Overberg Region
The southernmost portion of Africa, south of the Langeberg mountains and east of the Hottentots Holland Mountains, and west of the Garden Route. It is a highly transformed landscape with only remnants of renosterveld (<4%) remaining.
Nodes
Ceratandra atrata
Satyrium bicorne
Holothrix mundii
Holothrix mundii
Satyrium odorum
Pterygodium caffrum
Satyrium
Corycium excisum
Ceratandra atrata
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Taxonomy term
Lachenalia unifolia
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Means having a single leaf
Lachenalia unifolia
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Means having a single leaf
Lachenalia unifolia
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Means having a single leaf
Lachnaea
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Gk. lachne = woolly hair; alluding to the downy calyx.
Lampranthus
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Gk. lampros = bright, shining; anthos = flower; referring to the light reflecting off the glossy petals.
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.
Lessertia frutescens
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'shrub-like' from the Latin frutescens meaning ‘producing shoots’
Leucadendron
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Gk. leukos = white; dendron = tree; referring to commonly called ‘witteboom’ or ‘silver tree’.
Leucospermum
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Gk. leukos = white; sperma = seed. The tree has white seeds.
Limonium scabrum
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From the Latin scabo meaning 'to scratch' meaning 'rough'
Linum
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Gk. linon = flax, name used by Theophrastus, successor to Aristotle in the Paripatetic School in Athens (372–287 BCE). Possibly Celtic lin = thread, used from making fabric.
Lobelia
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For Mathias de L’Obel (Lobel, Lobelius) (1538–1616), Flemish botanist, traveller, plant collector. He studied medicine in Leuven and Montpellier and practised medicine from 1571–1581 in Antwerp and Delft, where he was physician to William, Prince of Orange. In 1584 he left the Netherlands for England to escape the civil war and never returned. He became physician to King James I of England and also the king’s botanist. His major work, written in collaboration with Pierre Pena, was Stirpium Adversaria Nova (1571), which describes some 1 500 species in the vicinity of Montpellier, also of Tyrol, Switzerland and the Netherlands. A second volume, Plantarum Historia Stirpium, was published in 1576 with more than 2 000 illustrations, and a further work, Icones Stirpium, seu, Plantarum Tam Exoticarum in 1591.
Lobelia jasionoides
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Lobostemon
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Gk. lobos = lobe; stemon = thread, stamen; referring to the filaments being opposite the corolla lobes.