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.
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Leucospermum bolusii
Lachenalia
Drosera
Drimiopsis maxima
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Taxonomy term
Cliffortia filicaulis
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From the Latin fili = 'thread-like' and caulis = 'stem'; referring to a thin stem
Coleonema
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Gk. koleos = a sheath; nema = a thread; alluding to the filaments of the sterile stamens (staminoides) enfolded in the channel of petals.
Diastella
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Gk. diastellein = to separate or expand; referring to the deeply divided perianth segments.
Disa
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Origin obscure. Börge Pettison believes the plant was named after Queen Disa who occurs in a Swedish legendary saga. The author, Peter Jonas Bergius, was a Swedish botanist.
Disperis capensis
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From the Cape Province of South Africa, previously known as the Cape Colony. -ensis is a Latin adjectival suffix meaning “pertaining to or “originating in,” Thus these organisms were first discovered in the Cape. In the early days of exploration this epithet was frequently applied to anywhere in South Africa or even Southern Africa
Drosera
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Gk. droseros = dewy; alluding to the dewy glistening leaf-glands.
Ehrharta rupestris subsp. tricostata
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Elegia
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Gk. elegeia, elegia = song of lamentation; possibly referring to the sound restios make while they are moving in the breeze.
Elytropappus longifolius
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From the Latin longus = "long" and folium = "leaf", referring to the long leaves
Empleurum
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Gk. em- = in; pleuron, pleura = membrane; referring to ‘the seeds (which are) contained within the membranous inner hull of the ripe capsule’ (Sonder, Flora Capensis).
Erica
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Gk. ereike = to break. The name used for a heath by Theophrastus (372–287 BCE) and Pliny the Elder. The stems are brittle and break easily (Lindsay); or possibly but less likely because of the ability of the plant to break up bladder stones (Paxton’s Botanical Dictionary).
Erica filiformis
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From the Latin fili / filum meaning ‘thread’; and the Latin formis / formis meaning ‘in the form of’.
Erica gysbertii
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Named after Gysbert Grisbrook, a relative of Professor Francis Guthrie, who discovered the species
Erica viscaria
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From the Latin ‘viscaria’ / ‘viscarius’ meaning ‘resembling mistletoe?????’