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
Monopsis unidentata
Felicia filifolia subsp. bodkinii
Kleinia repens
Osteospermum scariosum
Erica longimontana
Helichrysum litorale
Melianthus comosus
Euphorbia
Hermannia trifoliata
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Taxonomy term
Hebenstretia cordata
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From the Latin cordatus = ‘heart-shaped’; usually referring to the leaf shape
Helichrysum chlorochrysum
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Latin, from Greek helikhrusos, from helix ‘spiral’ + khrusos ‘gold’. It originally denoted a yellow-flowered plant, possibly Helichrysum stoechas .
Helichrysum cochleariforme
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Helichrysum niveum
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From the Latin niveus = ‘snowy’; referring to a "snowy" coating on the vegatative parts
Helichrysum paniculatum
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From the Latin paniculatus meaning 'tufted' or a 'panicle' referring to the form of the inflorescence
Helichrysum rutilans
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From the Latin rutilans = 'reddish', 'reddish-glow', 'reddish-yellow' or 'golden-red'
Hermannia cuneifolia
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From the Latin cuneus = 'wedge' and folius = 'leaf'; referring to the shape of the leaf with a narrow base and wide apex
Roughly scaly, twiggy shrub to 1 m. Leaves cuneate, coarsely toothed above, sometimes appearing fascicled. Flowers on subsecund racemes, yellow often fading reddish. Mainly Aug.--Oct. Clay and granitic slopes, NW, SW, KM, AP, LB, SE (Namaqualand to E Cape and Lesotho).
Hermannia cuneifolia var. cuneifolia
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From the Latin cuneus = 'wedge' and folius = 'leaf'; referring to the shape of the leaf with a narrow base and wide apex