Klein Karoo
The Little Karoo is separated from the Great Karoo by the Swartberg Mountain range. Geographically, it is a 290 km long valley, only 40–60 km wide, formed by two parallel Cape Fold Mountain ranges, the Swartberg to the north, and the continuous Langeberg-Outeniqua range to the south. The northern strip of the valley, within 10–20 km from the foot of the Swartberg mountains is most un-karoo-like, in that it is a well watered area both from the rain, and the many streams that cascade down the mountain, or through narrow defiles in the Swartberg from the Great Karoo.
Nodes
Androcymbium
Viscum
Drimia physodes
Oxalis flava
APIACEAE
Chlorophytum
Othonna hederifolia
Leucospermum wittebergense
Babiana
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Taxonomy term
Cephalophyllum
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Gk. kephale = a head; phyllon = leaf; referring to the compact heads of leaves in some species.
Ceropegia africana
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Ceropegia fimbriata
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From Latin fimbriātus = 'fringed' or 'fibrous'
Ceterach
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Possibly from the Gk. sjetrak, or the Persian chetrak, both ancient names for ‘fern’. The name was used by Persian physicians.
Chaenostoma
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Gk. khaino = gape, split, open; stoma = mouth; referring to the corolla tube, which opens widely.\
Chlorophytum
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Gk. chloros = yellow-green; phyton = a plant; referring to the green colour of the leaves and the flowers.
Chrysithrix
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Name from the Greek chrusos, gold and thrix, hair.
Chrysocoma
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Gk. chrysos = gold; kome = hair, locks; referring to the golden terminal heads.
Cineraria
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La. cinereus = ash-coloured. Most species of this genus have leaves with an ashen-grey haircovering on at least the lower surface.
Cineraria lobata
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Cliffortia
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For George Clifford (1685–1760), Dutch merchant and banker, amateur botanist and zoologist. He was a director of the Dutch East India Company and owned a magnificent garden at Hartecamp, Netherlands, as well as a private zoo in Amsterdam. George Clifford is best known as a patron of the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus, whom he employed as ‘hortulanus’ and who catalogued the family’s unique collection of plants, herbarium and library. The result was Linnaeus’s 530-page book Hortus Cliffortianus (1738), his first important work, in which he described many species from Clifford’s garden. The publication was paid for by George Clifford as a private edition.
Cliffortia ilicifolia
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From the Latin ‘ilici’ / ‘ilex’ meaning ‘holly’; and the Latin ‘folia’ / ‘folium’ meaning ‘leaf’.
Cliffortia ruscifolia
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With leaves resembling the genus Ruscus (Asparagaceae)
Clutia
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For Theodorus Augerius Clutius (Outgers Cluyt) (1577–1636), Dutch botanist, horticulturalist, beekeeper and pharmacist, eldest son of Dirck Outgaertszoon Cluyt (Clutius) (1550–1598) from Delft, an apothecary, curator of the Leiden botanical garden, and an authority on medicinal herbs. Outgers studied and worked with his father in the garden. After his father died he hoped to become his successor, but failed in the attempt. Thereafter, he studied at the University of Montpellier for several years. Between 1602–1608 he travelled to France, Germany and Spain, and also, later, on three occasions to the desert of Barbary in North Africa to increase his knowledge and collect plants for the Leiden botanical garden. Leiden University rewarded him handsomely for his efforts. On his return to the Netherlands (1618), he worked as a physician and during that time worked hard to promote the Amsterdam Hortus Botanicus where he obtained a job against strong opposition. Herman Boerhaave honoured Outgers (and his father) by naming Clutia pulchella after them.