Indigofera torulosa var. angustiloba – common on the roadside verge where we stopped.
Pachystigma dealbata – never seen this before. It looks dried up and insignificant until you look closely.
Thesium goetzeanum (I think) – not a good photo because as usual I thought I was looking at another of the same. It turns out it wasn’t.
Polygala refracta (top) and Polygala rhinostigma – two polygalas looked very photogenic
Aloe dominella – with old flower heads. We inadvertently stumbled on this special, it is just so different to all the other aloes.
Hermannia brachymalla I think. New to me.
Dolichos angustifolius – I have stumbled across this only once before next to the railway line on the exposed shale at Oribi Airport. I thought it was an introduced plant at first. The pressed specimens at BEWS call it D angustissimus.
Ledebouria ovatifolia subsp scabrida – this was our target species for this CREW trip but where we had found it three years before the site had been turned into a ploughed field. This small population had been saved by living on a steep road verge.
Pomeria sandersonii – I loved the old name Hoffmannsteggia because it is almost impossible to forget! Notice I’m holding the flower upside-down. The anthers are those black spots resting in the cup-shaped lower petal.
This is a 5cm tall Salvia in Lamiaceae. Any suggestions?
This is another colour form of Dolichos angustifolius.
Undescribed Gomphocarpus with chocolate brown corona.
Justicia odora – another yellow Justicia easily confused with Justicia flava.
2080 Adenia hastata var. glandulifera – the flower very missable. I visited this bush twice, a month apart and realised that the flowers were hidden within themselves appearing not to develop.
Midlands CREW 