Boskloof Farm and Nature Reserve
Situated on the rim of the Kleinriver Catchment, Boskloof on a mountain range offset from the well documented Kleinrivier mountains. Owned by renowned Erica specialist Thys de Villiers it boasts several endemic species including an endemic Proteaceae, one of the most recent finds. It is immediately adjacent to Salmonsdam Nature Reserve.
Nodes
Erica plena
Witsenia maura
Podalyria myrtillifolia
Gnidia
Euryops linearis
Nebelia
Erica bodkinii
Erica melastoma
Euryops linearis
Pages
Taxonomy term
Leucospermum
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Gk. leukos = white; sperma = seed. The tree has white seeds.
Lobelia
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For Mathias de L’Obel (Lobel, Lobelius) (1538–1616), Flemish botanist, traveller, plant collector. He studied medicine in Leuven and Montpellier and practised medicine from 1571–1581 in Antwerp and Delft, where he was physician to William, Prince of Orange. In 1584 he left the Netherlands for England to escape the civil war and never returned. He became physician to King James I of England and also the king’s botanist. His major work, written in collaboration with Pierre Pena, was Stirpium Adversaria Nova (1571), which describes some 1 500 species in the vicinity of Montpellier, also of Tyrol, Switzerland and the Netherlands. A second volume, Plantarum Historia Stirpium, was published in 1576 with more than 2 000 illustrations, and a further work, Icones Stirpium, seu, Plantarum Tam Exoticarum in 1591.
Lotononis
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Combination of the two generic names Lotus and Ononis, both of which are legumes.
Mimetes
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Gk. mimetes = imitator, mimic. Possibly given this name because some of its features, like the toothed leaves, bear a close resemblance to other family members, like Leucospermum, better known as pincushion. The genus itself is distinctive.
Mimetes cucullata
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From the Latin cucullatus = ‘hooded’
Mimetes cucullatus
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From the Latin cucullatus = ‘hooded’
Nebelia
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For Daniel Nebel (1663–1733) who studied medicine at the University of Marburg, obtaining his PhD in 1686 and becoming a full professor in the medical faculty in 1707. From 1708–1728 he worked as a doctor and apothecary at the Heidelberg hospital and Sapienzkolleg and from 1728 exclusive personal physician of Elector Carl Philip at his court in Mannheim. Also for Nebel’s son William Bernhard Nebel (1699–1748), physician and botanist, professor of mathematics, physics and medicine at Heidelberg. Daniel Nebel, in particular, was a prolific author both in the fields of botany and medicine, and a considerable amount of his work was published posthumously.
Serruria elongata
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From the Latin elongatus = ‘elongated’
Struthiola
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Gk. strouthos = a starling. The seeds are pointed like a starling’s beak (Hugh Glen). Alternately, Gk. strouthion = a small bird, sparrow (dim. of strouthos = ostrich). Perhaps the seed resembles a sparrow’s beak (WPU Jackson).