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Annual herb, 0.30 m high. Leaves opposite, elliptic. Flowers funnel-shaped, white with purple markings, single, in terminal leaf axils. Stems round, erect.

Annual herb. Flowers trumpet shaped, white with purple markings. Leaves opposite, thinly textured, dark green.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub up to 2 m tall, in flower. Flowers white with a yellow base, sweetly scented, in the terminal leaf axils, sepals red. Branches drooping. Leaves alternate, obovate, softly pubescent, mucronate, undulating. White sand. Frequent.

Shrub; Notes: Shrubs, 60 - 100 cm high. Flowers white with a yellow base, sweetly scented. Leaves alternate, obovate, softly pubescent, undulating, apex mucronate. Stems round. White loamy sand. Common.

Shrub; Notes: Tall shrubs, up to 3 m high. Flowers white with a yellow spot at the base, in pairs or 3's in the leaf axils, sweetly scented, sepals red. Branches drooping, brown, woody. Leaves alternate, obovate, softly pubescent, mucronate. Frequent.

Creeper; Notes: Annual creeper. Leaves alternate, cordate, felty, apex rounded or notched, mucronate. Stems trailing, many radiating from the centre, mostly unbranched, brown. Fruit small fleshy berries, red, round, sessile, in terminal leaf axils. Uncommon. On road verge.

Climber; Notes: Climber, growing in fence. Leaves small, cordate, velvety, light green below, dark green above, apex pointed. Stems flexuous, twining around fence, pubescent, light green to brown. Flowers tiny, in terminal panicles, yellowish-green, hairy on the outside. Black clay. Rare.

25 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 25 cm high. Flowers yellow, petals spatulate, 2-lobed, subtended by a falcate bract. Bract slit open to base, margins covered with erect hairs. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, softly pubescent, ochna hairy, densely appressed to stem. White sand. Scattered under trees in shade.

Herb; Notes: Small annual herb, 5 - 10 cm high. Stems mostly unbranched, erect, herbaceous, light green, sparsely pubescent. Leaves linear, lamina long and narrow. Stipules very long and narrow, reddish. Flowers small, yellow, sessile, in pairs in the terminal leaf axils. Pods long, linear, narrow, split into 3 horns at the apex. Common but localized.

Climber; Herb; Notes: Climbing herb. Stems thin, brown, with milky latex, occasionally climbing. Leaves opposite, elliptic, dark green with yellowish venation, apex pointed. Fruit a horned pod, in pairs. Occasional. In woodlands under trees in partial shade. White sand.

Herb; Notes: Herb, 20 - 35 cm high. Leaves opposite, elliptic, dark green, veins yellowish, apex pointed. Stems thin, dark brown, sometimes twining, with milky latex. Fruit immature, long, cylindrical. White sand. Common.

1 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 1 m high. Leaves drooping, large, oval, thinly textured, dark green, shiny, petiole long, slender, yellow. Stems brown, slender, sparsely branched from the base, with milky latex. No flowers or fruit. White sand. Common.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub, up to 1m tall. Leaves drooping, large, oval with a teat-shaped apex, shiny, green with yellow venation. Stems lax, thin, brown, with milky latex. White sand. Common.

40 cm high; Suffrutex; Notes: Suffrutex, 40 cm high. Leaves large, compound, bipinnately divided, with 10 pairs of leaflets per leaf, leaflets oblong, asymmetric, glabrous except on midvein, midvein displaced, apex notched. Stems short, light green. Pods large, very broad and flattened off, sickle shaped, light green, apex rounded, base tapering. Dry woodlands. White loamy sand. Uncommon.

Herb; Notes: Annual herb. Flowers small, blue with a white centre, one open at a time. Stems many from the base, thin, covered with erect hairs. Leaves sessile. Occasional on roadverge.

Geophyte; Notes: Geophyte, up to 1 m above ground. Stems floppy, unbranched, round. Leaves sessile, glossy green, lanceolate, tips transformed into tendrils. Flowers large, showy, held upside down like a lantern, tepals reflexed, red, yellow at the base filaments green. Black clay. Occasional. Voucher for photograph.

Tree; Notes: Large trees, up to 20 m high. Trunk rusty brown with pieces of black old bark. Leaves bifoliolate, leaflets sickle-shaped, shiny, dark green, leathery. With fruit and buds. Pods half-moon shaped, brown. Occasional.

Climber; Creeper; Notes: Annual climber. Flowers large, trumpet shaped, single, pale purple flushed dark purple towards the centre. Leaves large, cordate, alternate, dark green above, white below with netted venation. Stems floppy. Large underground tuber. White sand. Growing under a tree in shade. Rare. Voucher for photograph.

2 m high; Climber; Notes: Annual climber, 2 m high. Leaves large, cordate, on a long, stiff petiole, light green below with white netted venation, dark green above. Flowers large, axillary, trumpet shaped, faded, pale purple shaded deep purple towards the centre. Stems twining, light grey, velvety. Capsules immature, obovate, green. Rare.

Creeper; Notes: Annual creeper. Stems prostrate, pubescent, green, no milky latex. Leaves opposite, elliptic, stiff, margins wavy. Flowers in axillary corymbs, cream, corolla lobes star shaped, fused at the base to from a short cup. White limestone gravel. Common on road verges.

Suffrutex; Notes: Spreading shrubby herb, 60 - 70 cm high. Plant covered with irritant hairs. Leaves alternate, large, cordate in outline, 5-lobed, felty. Flowers large, pale yellow with a dark maroon centre. Stems flaccid. Common on roadverge.

Shrub; Notes: Spreading herbaceous shrub. Flowers light yellow with a maroon centre, style branched. Epicalx lobes many, filiform. Leaves cordate, 5-lobed, dark green, felty. Stems floppy, erect to ascending, light green, felty. Frequent on roadverges and disturbed areas.

3 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 3 m high. Trunk grey, covered with thick corky bark, longitudinally fissured. Leaves opposite, obovate to round, hairy above and below, 5 veins arising from the base, runnning parallel. Fruit round, hard, up to 5 cm in diameter, green with white speckles. Uncommon. Dry woodland, white loamy sand.

Herb; Notes: Aromatic annual herb, 20 - 40 cm high. Flowers in corymbose spikes, white, asymmetric, bracts purple, petal-like. Leaves sessile, elliptic, aromatic. Stems erect, square, glandular. Scattered on roadverge.

Geophyte; Notes: Geophyte, 40 - 60 cm high. Inflorescence a much-branched panicle. Flowers single, pale yellow, tepals reflexed, filaments pubescent. Leaves in a basal rosette, erect, long and linear, fleshy, terete or angular in cross section, dark green, each leaf enclosed in a pink membranous sheath at the base. Growing below shrubs in Omuramba.

Herb; Notes: Annual herb. Stems prostrate to ascending, sparsely covered with erect hairs. Flowers yellow, petals up to 1.2 cm long. Leaves compound, paripinnate, with 8 pairs of leaflets per leaf, leaflets densely hairy below. White loamy sand. Frequent.

Herb; Notes: Prostrate annual herb. Flowers yellow, less than 1.5 cm in diameter. Leaves compound, paripinnate, with 7 - 8 pairs of leaflets per leaf, leaflets small, densely hairy below, apex pointed. Fruit spiny, round, segmented. Stems prostrate to ascending, maroon to light brown. White sandy loam, limestone gravel, cleared roadverge. Common.

40 cm high; Herb; Notes: Annual herb, 40 cm high. Flowers small, pale yellow, in dense axillary clusters. Leaves elongated ovate, felty. Stems erect. White limestone roadverge, cleared.

40 cm high; Herb; Notes: Annual herb, 40 cm high. Flowers small, pale yellow, fading to rusty brown, in axillary clusters. Leaves alternate, elongate-elliptic, hairy. Stems erect, brown at the base, green upwards. Common on roadverge.

45 cm high; Herb; Notes: Herb, 45 cm high. Flowers small, pale yellow fading to rusty brown, in dense axillary clusters, calyx hairy. Leaves elongated ovate, felty, dark green, venation below reticulate. Stems herbaceous, felty. Common on road verges.

45 cm high; Herb; Notes: Annual herb, 45 cm high. Flowers in dense axillary clusters, small, pale yellow. Leaves elongated-elliptic, felty. Stems erect. Common in disturbed areas.

Creeper; Herb; Notes: Annual prostrate herb. Flowers yellow, funnel shaped. Leaves lanceolate, base 3-lobed. Capsules round. White limestone gravel. Common on road verge.

Climber; Creeper; Notes: Annual creeper or climber. Flowers yellow, trumpet shaped, single. Leaves lanceolate, with 3 teeth at the base, green. Stems filiform, prostrate or twining in grasses and herbs. Frequent. White sandy soil.

Herb; Creeper; Notes: Annual prostrate herb. Flowers yellow, corolla rotate, delicate. Leaves lanceolate with a 3-lobed base, green. Stems thin, creeping or twining. Capsules round. White loamy sand. Common on roadverge.