Langeberg Mountains
Long chain of mainly east-west lying mountains mostly separating the Agulhas plains and Southern Cape in the south, from the Klein Karoo to the north. There are a number of endemic species of which the endemic family Peneaceae is particularly well represented.
Nodes
Erica
Cussonia
Penaea mucronata
Agathosma
Zygophyllum
Erica
Polygala
Scrophulariaceae
Nivenia
Pages
Taxonomy term
Agathosma
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Gk. agathos = good; osmē = smell, odour; referring to fragrant oils in the glands of the leaves.
Agathosma
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Gk. agathos = good; osmē = smell, odour; referring to fragrant oils in the glands of the leaves.
Asteraceae
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Named after the genus Aster. The name Aster comes from the Ancient Greek word ἀστήρ (astḗr), meaning "star", referring to the shape of the flower head.
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.
Buddleja
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For Adam Buddle (1660–1715), English amateur botanist, vicar of Farnham, Essex, and collector of British plants. He was educated at Cambridge University, obtaining a BA degree in 1681 and an MA degree in 1685 and was ordained into the Church of England in 1703. Further details of his life are obscure. He is credited with creating Britain’s first herbarium and he compiled a new English flora, completed in 1708, but it was never published; the original manuscript is preserved at the Natural History Museum, London. He established a reputation as an authority on bryophytes.
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.
Crassula
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La. crassus = thick; -ula = diminutive; referring to the fleshy succulent leaves.
Crassula
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La. crassus = thick; -ula = diminutive; referring to the fleshy succulent leaves.
Crassula
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La. crassus = thick; -ula = diminutive; referring to the fleshy succulent leaves.