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 20m high, with fissured bark. Leaves: compound, opposite, leaflets oblique-asymmetric, bicolourous. Rachis and rachilla red.

Herb 50 cm high. Stem glandular with short hairs. Leaves leathery, elongated, ovate and whorled, spirally arranged. Flowers in terminal raceme, yellow rosettes, filament fused and hairy.

30 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 30cm high. Leaves: alternate, ovate - linear - lanceolate on very short petiole. Fruit: legume, constricted at seeds, terminal.

Herb; Notes: Upright herb. Inflorescence: terminal raceme, flowers orange. Leaves: elliptic, lanceolate.

5 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 5m high. Stem: tomentose. Leaves: compound, leaflets sub-opposite, elliptic, leathery, undersurface tomentose, very short petiolate, petiole tomentose; rachilla thickened where it is connected to main rachis. Fruit: brown woody pod/ legume.

Herb, 0.10 m high. Leaves bicoloured, opposite, cordate, soft, margin hairy.

60 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, about 60cm high, with smooth stem. Leaves: trifoliate, leaflets obovate-elliptic, petiole base stipulate. Fruits: translucent legumes.

15 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 15m high. Leaves: compound, leaflets alternate, round, have a grey-green appearance. Growing tips covered with velvet, reddish-brown hairs.

20 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 20cm high, with yellow flowers on long pedicels.

Erect grass 30 cm high. Branched at flattened nodes. Leaves very soft, folded from the base. Inflorescence a spike, it opens up when it gets wet.

30 cm high; Geophyte; Notes: Geophyte, 30cm high. Inflorescence terminal, on long pedicels. Flowers: white, anthers yellow. Leaves: broadly linear - lanceolate, parallel veined, folded in the midrib. Fruit: green berries. Roots: fibrous.

Climber; Notes: Climber with leaves palmately lobed, margins dentate, soft tendril attached at petiole base. Flowers: light orange, hairy inside.

3 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 3m high. Leaves: split into 2 leaflets and joined at the bases, where attached to petiole. Stem: brown.

2 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 2m high. Leaves: paired, leaflets leathery, 8-10 veined.

50 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 50cm high. Leaves: alternate, ovate-elliptic, folded in midrib, margin smooth; ligule fringed. Flowers: terminal, orange-yellow.

30 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 30cm high. Flowers: blue. Leaves: elliptic - lanceolate.

20 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 20cm high. Flower: bright yellow. Leaves: single, ovate - elliptic, margin wavy.

3 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, about 2-3m high. Leaves: single, elliptic, undersurface shiny and above green. Fruit: silver.

50 cm high; Herb; Notes: Soft woolly herb, 50cm high. Flowers: filaments blue in colour and tomentose, anthers yellow. Leaves: linear, folded in the midrib.

10 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 10cm high. Leaves: linear long. Flowers: purple-blue, stamen blue, hairy, anthers yellow.

Perennial grass, 40 cm high. Short nodes. Inflorescence digitate.

Climber; Notes: Climbing herb. Inflorescence: a spike, cream in colour. Leaves: whorled, arranged around the stem.

Herb, 0.20 m high. Hairy at internodes. Flowers in leaf axils in elongated bracts, white. Leaves opposite, elliptic, margin serrate and wavy.

Grass 40 cm high. Stem flattened, smooth towards the base. Ligule fringe of short hairs. Inflorescence digitate.

20 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 20cm high. Leaves: opposite. Flowers: appears in whorled arranged bracts, orange.

Perennial, spreading grass. Leaves leathery, basal. Ligule membranous. Inflorescence paniculate, fine spikelets. Filed in WIND under Eragrostis trichophora

Erect, annual grass. Leave margins with long space hairs. Inflorescence lax raceme, with big sessile compact spikelets.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub. Leaves: compound, tomentose, opposite leaflets.

5 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, up to 5m high. Leaves: compound, opposite, leaflets sub-opposite arranged, tomentose, subsessile. Fruit: green, legume, leathery, constricted at seeds.

Herb; Notes: Hairy, prostrate herb. Flower: head in leaf axils. Leaves: opposite, with brown centre, margin serrate.

Herb; Notes: Prostrate herb. Leaves: opposite, minute, green.

30 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 30cm high. Flowers: single, blue in colour.

Herb; Notes: Procumbent herb. Flowers: purple, clustered, stamen more than 5. Leaves: linear-lanceolate, bicolourous. Stem: red.

Herb; Notes: Procumbent herb. Leaves: linear. Flowers: purple, minute.

1 m high; Geophyte; Notes: Geophyte, about 1m high. Leaves: single. Flowers: yellow, tubular.

Climber; Notes: Fleshy climber, on host Dialium. Leaves: whorled arranged, apex tendrillate. Flowers: red- orange, terminal.

0.5 m high; Geophyte; Notes: Geophyte, 0.5m high. Leaves: whorled, ovate, apex end in tendrils, base broadly tapering. Flower: bright orange/ yellow corolla in six whorled lobes; 6 stamen. Exposure: shade.

Herb; Notes: Prostrate herb, soft hairy. Leaves: obovate. Inflorescence: a terminal spike, white flowers.

2 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 2m high. Stem: rounded. Leaves: soft textured, alternate, base assymetric, apex acute. Fruit: pedicel split in 2, each one bearing a single or paired berry, green-yellow.

2 m high; Shrub; Notes: Stiff hairy shrub, 2m high. Leaves: papery, rough surface, margin dentate, base rounded, apex acute, alternate. Flowers: axillary, calyx yellowish, recurved, corolla yellow recurved, many stamens. Stem: round.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub with squared stem and tendrils. Inflorescence: terminal flowers white, minute. Leaves: whorled, margins dentate.

0.5 m high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 0.5m high. Stem: yellowish. Leaves: linear. Fruits: cream, sessile, 4 projections found on the tip. Flowers: on a long pedicel, tubular, cream.

Suffrutex 60 cm high. Stem square. Leaves opposite, ovate. Margin serate, venation prominent on the under surface. Flowers clustered, minute, tubular, purple. Fruits lilac berries.

0.5 m high; Shrub; Suffrutex; Notes: Suffrutex shrub, 0.5m high. Leaves: compound, leaflets opposite, sessile to sub-sessile, tomentose, obovate to elliptic. Inflorescence: a panicle. Flower: opposite, yellow, trumpet-shape.

2 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 2m high. Leaves: compound, opposite, shiny appearance.

0.5 m high; Shrub; Notes: Low shrub, 0.5m high. Flowers: deep blue. Leaves: trifoliate, terminal leaflet larger than the other two.

50 cm high; Suffrutex; Notes: Suffrutex, 50cm high. Leaves: trifoliate, leathery, obovate. Flowers: terminal, mauve.

20 cm high; Herb; Notes: Aromatic herb, 20cm high. Stem: hairy, squared. Leaves: opposite, ovate, margins dentate. Inflorescence: terminal, flowers found in bracts, minute.

0.5 m high; Geophyte; Notes: Single stemmed geophyte, 0.5m high. Leaves: single broadly lanceolate-elliptic. Inflorescence: a panicle with orange flowers. Underground organ: bulb, with brown horizontal stripes.

1 m high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 1m high. Elongated-ovate, leaves are found at the nodes. Inflorescence: terminal raceme, bright orange flowers.

Erect grass, 1 m high. Stem thick, 1 cm in diameter, hairy at the nodes. Inflorescence paniculate, first row of the inflorescence whorled, other alternately arranged. Spikelets purplish.

Herb; Suffrutex; Notes: Procumbent, suffrutex herb. Leaves: bicoloured, elliptic, base tapering, texture leathery, petiole thickened. Fruits: brown, round to oval.

Shrub; Suffrutex; Notes: Low suffrutex shrub. Leaves: leathery, bicolourous, shiny green above and grey undersurface, elliptic-lanceolate.

3 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 3m high. Leaves: compound, leaflets opposite, rachis reddish-brown, hairy. Fruit: 2-seeded, flattened.

15 cm high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 15cm high. Rachis velvet, rush-brown. Leaves: compound, leaflets mucronate, bicolourous. Fruit: brown, legume, one seeded.

Erect grass, 60 cm high. Leaves basel, ovate, margins ciliate. Inflorescence a terminal spike, about 15 cm long.

10 cm high; Herb; Notes: Small herb, 10cm high. Leaves: linear, alternate. Fruit: green.

12 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 12m high, leaves very big, deep lobed at the apex, base auriculate, 4 main veins going out from the base on each leaflet; petiole thickened at the base.

20 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, about 20m high. Leaves: alternate, ovate-elliptic. Fruit: round with long trichomes in the centre.

Herb; Notes: Procumbent herb. Leaves: cordate, trifoliate. Inflorescence: a raceme with yellow flowers.

0.5 m high; Herb; Notes: Soft hairy herb, 0.5m high. Flowers: palmately lobed, centre yellow, anthers yellow. Leaves: broadly elliptic.

Climber; Notes: Climber, covered with irritating hairs. Flowers: maroon.

Climber; Herb; Notes: Climbing herb with silver, irritating hairs. Leaves: opposite, elliptic. Flowers: yellow.

15 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 15cm high. Leaves: spirally arranged, stiff hairy. Flowers: tubular, in bracts, purple in colour.

20 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 20cm high. Flowers: tubular, in leaf axils, bright orange, rosette shaped. Leaves: alternate.

50 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, about 40 - 50cm high. Leaves: ovate-elliptic, aromatic, margin dentate. Flowers: whitish-pink, terminal.

50 cm high; Herb; Notes: Aromatic herb, 50cm high. Inflorescence: terminal, flowers deep mauve. Leaves: undersurface with prominent veins, lanceolate elliptic, margin dentate. Stem: grooved, tomentose.

Herb; Notes: Procumbent herb, with pink flowers. Leaves: linear - lanceolate, digitate.

Herb; Notes: Procumbent herb. Leaves: digitate. Flowers: purple.

Herb; Notes: Procumbent herb. Leaves: linear-digitate. Flower: purple.

Herb; Notes: Procumbent herb. Leaves: digitate. Flowers: purple.

50 cm high; Herb; Notes: Zigzag stemmed herb, 50cm high. Leaves: compound, leaflets opposite. Flowers: pink. Pods: green, elongated, opposite arranged.

1 m high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 1m high, with a stem armed with reddish trichomes. Flowers: terminal, bright orange, corolla 5-lobed and broadly ovate; calyx yellowish-green, hispid. Leaves: ovate-lanceolate, margin dentate.

Erect grass, 1.2 m high. Leaves leathery, ligule fringe of hairs inner part. Inflorescence terminal. Spikelets big brown and awned each.

Climber; Notes: Climbing herb, with rough surface. Flowers: on a long petiole, bright purple. Leaves: trifoliate, leaflet base palmately lobed; petiole base stipulate.

60 cm high; Herb; Notes: Tomentose herb, 60cm high. Leaves: broadly ovate, margins dentate. Inflorescence axillary, flowers white, minute.

1 m high; Shrub; Notes: Tomentose shrub, 1m high. Leaves: alternate, tomentose, base tapering, apex emarginate, margin hairy.

Tree; Notes: Tree, about 6m high. Leaves: shiny green, armed with 1 hooked and 1 straight thorn.