Bushmans Kloof Wilderness Reserve
This is a nature reserve nestled in the foothills of the Cederberg Mountains. Their "ecological oasis provides a magical wilderness experience among open plains, sandstone formations and ancient bush art sites dating back 10,000 years". There are 130 San rockart sites, 150 birds, 750 plant and 35 mammal species recorded from this area declared a Natural Heritage site.
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Mesembryanthemaceae
Lachenalia
Othonna
Utricularia
Haworthia
Othonna
Lachenalia
Moraea
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Taxonomy term
Maytenus
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From the Chilean vernacular name maitén or mayten, derived from the Mapuche Indian name mantun, the local name for the species. The Mapuche are one of three surviving tribes of the ancient Araucanian linguistic group of Indians who lived in Chile and Argentina before the Incas or the Spaniards arrived.
Moraea
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Linnaeus married Sara Elisabeth Moraea; her father was Dr. Johan Moraeus, the town physician of Falun. The name "Morea" was originally given by Philip Miller after "Robert More of Shropshire", but was taken over by Linnaeus and changed to Moraea.
Ornithogalum
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Gk. ornithos = bird; gala = milk, presumably referring to the colostrum-like, high fat secretions produced by the Colombidae (‘pigeon’s milk’) and stored in the crop for feeding the young. Maybe this somewhat resembles the gooey sap that exudes from the cut stems. Some authors suggest that the name merely refers to the milky whiteness of some flowers, while ‘bird’s milk’ to the ancient Greeks was a colloquial expression for something wonderful.
Oscularia
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La. osculum = small mouth; aria = possessing; from the fanciful likeness of the toothed leaves.
Osteospermum
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Gk. osteon = bone; sperma = seed. The achenes are bone-hard.
Othonna
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Name derived from the Greek othone, a linen cloth or napkin, in allusion to the downy covering of some of the earlier known species. Doria Less. is not regarded as separable.
Pelargonium
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Gk. pelargos = a stork; referring to the beak of the fruit which resembles a stork’s bill (cf Geranium, Erodium).
Podocarpus
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Gk. podos = foot; karpos = fruit; referring to the fleshy ‘foot’, the receptacle, on which the fruit of some species develops (Plantzafrica.com).
Prismatocarpus
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Gk. prisma = a thin saw, hence angular; karpos = fruit. The slender inferior ovary becomes greatly elongated; the fruits are shaped like prisms.
Pteronia
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Gk. pteron = a wing; probably referring to seeds which are wind-dispersed.
Rhus
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Gk. rhous, from rhodos = red (the word can be traced back for centuries); referring to the fruits or autumn leaves of some species.
Sebaea
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For Albertus Seba (1665–1736), Dutch pharmacist, zoologist and naturalist. In 1700, he opened an ‘apothecary shop’ in Amsterdam and collected exotic plants and animal products from sailors and ship surgeons from which he could make ‘medicines’. In 1716, he sold his first collection (as well as the Dutch botanist Frederik Ruysch’s collection) to the Russian Tsar, Peter the Great, on his visit to the Netherlands. Seba immediately set about building an even larger collection. In 1734, he published his magnificently illustrated four-volume Thesaurus (1734, 1735), with 446 plates (2 volumes published posthumously), which displays marine animals, insects and reptiles. Linnaeus must have seen this collection when he visited Seba twice in 1735. Seba became a Fellow of Royal Society in 1728.
Spiloxene
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Gk. spilos = a spot, stain; xenos = host or stranger; referring to the spotted base of the tepals in some species.