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.
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Crassula rupestris
Euclea
Fabaceae
Fabaceae
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Agathosma
Bruniaceae
Asteraceae
Crassula subulata
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Taxonomy term
Crassula
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La. crassus = thick; -ula = diminutive; referring to the fleshy succulent leaves.
Cussonia
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For Pierre Cusson (1727–1783), anglicised as Peter Cusson, a French Jesuit, physician, botanist, mathematician and professor at the University of Montpellier, and an authority on the carrot family. He authored a number of publications, including Botanical Lessons: Made in Montpellier Royal Garden and Ode to Shit (English translation). He had travelled extensively throughout Majorca, Spain and the Pyrenees, and amassed an excellent collection of specimens, which were regrettably disposed of by an elderly female relative with whom he lived, who cleaned his study in his absence.
Diosma
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Gk. dios = divine; osme = fragrance; referring to the fragrant leaves, especially when crushed.
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).
Euclea
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Gk. eukleia = fame, glory, from eu- = good; kleos = report; perhaps referring to the good quality ebony-type wood of some species or its beautiful evergreen foliage.
FABACEAE
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Faba, Latin, a bean.
FABACEAE
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Faba, Latin, a bean.
Grubbia
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For Michael (Mikael) Grubb (af Grubbens) (1728–1808), Swedish botanist, mineralogist, merchant, botanical collector. He graduated with a PhD from Åbo Academy (later Helsinki University) (1748) and worked in Guangzhou, Canton (1749–1755), founding a branch there of the Swedish East India Company. He visited the Cape in 1764 and collected specimens, many bought from Johann Andreas Auge (q.v. Augea) and others, which he presented to Peter Jonas Bergius (1730–1790). This collection formed the basis of Bergius’s Descriptiones Plantarum ex Capita Bonae Spei Plantae Capenses (1767), a flora of the Cape Province. He became a director of the Swedish East India Company (1766–1769) and was elected a member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences in 1767 and knighted in 1768, when he took the name Af Grubbens.
Haworthia
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For Adrian Hardy Haworth (1768–1833), English botanist, entomologist, carcinologist and an authority on succulents and lepidoptera. He did pioneering work in North America, Canada and Mexico focusing on cacti, and published Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum (1819) with subsequent supplements. In England he collected and studied butterflies, publishing Lepidoptera Britannica (1803–1828). During his life he amassed a collection of over 40 000 insects. He was a Fellow of the Linnaean and Royal Horticultural societies and a friend of Sir Joseph Banks. In 1833 he lent support to the founding of what was to become the Royal Entomological Society of London.
Helichrysum
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Gk. (h)elios = sun; chrysos = gold; referring to the bright yellow flowerheads of many of the flowers of species in this genus.
Helipterum
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Gk. (h)elios = sun; pteron = wing, feather; referring to the plumed and feathery pappus.
Ifloga
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Anagram of the related genus Filago.
Indigofera
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Indigo is derived from the La. indicus, Gk. indikos, referring to India; La. ferax = bearing. Indigo is blue dye (cf I. tinctoria).
Lobelia pubescens
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From the Latin pubescens meaning ‘downy’ with short soft hairs
Myrica
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Gk. myrike = fragrance; also murikē (myrike) meaning a Tamarisk (= a family of mainly Old World desert shrubs and trees); referring to the plant’s aromatic leaves in many species.