Jacobsbaai
A town on the west coast with flora high in endemism on the granite or limestone that remains in the area. It is threatened by housing developments that despoil the coastline.
Nodes
Euphorbia
Lachenalia
Corycium orobanchoides
Stachys aethiopica
Crassula natans
Cysticapnos vesicaria
Cysticapnos
Tulbaghia
Romulea hirsuta
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Taxonomy term
Tripteris clandestina
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From the Latin ‘clandestina’ / ‘clandestinus’ meaning ‘secret’
Tulbaghia
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For Ryk Tulbagh (Rijk Tulbagh) (1699–1771), Dutch governor of the Cape Colony from 1751 to 1771. When only 16, he emigrated to the Cape as a Dutch East India Company employee on a five-year contract to be used as needed. The governor, Maurice Pasques Chavonnes, recognised the young man’s ability and gave him an administrative post as assistant clerk of the secretary of the political council, the start of a career that ended in his being made governor of the Cape. He was a responsible governor who, inter alia, codified the slave laws of the country with set rules for slave management. He corresponded with Linnaeus in 1763 and sent him seeds, and several birds. The town of Tulbagh is named after him.
Ursinia anthemoides
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Wiborgia fusca
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from the Latin fusca meaning 'dusky' or 'dark brown'
Zantedeschia
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For Giovanni Zantedeschi (1773–1846), an Italian physician, pharmacist and botanist. He studied medicine and surgery at the universities of Verona and Padua. His botanical interests centred on the flora of Brescia, northern Italy, where he discovered and described several new genera such as Laserpitium nitidum, family Apiaceae. He authored Descrizione dei Funghi della Provincia Bresciana (1820) and other works. He corresponded with the German botanist Kurt Sprengel (1766–1833), who named the plant Zantedeschia after both Giovanni and his son Francesco Zantedeschi (1797–1873), professor of physics and philosophy at the University of Padua, who carried out experiments in electrical currents and magnetism.
Zygophyllum
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Gk. zygon = a yoke; phyllum = leaf. The leaves are usually bifoliolate – the two leaflets are as if ‘yoked together’.
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