Untitled
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
11/05/2009 - 5:43pm
Collection:
West Coast National Park
The WCNP is the final bastian for many of the previously widespread lowland strandveld and sandveld vegetation. It is only open to the public in the spring season when there is typically stunning mass displays of flowers.
Is private:
Public
Nodes
Limonium acuminatum
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
24/08/2015 - 4:16pm
Collection:
Untitled
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
24/08/2015 - 4:12pm
Collection:
Untitled
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
24/08/2015 - 4:09pm
Collection:
Untitled
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
24/08/2015 - 3:51pm
Collection:
Untitled
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
24/08/2015 - 3:22pm
Collection:
Untitled
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
24/08/2015 - 3:04pm
Collection:
Cysticapnos
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
24/08/2015 - 2:54pm
Collection:
Untitled
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
24/08/2015 - 2:46pm
Collection:
Untitled
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
24/08/2015 - 2:43pm
Collection:
Taxonomy term
G
Cysticapnos
NE
4
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Short etymology:
Gk. kystis = bladder; kapnos = smoke, smoky; referring to the distinctively inflated, bladder-like fruit, dangling – like lanterns. The fruit in bud can look smoky pink-grey.
G
Indigofera
NE
4
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Short etymology:
Indigo is derived from the La. indicus, Gk. indikos, referring to India; La. ferax = bearing. Indigo is blue dye (cf I. tinctoria).
S
Oxalis hirta
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Short etymology:
From the Latin hirtus = 'hairy' and flora = 'flower'
Description:
Softly hairy, caulescent geophyte with leafy stem, often branching, 5--30 cm, bulb scales unprotected. Leaves trifoliolate, grey-green, subsessile with scale-like petioles, leaflets linear-obovate, hairy beneath. Flowers mauve, magenta or white with occ. elongate yellow tube. Apr.--June. Flats and lower slopes, 50--300 m, NW, SW (Bokkeveld Mts to Cape Peninsula).G
Ruschia
NE
2
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Short etymology:
For Ernst Julius Rusch (1867–1957), Namibian farmer, businessman and plant collector. He came to South-West Africa (Namibia) in 1890, where he grew succulent plants and later established a nursery at Lichtenstein, near Windhoek, Namibia. He and his son Ernst Franz Rusch Jnr (1897–1964) made many collecting trips together. He was one of the founders of Windhoek, and was given freedom of the city on his 60th birthday.
S
Tripteris calcicola
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Short etymology:
From the Latin calcicolus = 'chalk-loving' or 'limestone-loving'
