Pentas
Shrub, about a meter tall. Leaves whorled. White flowers with v. long tubes.
Egyptian Starcluster
Now widespread around world as an ornamental. Kenya native herb with five-parted, long tubular flowers. Color is white, pink or red.
Pentanisia
Shrubby plant of grassland savananna about a meter tall with headlike clusters of long tubed blue flowers.
Flame of the Woods
Understory shrub with opposite, dark green, elliptical leaves. Four petals on a long tube. Common, introduced ornamental.
Mexican Clover
Mat forming plant with elliptic, opposite leaves. Small, white, five-petaled flowers in dense terminal clusters. Non-native.
Oldenlandia
Low-growing herbaceous plant with small, whitish, 4-petaled flowers. Opposite, grass- like leaves.
False Buttonweed
Herbaceous plant with small white flowers. Opposite linear leaves.
Kohautia
This slender, delicate forb was found on over-grazed land in the vicinity of Voi. I am not certain my identification is correct.
Common Madder
A slender vine-plant with minute, recurved hooks along the angular stem. Peculiar leaves are whorled, on long petioles and heart-shaped.
Kimolwet
Large, multi-stemmed shrub or small tree with opposite, dark green, simple, entire leaves. Fruit is spherical and orange-red.
Crystal Bark
Small tree with opposite, simple leaves and large umbellate clusters of many white flowers.
Jackel-Coffee
Small tree or large shrub with pubescent, opposite leaves and clumbs or red berries. Many similar species.
Catunaregam
Photo of vegetative structures only; identification is tentative.
Pauridiantha
Small under-story tree in moist montane forest. Simple, opposite leaves with smooth margins. Fruit a berry with many seeds.
Lasianthus
In the understory of forests there are many woody plants in the madder family. Dark green, opposite leaves.