Drakensberg
The Drakensberg Mountains at 3482m at their highest point are the highest in South Africa. Sharing the mountains with the landlocked Kingdom of Lesotho, they are part of the chain of sky-islands that make up a linked flora along the east of Africa. There are many species endemic to the Drakensberg and its flora is well renowned.
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Polygala
Pachycarpus dealbatus
Pelargonium pulverulentum
Delosperma
Zantedeschia aethiopica
Tritonia lineata
Diclis rotundifolia
Dierama robustum
Heliophila formosa
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Taxonomy term
Euphorbia striata
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striped, from Latin striatus 'provided with channels or grooves'
Geum
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Gk. geum = to taste well, possibly derived from geyo (geuo) = to impart a pleasant flavour; referring to the roots of the species.
Grey Crowned Crane
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Gunnera
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For Johan Ernst Gunnerus (1718–1773), Norwegian clergyman, naturalist collector and renowned scholar. He studied at the universities of Copenhagen (1737), Halle (1742) and Jena (1745), became professor of theology at the Copenhagen University (1754) and bishop of Trondheim (1758). He founded Norway’s first scientific institution, Det Trondhiemske Selskab (The Trondheim Society), which became the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters in 1766. He was the author of Flora Norvegica (1766–1776) and was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He discovered many plants, animals, fish and birds not known to science and had extensive correspondence with the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus about them.
Haemanthus humilis
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From the Latin humilis = ‘humble’; referring to a low or sprawling habit
Helichrysum
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Gk. (h)elios = sun; chrysos = gold; referring to the bright yellow flowerheads of many of the flowers of species in this genus.
Helichrysum aureum
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From the Latin aureus = 'golden', typically referring to the flower colour.
Helichrysum pilosellum
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Latin, from Greek helikhrusos, from helix ‘spiral’ + khrusos ‘gold’. It originally denoted a yellow-flowered plant, possibly Helichrysum stoechas .
Heliophila
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Gk. (h)elios = sun; philein = to love. The plant likes a sunny position.
Hibiscus aethiopicus
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From the Latin aethiopicus = 'Ethiopia'; pertaining frequently to Africa in general, not just Ethiopia.
Hypoxis
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Gk. hyp(o)- = beneath, less than; oxys = sharppointed, sour; alluding to the leaves, which are acid; ‘Quod folia sint acidula (Hypoxis)’.
Indigofera
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Indigo is derived from the La. indicus, Gk. indikos, referring to India; La. ferax = bearing. Indigo is blue dye (cf I. tinctoria).
Massonia wittebergensis
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From the Witteberg mountains of the northern Klein Karoo of South Africa