Records made by Hines

Hydrophyte; Notes: Floating. Substrate: water. Exposure: full sun. Moisture: river and backwater. Slope: level. Other: in backwater and held by hygrophytic herbs ex river-bank. Plant features: floating. Common.

Graminoid; Notes: Loamy sands in an area dominated by Acacia erioloba with a well developed understory of shrubs and grasses. Grass. Annual. Up to 30 cm high. Very common in disturbed areas along the road. Most of the plants were dry and finished flowering. Few plants still green.

Tree; Notes: Tree. Up to 8 m in height. Growing on deep dystrophic sands which are heavily leached. Flowers in axillary spikes (few in tree). Leaves pale green when young. Softly hairy. Common.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub, up to 1.2 meters high. Growing on side of termitaria. Flowers in terminal clusters, white. Fruits when young green, hard. When mature bright orange with distinct fruit, softly fleshy. Area of mopane woodland with scattered termitaria, numerous small pans. Soils largely clays and clay loams, blackish.

fern; Notes: Substrate: soil and boulders. Soil: alluvial, sand/silt and humus. Exposure; shade. Lithology: (soil) and quartzite. Slope: steep. On lower vertical bank of old canal. Plant features: Fronds up to 110 cm tall. Occasional.

Graminoid; Notes: In sandy soil on verge of main road into the research station. Leached Kalahari sands, pale grey. Area dominated by Baikiaea plurijuga with a dense understory of shrubs. Grass layer sparse. Grass up to 50 cm high. Common in shade.

grass; Notes: Vegetation type: hygrophilous open herbs. Soil: sand (alluvial). Exposure: full sun. Slope: level. Plant features: early colonizer; stem and sheath purple. Common.

Graminoid; Notes: In sandy soil on verge of main road into the research station. Leached Kalahari sands, pale grey. Area dominated by Baikiaea plurijuga with a dense understory of shrubs. Grass layer sparse. Grass. Up to 30 cm high. Common.

Graminoid; Notes: Vegetation type: open scrub. Soil: sandy soil and boulders. Exposure: full sun. On lower bank of river. Lithology: (soil) and quartzite. Slope: moderate. Plant features: leaves pungent, side branches on older culm appear to have been washed by earlier high river level. Common.

Herb; Notes: Dense Baikiaea/Combretum woodland with thick shrub layer. Deep sandy soils. Up to 50 cm high. Woody. Flowers: with keel petal blue, lower four petals white. Flowerbuds violet. Uncommon.

Hydrophyte; Notes: Substrate: 'bare' (wet) rock. Exposure: sun and partial shade. Other: on boulder of rapids/old low weir. Moisture: river rapids. Lithology: Nosib quartzite. Plant feature: small herb, horizontal stem closely affixed to substrate. Occasional.