Darling Wildflower Area
This is the broad area that encompasses the deep sands and renosterveld of Darling and the surrounds.
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Ruschia tumidula
Crassula saxifraga
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Bulbinella triquetra
Arctopus echinatus
Aspalathus spinosa
Ruschia
Stoebe cinerea
Melolobium humile
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Taxonomy term
Lampranthus amoenus
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From the Latin amoenus = ‘pleasing / pleasant’
Lampranthus aureus
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From the Latin aureus = 'golden', typically referring to the flower colour.
Lampranthus sociorum
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From the Latin sociorum = 'of the companions'; likely referring to friends who discovered the species
Lebeckia spinescens
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From the Latin spina = 'spine', 'thorn', 'prick' or 'prickle' and -escens = 'becoming like'; i.e. the thorns are incompletely formed
Lessertia
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For Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert (1773–1847), French banker, industrialist, philanthropist and amateur botanist. After serving with the Paris National Guard from 1790–1793, where he became an artillery officer, he joined his father’s bank. A gifted and energetic entrepreneur, he started many commercial enterprises – a cotton factory in 1801 and a beet-sugar factory in 1802. He became regent of the Bank of France (1802) and introduced the idea of a savings bank in France (with Jean-Conrad Hottingerces) in 1818. He was an ardent botanist and conchologist with a notable herbarium and a botanical library of 30 000 volumes. He wrote several books and financed several exquisitely illustrated shell books. He was made a baron by Napoleon.
Lessertia frutescens
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'shrub-like' from the Latin frutescens meaning ‘producing shoots’
Lessertia rigida
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From the Latin rigidus = ‘rigid’
Leysera
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For Friedrich Wilhelm von Leysser (1731–1815), German botanist, mineralogist and Prussian civil servant – advisor to the crown on military and domestic issues. From 1758–1765 he studied botany at the University of Halle, becoming a lecturer there. His special interests were algae, bryophytes (mosses), fungi (mushrooms), lichens and spermatophytes (seed plants). He also made a name for himself as a mineralogist collecting some 6 000 specimens on behalf of Karoline Luise of Hesse-Darmstadt. His major work was Flora Halensis (Flora of Halle) (1761), in which he used Linnaean nomenclature. He became first president of the Halle Naturforschende Gesellschaft zu Halle (Naturalist Society in Halle) and founded the Etymological Society of Halle. The genus name was incorrectly spelled.
Limeum africanum
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From the Latin africanus meaning "from Africa"
Lobelia comosa
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From the Latin comosus = 'having long or abundant hairs' or 'with a tuft', 'having many leaves' or 'being leafy'
Lobelia setacea
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From the Latin setaceus meaning ‘bearing bristles’
Lotononis
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Combination of the two generic names Lotus and Ononis, both of which are legumes.
Lotononis hirsuta
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From the Latin hirsutus = ‘hairy’
Maytenus heterophylla
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From the Greek heteros = ‘the other of the two’; and the Greek phyllon = ‘leaf’.