Southern Cape
An intermediate summer-winter rainfall area of South Africa sandwiched between the Langeberg mountains and the sea. It arguably includes portions of the Klein Karoo, but we exclude this area and extend the area east to Port Elizabeth and west to Swellendam.
Nodes
Halleria lucida
Lobelia neglecta
Euphorbia artifolia
Hermannia joubertiana
Nemesia affinis
Erica articularis
Geissoloma marginatum
Lightfootia rubens
Erica versicolor
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Taxonomy term
Felicia ovata
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From the Latin ovatus = ‘egg-shaped’
Frankenia repens
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From the Latin repens = ‘creeping’
Galium tomentosum
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From the Latin tomentosus = 'densely woolly'
Gazania
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Gk. gaze, gaza = riches, royal treasure; chloe = grass; or possibly after Theodorus Gaza (many spellings of this name) (1398–1478), a Greek scholar who moved to Italy in 1430. He became professor in Greek at the University of Ferrara (1447) and a Greek-Latin translator for Pope Nicholas V (1450–1455). He worked for King Alfonso V of Aragon (Alphonso the Magnanimous) (1456–1458) and subsequently for Cardinal Bessarion. He translated many works including Aristotle’s Problemata, De Partibus Animalium, and De Generatione Animalium and Theophrastus’ Historia Plantarum, works by noted Greek authors, and a Greek grammar (four books). He is regarded as one of the greatest classical scholars and humanists of the Renaissance.
Gazania ciliaris
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From the Latin ciliaris = ‘relating to the eyelash or fine hairs’
Gazania maritima
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From the Latin mari = 'the sea': maratimus = 'of or occurring near the sea'
Gerbera
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For Traugott Gerber (1710–1743), German medical doctor, naturalist and explorer. He registered as a medical student at the University of Leipzig in 1730 and obtained a doctorate for his thesis, De Thoracibus, in 1735. Between 1739 and 1741 he led several expeditions on the Don and Volga rivers to search for medicinal plants and herbs and served as curator of the oldest (medical-pharmaceutical) botanical garden in Moscow from 1735–1742. He served in the Russian army in Finland in 1742. He was the author of Dissertationem Physicam de Plantarum Transpiratione and was a close friend of Swedish botanist Linnaeus, who published the genus Gerbera in 1758. Some sources also include his brother Fr. Gerber, who collected plants in the West Indies, in the commemoration.
Gnidia oppositifolia
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From the Latin oppositus = 'opposite' and folius = 'leaf'; the leaves are opposite
Gnidia setosa
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From the Latin seta = silk, setosus meaning ‘bristly’
Gorteria personata subsp. gracilis
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From the Latin gracilis meaning ‘graceful’
Hartogiella schinoides
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From the Greek ‘schin’ / ‘schinos’ meaning ‘pepper-tree’; and the Greek ‘oides’ / ‘oides’ meaning ‘in the form of’.
Haworthia cooperi
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Named in honour of English botanist Thomas Cooper (1815-1913). He collected many plants in the Drakensberg mountains
Haworthia viscosa
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From the Latin viscosus = ‘sticky’
Caulescent or acaulescent succulent, forming clumps. Leaves brownish, trifarious, recurved and pungent. Flowers white. Oct.--Nov. Rocky karroid slopes, KM, LB (Little Karoo to Baviaanskloof Mts, E Cape and Karoo).