Records determined by Rügheimer

Determinations: 25

The following is a list of the records determined by Rügheimer in species name order.

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NoSpeciesRecord dateRecorder(s)Coll.Det.Conf.HerbariaHabitatLocationLoc code(s) Outing codePlanted code Country QDSGrid ref.FZ DivAlt. (m)NotesLatLongLoc Acc Code
95427Asparagus buchananii24 Jan 2005S Bartsch
MM Hochobes
S Kruger
ES Klaassen
S Bartsch 1832 S Rügheimer WIND
In Omuramba, dense wood- and shrubland.Caprivi, Mukwe: Caprivi strip, Omuramba before Divundu.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1822A21017

Woody climber. Main stem with large hooks, glabrous, light grey, twining in trees and shrubs. Leaves linear, needle-like, very long, in fascicles.

-18.02500022.3408302
93410Asparagus buchananii23 Jan 2005S Bartsch
MM Hochobes
S Kruger
ES Klaassen
S Bartsch 1810 S Rügheimer WIND
Common. In shade under trees.Caprivi, Katima Mulilo: Between Kongola and Omega 3, in Omuramba.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1723C1983

Suffrutex with a tendency to climb in other shrubs and trees. Main stems light to dark brown, smooth, with a large hook at each node, much branched, lateral stems many, armed. Leaves needle-like, long, in fascicles of 3-5 on the lateral shoots, fascicles far apart. Flowers and fruit absent.

-17.74944023.1608305
94794Asparagus buchananii13 Nov 1959DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick OA Leistner 3362 S Rügheimer WIND
Rare in woodland.Caprivi, Katima Mulilo: Impilila Island.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3930

Herbaceous climber. Twisting.

-17.78330025.2075005
93200Chamaecrista absus5 Mar 2010MM Hochobes
ES Klaassen
S Rügheimer
HR Hasheela
D Aiyambo
S Rügheimer 2895 S Rügheimer WIND
Frequent but restricted. Omuramba. Partial shade.Caprivi: Along road B8, to Kongola.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722D31007

Annual herb, 25 cm high. Flowers single, orange. Leaves compound, consisting of 4 leaflets. Stems thin, erect, hairy. Pods green, flat, sickle-shaped, covered with glandular hairs.

-17.93277822.6686115
93134Cissampelos mucronata24 Jan 2005S Bartsch
MM Hochobes
S Kruger
ES Klaassen
S Bartsch 1819 S Rügheimer WIND
Caprivi: Caprivi strip, Rundu-Katima road, between Divundu and Omega.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722C41005

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.

-17.97500022.4833305
95484Cissampelos mucronata22 Jan 2005S Bartsch
MM Hochobes
S Kruger
ES Klaassen
S Bartsch 1798 S Rügheimer WIND
Caprivi: Caprivi Strip, south of Omega 3, along Botswana border.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1822B2990

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.

-18.02722022.9619402
95436Commelina africana24 Jan 2005MM Hochobes
MM Hochobes 1232 S Rügheimer WIND
Caprivi: Caprivi Game Park.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1822A21033

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

-18.00778022.4219402
93318Commelina africana22 Jan 2005S Bartsch
MM Hochobes
S Kruger
ES Klaassen
S Bartsch 1784 S Rügheimer WIND
Caprivi: Caprivi Strip, south of Omega 3.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722D41007

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.

-17.89778022.8933305
93319Commelina benghalensis21 Jan 2005MM Hochobes
MM Hochobes 1151 S Rügheimer WIND
Caprivi: Caprivi Game Park; Divundu-Kongola road.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722D41023

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

-17.88278022.8747205
95437Commelina benghalensis24 Jan 2005S Bartsch
MM Hochobes
S Kruger
ES Klaassen
S Bartsch 1826 S Rügheimer WIND
Caprivi: Caprivi strip, along Rundu-Katima road, between Divundu and Omega.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1822A21017

25 cm high; Herb; Notes: Annual herb, 25 cm high. Flowers small, blue, spathe valves fused at the base, bracts sparsely covered with bristly hairs. Leaves elliptic, scabrid, tapering into a long narrow cylinder at the base, ochna with red bristles along the margins. Stems erect, hairy, green. White sand. Under trees in shade.

-18.00778022.4213902
93138Cyanotis longifolia24 Jan 2005S Bartsch
MM Hochobes
S Kruger
ES Klaassen
S Bartsch 1821 S Rügheimer WIND
Caprivi: Caprivi strip, Rundu-Katima road, between Divundu and Omega.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722C41015

Herb; Notes: Herb. Flowers in dense axillary clusters, blue, filaments feathery, tepals short, bracts with a white woolly indumentum. Leaves very long, lanceolate, stiff, held erect, folded along the midrib, covered with a white woolly indumentum. Voucher for photograph. Growing under trees in shade. Scattered. White sandy soil.

-17.98333022.4600005
93323Cyanotis longifolia22 Jan 2005S Bartsch
MM Hochobes
S Kruger
ES Klaassen
S Bartsch 1786 S Rügheimer WIND
Caprivi: Caprivi Strip, south of Omega 3.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722D41003

Herb; Notes: Annual herb. Flowers blue, sessile, enclosed in bracts, filaments feathery, blue, anthers yellow, bracts woolly. Stems and leaves woolly. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, long, glabrous above. White loamy sand. Rare. Growing under trees in partial shade. Voucher for photograph.

-17.95333022.9163905
95487Cyanotis longifolia22 Jan 2005MM Hochobes
MM Hochobes 1186 S Rügheimer WIND
Caprivi: Divundu-Kongola main road; at Omega, turn-off towards Botswana.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1822B2972

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

-18.00611022.9472202
94998Cyanotis longifolia19 Jan 2005MM Hochobes
MM Hochobes 1070 S Rügheimer WIND
Caprivi: Caprivi Game Park; Divundu - Kongola road.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1821A11092

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.

-18.00111021.0591702
93093Erythrophleum africanum20 Jan 2005S Bartsch
MM Hochobes
S Kruger
ES Klaassen
S Bartsch 1753 S Rügheimer WIND
Caprivi: Caprivi Game Park, Omega fire strip/ cutline.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722C31037

Shrub; Notes: Low shrubs up to 1 m high, with drooping foliage. Leaves compound, alternate, stipules present, leaflets large, oblong to rhombic, asymmetric, velvety, midrib displaced, light green below. Stems light brown, coppicing shoots velvety. Mixed shrubland and woodland. White sand. Common.

-17.98639022.1033305
93345Euphorbia hirta21 Jan 2005MM Hochobes
MM Hochobes 1160 S Rügheimer WIND
Caprivi: Omega 3.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722D41017

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

-17.84639022.9063905
95502Gloriosa superba22 Jan 2005MM Hochobes
MM Hochobes 1181 S Rügheimer WIND
Caprivi: Road Divundu - Kongola; at Omega, turn-off toward Botswana.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1822B2972

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.

-18.00611022.9472202
93349Gloriosa superba21 Jan 2005S Bartsch
MM Hochobes
S Kruger
ES Klaassen
S Bartsch 1771 S Rügheimer WIND
Caprivi: Caprivi Strip, pan near Omega base camp.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722D41004

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.

-17.84972022.9066705
93153Gloriosa superba24 Jan 2005MM Hochobes
MM Hochobes 1217 S Rügheimer WIND
Caprivi: Caprivi Game Park.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722C41009

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

-17.97944022.4675005
93106Neorautanenia mitis20 Jan 2005S Bartsch
MM Hochobes
S Kruger
ES Klaassen
S Bartsch 1754 S Rügheimer WIND
Caprivi: Caprivi Game Park, Omega fire strip/ cutline.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722C31038

60 cm high; Suffrutex; Notes: Suffrutex, 60 cm high. Flowers in a terminal raceme, small, deep purple. Leaves compound, trifoliolate, stipules present. Stems erect, green, hairy. Voucher for photograph. Very attractive when in flower. Would make a good garden plant. Scattered but localized, in Omuramba.

-17.98250022.1033305
95410Scadoxus multiflorus subsp. multiflorus20 Jan 2005S Bartsch
MM Hochobes
S Kruger
ES Klaassen
S Bartsch 1749 S Rügheimer WIND
Growing in shade under tree, in white sand.Caprivi: Caprivi Game Park, Omega firestrip/ cutline.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1822A1 1030

Geophyte, 0.30 m above ground. Berries orange to red, in a dense umbel, scape fleshy. Leaves large, oval, held erect and apressed against the scape, shiny, green, undulating, base amplexicaul.

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95468Tacazzea apiculata11 Apr 2014E Tjiteere
E Tjiteere 8 S Rügheimer WIND
Occurs on a depression slope dry river/stream bed. Growing in moist loamy clay, in full sun. Biotic effect: recently burnt.Caprivi, Mukwe District: Bwabwata National Park.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1822A20

Annual herb, 20 cm high. Stem slender, covered by silvery hair, light green below and dark brown to pink above, stem are runners. Leaves simple, dark green above, light green below, heavily covered by hair. Obovate to ovate leaf shape, with bristle-tip and round base. Roots fibrous system, dark grey to black.

-18.01711122.4777782
94548Tinospora afra1 Mar 1982MAN Müller
MAN Müller 1848 S Rügheimer WIND
Caprivi: Lusikili.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D10

Tree; Notes: Twiner on trees and shrubs. Berries red when ripe.

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95418Tribulus terrestris20 Jan 2005S Bartsch
MM Hochobes
S Kruger
ES Klaassen
S Bartsch 1743 S Rügheimer WIND
Caprivi: Caprivi Game Park, along tar road between Divundu and Kongola.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1822A11042

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.

-18.04250022.0030602
95021Tribulus terrestris19 Jan 2005S Bartsch
MM Hochobes
S Kruger
ES Klaassen
S Bartsch 1716 S Rügheimer WIND
Caprivi: Caprivi Strip, along Rundu-Katima road.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1821A11069

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.

-18.00111021.0591702


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