Baviaanskloof and Baviaansberg
Straddling the Eastern Cape and the Western Cape, the Baviaansberg is known for having elements of both the western CFR and the Eastern Cape.
Nodes
Chlorophytum
Gasteria rawlinsonii
Euphorbia
Tromotriche
Athanasia vestita
Potamogeton
Nemesia deflexa
Tritonia linearifolia
Drimia anomala
Taxonomy term
Chlorophytum
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Gk. chloros = yellow-green; phyton = a plant; referring to the green colour of the leaves and the flowers.
Euphorbia
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Gk. eu- = well; phorbe = pasture or fodder; probably after Euphorbus, Greek physician to Juba II, King of Mauretania. Juba was educated in Rome and married the daughter of Antony and Cleopatra. He was apparently interested in botany and had written about an African cactus-like plant from the slopes of Mount Atlas, which he had found or knew about, which was used as a powerful laxative. That plant may have been Euphorbia resinifera, and like all Euphorbias had a latexy exudate (milky emulsion from certain plants). Euphorbus had a brother named Antonius Musa who was the physician to Augustus Caesar in Rome. When Juba heard that Caesar had honoured his physician with a statue, he decided to honour his own physician by naming the plant he had written about after him.
Hilliardiella
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Hilliardia (q.v.); Gk. -iella = diminutive.
Hilliardiella pinifolia
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From the Latin folia = 'leaf'; i.e. leaves like Pinus, a pine
Potamogeton
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Gk. potomos = river; geiton= neighbour; referring to the habitat in which these plants occur.
Senecio
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La. senex = an old man. The white, hairy pappus of the seeds is reminiscent of an old man’s beard.
Tritonia linearifolia
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From the Latin 'linea' meaning line and 'folia' meaning leaf, implies straight narrow line-like leaves
Tromotriche
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Gk. tromos = trembling; trichos = hair, hairy; referring to the vibratile corolla hairs.