Kouebokkeveld
Characterised by cold in the evening but hot at night, the Kouebokkeveld is a broad region that lies to the north of Ceres with the Skurweberg range along its west side and extending inland from there.
Nodes
Lotus subbiflorus
APIACEAE
Arctotis undulata
Aspalathus lanifera
Aspalathus brevicarpa
Bobartia
Untitled
Disa filicornis
Moraea unguiculata
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Taxonomy term
Agathosma
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Gk. agathos = good; osmē = smell, odour; referring to fragrant oils in the glands of the leaves.
APIACEAE
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Named after the genus Apium including Apium graveolens - celery.
Arctotis sp
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Arctotis verbascifolia
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Aspalathus
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From aspalathos, a scented bush that grew in Greece, now in the related genus Astragalus.
Athanasia
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Name from the Greek a, negative, and thanatos, death, in allusion to the persistent dry involucral bracts.
Bobartia
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For Jacob Bobart (1599–1680), German botanist and the first horti praefectus (superintendent, head gardener) of the Oxford Physic Garden; which cultivated medical herbs; the first garden of its kind in England. He was the author of Catalogus Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis, sci Latino-Anglicus et Anglico-Latinus (1648); a catalogue of 1600 plants that were in the garden. His son, Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641–1719), succeeded his father as horti praefectus and became acting professor of botany at Oxford.
Bolandia
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Afrikaans boland = lit. ‘up country’. A region in the Western Cape.
Campanulaceae
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From the Latin campanula, little bell; "bell-flower".
Centella
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Gk. kentron = a spur or sharp point; -ella = diminutive; probably alluding to the small, pointed styles.
Chamarea
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Gk. chamai = growing on the ground. Possibly this is from the Khoisan name chamare (Adamson), a kind of umbellifera.
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.
Coelanthum
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Gk. koilos = hollow; anthos = flower. The calyx is bell- or funnel-shaped.
Conophytum obcordellum
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