Cedarberg
A semi-arid largely wilderness area comprising rugged mountains. The mountains are north-south trending and several ranges wide. It is home to a large number of endemic species including the famous snow Protea, Protea cryophila.
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Erica glabra
Erica distorta
Erica daphniflora
Erica curviflora
Erica cristiflora var. cristiflora
Erica
Erica cernua
Erica cerinthoides
Erica calycina
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Taxonomy term
Euryops speciosissimus
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From the Latin speciosus = 'beautiful', 'splendid', 'spectacular' and -issimus the superlative form = 'extremely', 'most'.
Euryops tenuissimus subsp. tenuissimus
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From the Latin tenuis meaning ‘fine / thin / slender’ and -issimus denoting 'very'; meaning very slender
Euryops thunbergii
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For Carl Pehr (Peter) Thunberg (1743–1828), Swedish botanist, physician, student of Linnaeus, professor of botany and medicine at Uppsala University (1784–1828) who visited the Cape from 1772–1775 to study the Cape’s flora.
Eustegia
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Gk. eu- = good, well; stege = roof, cover; alluding to the triple corolla.
Eustegia
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Gk. eu- = good, well; stege = roof, cover; alluding to the triple corolla.
Felicia
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Origin uncertain. La. felix = happy, cheerful, though in the neuter plural form felicia = happy things; possibly a reference to the bright flowers. Other sources vaguely refer to a mysterious German official in Regensburg called Felix who died in 1846 but speculatively and more probably for the Italian Fortunato Bartolomeo de Felice (1723–1789), an Italian scholar established in Yverdon who led the European team that wrote the Yverdon Encyclopedia, published between 1770 and 1780 in 58 quarto volumes. This superseded the Parisian Encyclopedie of Diderot and d’Alembert published between 1751 and 1772.
Felicia cymbalariae
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From the Latin ‘cymbalar’ / ‘cymbalaris’ meaning ‘a plant called the cotyledon’; and the Latin ‘iae’ / ‘ia’ meaning ‘adjectival suffix’.
Felicia dregei
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Commemorates the brothers Carl Friedrich Drege (1791-1867) and Johann Franz Drege (1794-1881) of Huguenot ancestry. Prodigious botanists and plant collectors in the Cape.’
Felicia dubia
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From the Latin dubius = 'doubtful'
Felicia filifolia subsp. schaeferi
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Felicia hirta
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From the Latin hirtus = 'hairy' and flora = 'flower'
Ferraria
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For Giovanni Batista Ferrari (1584–1655), Italian Jesuit, professor of Hebrew and rhetoric at the Jesuit College in Rome, horticultural advisor to the Pope, and author of many illustrated botanical books, including De Florum Cultura in four volumes (1633), a horticultural book emphasising the planning and planting of gardens, and Hesperides sive de Malorum Aureorum cultura (1646), a ‘citrus encyclopedia’. He also wrote a Latin-Syrian dictionary, a series of Orations – treatises on rhetoric, which emphasised good Latin usage, and a book on Sienese saints. He was the first scientist to provide a complete description of the limes, lemons and pomegranates, and their use in preventing scurvy.
Ficinia
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For Heinrich David August Ficinus (1782–1857), German physician, naturalist, botanist, professor of physics and chemistry at the medical-surgical academy in Dresden (1814), then was professor of natural history (1817). From 1822 onwards he worked in his father’s pharmacy but also taught chemistry, technology and physics at the Technical Training Institute in Dresden (1828–1833). He wrote several literary works, textbooks and papers in the fields of botany, optics and mineral chemistry. They include Flora of the Area around Dresden (1807), Optics or Attempts to Follow the Right Outline of the Whole Theory of Light (1828), Foundations of Medical Physics, Foundations of Medicinal Chemistry (1815), and General Natural History (1839) (titles translated from German).