Lize van Staden (of Red List fame) and her husband Rudi were passing through our area on their way to the Cape and we joined them at Vernon Crookes Nature Reserve to help them find the Lasiosiphon of this area and do our normal summer survey of the grasslands at the same time. While we waited for them to arrive we explored the area near the camp and found two yellow Orthochilus species, O. ensatus and O. odontoglossus. Not far from these were a few Monopsis stellaroides, including a white form.
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| Orthochilus ensatus |
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| Orthochilus odontoglossus |
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| Monopsis stellaroides |
When Rudi and Lize arrived we drove off to a different area and botanised while they started measuring and counting leaves, bracts and flowers of the Lasiosiphon they found.
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| The counting and measuring process |
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| Lasiosiphon macropetalus |
Not far from here we were delighted to again find the critically endangered Riocreuxia flanaganii var alexandrina in flower. In 2013 we rediscovered this plant after it had not been seen for several decades. In the same area we found another member of the Apocynaceae, Ceropegia meyeri.
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| Ceropegia meyeri |
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| Riocreuxia flanaganii var alexandrina |
Participants: Debbie K, Dorothy M, Graham G, Kate G, Lize v S, Rudi v S, Uschi T.
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