Otholobium bracteolatum
Name of observer:
Observer unknown (David)
Date observed:
04/12/2016 - 4:26pm
Collection:
Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve and adjacent lowlands and farmland
This area has the highest plant diversity in both the Cape Floristic Region and the of any mediterranean flora in the world. The boundaries are here considered as the Cape Flats and False Bay to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the south, to the Bot River to the east, and the N2 road to the north.
Is private:
Public
Nodes
Rutaceae
Name of observer:
Observer unknown (David)
Date observed:
04/12/2016 - 4:24pm
Collection:
Lessertia frutescens
Name of observer:
Observer unknown (David)
Date observed:
04/12/2016 - 4:15pm
Collection:
Untitled
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
29/09/2019 - 12:22pm
Collection:
Untitled
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
29/09/2019 - 9:26am
Collection:
Untitled
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
29/09/2019 - 8:54am
Collection:
Untitled
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
29/09/2019 - 12:25pm
Collection:
Untitled
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
29/09/2019 - 12:21pm
Collection:
Untitled
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
29/09/2019 - 12:19pm
Collection:
Untitled
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
29/09/2019 - 12:16pm
Collection:
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Taxonomy term
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Aloe
NE
2
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Short etymology:
Gk. aloē (from earlier Semitic word alloeh) = bitter. The liquid or dried juice found in the leaves is bitter.
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Anaxeton asperum
2
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Short etymology:
From the Latin asper = 'rough'
Description:
Grey-woolly, softly woody shrublet to 30 cm. Leaves linear, often recurved and green above, margins revolute. Flower heads discoid, small, many in dense rounded clusters on elongate peduncles, yellow, bracts white and brown. Mainly Aug.--Dec. Sandstone slopes, SW, AP (Bainskloof to Bredasdorp).G
Anthospermum
NE
20
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Short etymology:
Gk. anthos = flower; spermum = seed. Although the flowers are usually dioecious – unisexual, male and female – ‘male’ flowers sometimes have ovaries capable of ripening seed.
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Apodytes
NE
8
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Short etymology:
Gk. apoduein = to strip off; referring to the tiny sepals which cover nothing leaving the corolla uncovered.
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Arctotis
NE
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Short etymology:
Gk. arkto- = brown bear; -otis = an ear. The bear-like ears have been linked, variously, to the earlike pappus scales, outer involucral bracts or the shaggy fruit.
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Athanasia
NE
1
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Short etymology:
Name from the Greek a, negative, and thanatos, death, in allusion to the persistent dry involucral bracts.
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Aulax
NE
3
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Short etymology:
From the Greek aulax, a furrow, for doubtful reasons. The leaves of A. cancellata are inconspicuously channelled, while some of the floral parts are microscopically grooved.
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Berzelia stokoei
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Short etymology:
Named in honour of T. P. Stokoe (1868-1959), one of the most famous Mountain Club of South Africa members. A comprehensive eponymous biography is written by Peter Slingsby.
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Bobartia gladiata
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Short etymology:
From the Latin ‘gladiata’ / ‘gladiatus’ meaning ‘sword-like’
Description:
Rhizomatous perennial, 20--80 cm, stems usually flat. Leaves linear, elliptic in section. Flowers in a flattened inflorescence of 3--12 cymes, yellow. Sept.--Dec. Mountain slopes and coastal flats, in fynbos, SW (Cape Peninsula and Bainskloof to Hermanus).G
Brunia
NE
12
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Short etymology:
For Alexander Brown (f 1692–1698), a naval surgeon and plant collector who worked for the East India Company around 1690 and collected in India, the Cape, Spain and Arabia, etc. sending specimens to Plukenet (1641–1706), an English botanist, royal professor of botany and gardener to Queen Mary; James Petiver (c 1665–1718) a London apothecary; Jacob Bobart (c 1665–1718) in Oxford and to Charles du Bois (1656–1740), an English merchant and botanist, treasurer of the East India Company. He amassed a vast herbarium of East Indian plants. No further details are known.
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Brunia microphylla
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Short etymology:
From the Greek mikros = ‘small’ and phyllon = ‘leaf’.
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Bulbine
NE
20
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Short etymology:
La. bulbus = an onion or bulb. A misnomer in that the plants do not have a bulbous base.
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Capelio
NE
3
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Short etymology:
Capelio = an anagram for Alciope.
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Cliffortia
NE
20
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Short etymology:
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.
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