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
Oftia africana
Pelargonium glutinosum
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Ornithogalum hispidum
Albuca viscosa
Oxalis
Drimia
Drimia
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Taxonomy term
Cullumia
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For Sir John Cullum (1733–1785), British botanist, geneologist, antiquarian, cleric and scholar, and author of History and Antiquities of Hawstead (1785), and his brother, Sir Thomas Gery Cullum (1741–1831), a medical practitioner, surgeon and botanist, member of the Linnaean Society, and author of Floræ Anglicæ Specimen imperfectum et ineditum (1774). Both became fellows of the Royal Society.
Cullumia aculeata
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From the Latin ‘aculeata’ / ‘aculeatus’ meaning ‘prickly’
Cullumia patula
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From the Latin patulus = 'to stand open'
Cussonia
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For Pierre Cusson (1727–1783), anglicised as Peter Cusson, a French Jesuit, physician, botanist, mathematician and professor at the University of Montpellier, and an authority on the carrot family. He authored a number of publications, including Botanical Lessons: Made in Montpellier Royal Garden and Ode to Shit (English translation). He had travelled extensively throughout Majorca, Spain and the Pyrenees, and amassed an excellent collection of specimens, which were regrettably disposed of by an elderly female relative with whom he lived, who cleaned his study in his absence.
Cussonia paniculata
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From the Latin paniculatus meaning 'tufted' or a 'panicle' referring to the form of the inflorescence
Cyanella
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La. cyaneus = greenish-blue, Gk. kyanos = dark blue; -ella = diminutive; referring to the blue flowers in some species, although some species have white, pink and purple flowers.
Cymbopogon plurinodis
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Cyphia
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Gk. kyphos = bent; referring to the shape of the style and stigma.
Cyphia digitata
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From the Latin digitatus = ‘equipped with fingers’ or 'finger-like'
Cyphia sylvatica
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From the Latin sylvaticus = ‘pertaining to woodland’
Cyphia volubilis
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From the Latin volubilis = ‘twisting’ or 'winding'; generally referring to a creeper
Delosperma
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Gk. delos = visible, open, transparent; sperma = seed; referring to seeds that are easily visible as they are in an unenclosed chamber of the capsule which has no covering membrane.
Deverra denudata
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From the Latin ‘nuda’ / ‘nudus’ meaning ‘bare’
Dianthus basuticus
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From Lesotho, previously known as Basutoland that was a British Crown colony that existed from 1884 to 1966