Outeniqua
The Outeniqua Mountains, named after the Outeniqua Khoikhoi who lived there, is a mountain range that runs a parallel to the southern coast of South Africa, and forms a continuous range with the Langeberg to the west and the Tsitsikamma Mountains to the east. It was known as "Serra de Estrella" ("Mountain of the Star") to the Portuguese.[1] The mountains are part of the Garden Route of South Africa.
"Outeniqua" is said to be derived from a Khoikhoi tribe that once lived in the mountains, and means "they who bear honey". Rock paintings by those people can still be found in the area.
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Taxonomy term
Adromischus
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Gk. adros = thick; miskhos = a stalk; referring to the thick stalks of the species.
Agathosma
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Gk. agathos = good; osmē = smell, odour; referring to fragrant oils in the glands of the leaves.
Chondropetalum
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Gk. chondros = grain, corn, cartilage; petalum = petal. The flowers, while small, are abundant.
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).
Grubbia rosmarinifolia
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Hermannia
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For Paul Hermann (1646–1695), German-born Dutch physician and botanist. He graduated in medicine at the universities of Leiden and Padua, became a ship’s medical officer (1672–1677) for the Dutch East India Company and went to Sri Lanka via the Cape, where he made the first known herbarium collection of local plants, now housed in the Sloane Herbarium, British Museum of Natural History and at Oxford. In 1679 he became professor of botany at the University of Leiden and director of the Hortus Botanicus in Leiden, Europe’s finest botanical garden. His 1687 publication Horti Academici Lugduno-Batavi Catalogus includes 34 Cape plants, and his proposed Prodomus Plantaerum Africanarum was to contain 791 items, but untimely death intervened.
Ledebouria
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After Carl Friedrich van Ledebour (1785-1851), German professor of botany at Dorpat, worked in several European countries, wrote Flora Rossica.
Limeum
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Ancient classical name for a poisonous plant, Gk. loimos = a plague, pestilence. ‘These small weeds are acrid poisons’ (Bonder, Flora Capensis).
Nanobubon
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Gk. nano = dwarf; bubon = swollen gland; alludes to the similarity to Notobubon and the difference in habit, hence the Greek prefix nano (AR Magee).
Penaea cneorum
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Named after the genus Cneorum, the spurge olive (Rutaceae) from the Western Mediterranean (C. tricoccon) and Canary Islands (C. pulverulentum). It has yellow flowers in four-parts and fruit in three-parts.
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 aurea
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From the Latin aureus = 'golden', typically referring to the flower colour.