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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Ursinia dentata
Cephalaria scabra
Otholobium parviflorum
Anthospermum
Cliffortia filicaulis
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Brunia
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Taxonomy term
Nevillea
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For Neville Stuart Pillans (1884–1964), South African botanist who assisted Professor Henry Harold Welch Pearson (1870–1960) in selecting the Kirstenbosch site for the future National Botanical Garden, son of Charles Eustace Pillans (1850–1919). He spent two years at Cambridge University studying agriculture but had to give it up because of ill health. After various jobs he joined the Bolus Herbarium, where he remained until his retirement and even worked there afterward. As a schoolboy he grew indigenous plants, especially succulents, and was ‘the most eminent collector of Stapeliads in the eventful history of the tribe’ (White & Sloane). He devoted himself to the taxonomy of Restionaceae, Bruniaceae, Phyllica, Agathosma and Metalasia.
Nivenia
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For James Niven (1776–1827), Scottish gardener at the Royal Botanical Garden of Edinburgh and at Syon House, Middlesex. He collected plants in South Africa from 1798–1803 for his patron, George Hibbert, in Clapham, London. Three months after his return to England he went back to the Cape as botanical collector for Empress Josephine of France and James Lee and John Kennedy of the Vineyard Nursery, Hammersmith, near London. He spent a further nine years at the Cape collecting herbarium specimens, seeds and bulbs but also visiting areas such as Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape to Clanwilliam northwest of Cape Town, returning to England in 1812 and setting up his own business, unrelated to botany.
Osmitopsis
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Osmites (q.v.); Gk. -opsis = resembling.
Pentameris
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Gk. penta- = five; meros = a part; referring to the five-awned lemma.
Pentameris longiglumis
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From the Latin longi = 'long' and gluma = a 'husk'
Phylica
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Gk. phyllikos = leafy; referring to the plentiful foliage.
Platycaulos
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Gk. platys = broad, flat; caulos = stem; referring to the large round culms typical of this species (Plantzafrica.com).
Podalyria
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For Podalirius (La.), from Podaleirios (Gk.), son of Asklepios, god of healing. He and his brother, Machaon were physicians to the Greek army during the Trojan wars, as described in the Iliad. The brothers’ great feat was the healing of the festering foot of Philoctetes, who was badly needed for his arrows, but whose fetid stench sorely disturbed the warriors. The flowers of this genus are strongly fragrant but not unpleasantly so, rather sweet-smelling.
Protea
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Gk. After Proteus, a mythological sea-god, who could change his form at will, taking new shapes. Seemingly Linnaeus was so over-awed by the variety of plants sent to him from the Cape that he named the genus Protea. The authors could not confirm this.
Psoralea
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Gk. psoraleos = scabby. The plants are covered with rough warty-looking glandular dots.
Psoralea fulcrata
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Rafnia
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For Carl (Karl) Gottlob Rafn (1769–1808), Danish civil servant, botanist and science writer. He studied medicine and botany at the University of Copenhagen in 1788, and later veterinary science, but did not take the exams. He had a range of jobs such as an agriculture assessor and director of a distillery, but his main interests were natural history and science. He authored or co-authored a range of publications, including the Flora of Denmarks and Holstein, a book on plant physiology (1798), a paper on animal hibernation with JD Herholdt, and a book on life-saving measures for drowning persons. He became a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences in 1798.
Restio
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La. restis = rope, cord-like; referring to a common use for the plant. Restios is known to have been used for rope.
Roella dregeana
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Commemorates the brothers Carl Friedrich Drege (1791-1867) and Johann Franz Drege (1794-1881) of Huguenot ancestry. Prodigious botanists and plant collectors in the Cape.’