Collections made by Lari Merrett

Herb with many pink thorny, sticky branches and leaf stalks from a single stem from a woody rootstock. Leaves long upto +-30cm with +-40 pairs of grey green leaflets +-5x8mm, evenly spaced, slightly overlapping, louvered all along rachis. Leaflets notched at tips, stalkless, cordate. Fruit: sunglass shaped, translucent with on kidney shaped seed visible in each compartment.
3 examples noticed within Mutinondo

Herb with straight fleshy stems, leaves jagged serrations and tip, widest at base, length +-1cm <1.5 times width, louvered up stem. Flouwers cream umbrels.<br /> Common

Single stemmed herb, pale stem, stipules pinkish and sheathlike, leavs single leaflets.
Only noticed this season

Herb, lax stems >1m long, single leaflets along stem, upper +- third of stem rachis with pink flowers and bead shaped fruit in strings of 3, calyx rustic with fur lined margins.
Only seen this season

Monocot. Leaves: light grey-green, long slender, spreading from base. Flower stalk +-1m tall; flowers: widely spaced towards top of stalk, ppetals x 6 blue +-8mmx10mm, rounded to slightly tapered tips.

Mono. Tubers below, leaves graas-like from base, variable lengths, fanning out along one plane, tallest central, shorter to the sides, flower stalk +-15cm above leaves, blue flowers, 6 petals, alternating from larger to smaller, yellow anthers central.

Bauters 137, 148, Merrett 1491, 1849.

Herb +-12cm tall, single stem, leaf covered; leaves: trifoliate, grey-green, hair covered, thick stalk +- length of leaflets; leaflets: compact, thick, stalkless, +-1cm long, +-7times width, widest near tip, curving to pointed tip and narrow base. Flowers growing from axils and top of plant, outside bud and petals orange covered with with white hairs, standard pale yellow with red-orange marks near base, keel yellow tip upwards.
Occasionally seen

Dwarf annual herb, haircovered, leaves trifoliate, leaflet margins curved up forming miniature toboggan runs. Flowers pale yellow, red marks at base of standard.
Locally common

Clumps of hair covered plants creeping along ground. Flowers in clusters of hair covered dark burgundy-brown calyces, pale yellow with burgundy stripes.
Only noticed at this site

Scrambling bush covered with soft light coloured hairs, flowers pale yellow, dark burgundy near base of standard and keel.
First record at MWA

"Annual Dwarf herb, thread-thin stems changing direction at leaf junctions, leaves with single leaflet, flowers yellow with red markings at base of standard.
Not common

Herb +-30cm tall, single yellow-green stem, whirls of three leaves, largest towards top, leaves midrib yellow, blades rounded, curved upwards, pale green below, tips upwards, flowers cream yellow, short stalked, tucked away at axils between stam and leaf. Threats: Unusual

Single stemmed upright herb +-35cm tall from a woody rootstock, slender leaves similar lengths (+-1.5cm x2mm) up stem, distance between leaves decreases towards top, 6 wide triangular sepals, domed grouped of seeds in center. Threads: Common

Herb with bright yellow flowers and grey-silver seedhead. Threats: Common

Suffrutex. fleshy yellowish hair covered stems +-30cm tall, lens-shaped leaves, width 1/3 length, evenly spaced along stems +- 2cm, leaves +- 45 degrees to stem, increasing in size along stem ending up as long as or longer than interleaf space. Flower heads at top, subspjerical cluster of about 50 bright yellow waxy flowers; flower: 5 petals, petals widest at base tapering gently to tip.

Herb, lax stems >1m long, single leaflets along Herb, ground cover; flowers: standard pale yellow with dark red lines, wings red fading to yellow base; fruit: length twice width, flattened, beaked, purplish looped veins.
First record for MWA

Determinated as Scleria remota