Argyrolobium splendens
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
05/01/2009 - 3:14pm
Collection:
Babilonstoring
Babilonstoring is a peak within Overberg and is nearby to Babilonstoringberge, Highlands Forest Reserve and Paardepoort Staatsbos. Babilonstoring has an elevation of 1,149 metres. (https://mapcarta.com/19086294)
Is private:
Public
Nodes
Euryops lasiocladus
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
31/12/2008 - 6:09pm
Collection:
Untitled
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
31/12/2008 - 5:59pm
Collection:
Untitled
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
31/12/2008 - 5:32pm
Collection:
Psoralea
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
31/12/2008 - 5:17pm
Collection:
Berzelia incurva
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
31/12/2008 - 5:15pm
Collection:
Witsenia maura
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
31/12/2008 - 4:49pm
Collection:
Watsonia zeyheri
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
31/12/2008 - 4:46pm
Collection:
Aulax
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
31/12/2008 - 4:37pm
Collection:
Erica
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
31/12/2008 - 3:44pm
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Taxonomy term
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Aulax
NE
3
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Short etymology:
From the Greek aulax, a furrow, for doubtful reasons. The leaves of A. cancellata are inconspicuously channelled, while some of the floral parts are microscopically grooved.
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Erica
NE
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Short etymology:
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).
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Merciera tenuifolia
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Short etymology:
From the Latin tenuis = ‘thin' or 'fine' or 'slender’ and the Latin folius = ‘leaf’
Description:
Rigid closely leafy shrublet to 30 cm. Leaves imbricate, stiffly linear, pungent, shortly hairy, the margins lightly revolute and harshly ciliate, but the axillary leaves glabrous. Flowers subsessile in the upper axils, blue to purple, tube slender, 10--25 mm long, petals elliptic-lanceolate, much shorter than the tube. Dec.--Mar. Sandstone slopes, SW (Franschhoek to Kleinrivier Mts and Caledon Swartberg).G
Psoralea
NE
2
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Short etymology:
Gk. psoraleos = scabby. The plants are covered with rough warty-looking glandular dots.
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Witsenia
NE
1
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Short etymology:
For Nicolaas (Nicolaes) Witsen (1641–1717), Dutch patron of botany. He studied law, philosophy and languages at Leiden University, became a proficient cartographer, wrote a standard work on ship-building in 1671, and made the first map of Siberia in 1690. He became mayor of Amsterdam and director of the Dutch East India Company. A prolific collector, his South African collection, Codex Witsenii, of early Cape botanical and zoological paintings and manuscripts relating to the fauna, flora and landscapes was estimated, by Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738), professor of botany at Leiden, to contain more than 1 500 paintings of plants. Witsen was a supporter of Carl Peter Thunberg, who visited South Africa and collected more than 3 000 previously unknown species.
