Eastern Cape
Nodes
Streptocarpus haygarthii
Ceratotheca triloba
Stapelia tsomoensis
Anastrabe integerrima
Huernia thuretii
Streptocarpus rexii
Stapelia macowanii
Ceropegia stapeliiformis
Bowkeria verticillata
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Taxonomy term
Solanum tomentosum
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From the Latin tomentosus = 'densely woolly'
Sopubia cana
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From the Latin canus = 'gray', 'aged' or 'white'; frequently due to the hairs
Spilanthes decumbens
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From the Latin word decumbens meaning 'lying down' or 'prostrate';
Spiloxene
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Gk. spilos = a spot, stain; xenos = host or stranger; referring to the spotted base of the tepals in some species.
Stachys aethiopica
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From the Latin aethiopicus = 'Ethiopia'; pertaining frequently to Africa in general, not just Ethiopia.
Stapelia
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For Johannes Bodaeus van Stapel (1602–1636), Dutch physician and botanist. He received a medical degree in 1625 from Leiden University and studied botany under Adolphus Vorstius. His life’s ambition was to publish an annotated edition of the botanical works of Theophrastus (370–287 BCE), but he died before the book was finished. The content was edited and published by his father as Theophrasti Eresii de Historia Plantarum in 1644. One of the plants in the book, drawn by Justus Heurnius (1587–1653) from his brief stay at the Cape in 1624, was Fritillaria crassa (Stapelia variegata), now known as Orbea variegata. The genus was named Stapelia in 1753 by Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum.
Stapelia macowanii
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Commemorating the botanist Peter MacOwan (1830-1909)
Stenosemis
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Gk. stenos = narrow; semis = ‘half of anything’. The petals of some species of this genus, such as Stenosemis caffra, are curiously shaped as though sliced in places (emarginate).
Strelitzia nicolai
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Named after Czar Nikolai I of Russia
Strelitzia reginae
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Streptocarpus
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Gk. streptos = twisted; karpos = fruit. A characteristic of this genus is its spirally twisted fruit.