Gladiolus cunonius
Locality:
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
07/10/2018 - 8:54pm
Collection:
Cape Agulhas
Situated at the southernmost tip of Africa, Cape Agulhas is a popular tourist attraction. It is home to the calcretes of the south coast that bear a number of endemic species.
Is private:
Public
Nodes
MESEMBRYANTHEMACEAE
Locality:
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
07/10/2018 - 8:40pm
Collection:
Limonium
Locality:
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
07/10/2018 - 8:38pm
Collection:
Ferraria crispa
Locality:
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
07/10/2018 - 8:35pm
Collection:
Helichrysum retortum
Locality:
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
07/10/2018 - 8:34pm
Collection:
Wiborgiella
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
07/05/2015 - 3:09pm
Collection:
Othonna
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
07/05/2015 - 4:16pm
Collection:
Untitled
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
07/05/2015 - 4:03pm
Collection:
Ficinia overbergensis
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
07/05/2015 - 4:00pm
Collection:
Limonium
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
07/05/2015 - 3:57pm
Collection:
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Taxonomy term
G
Arctotheca
NE
1
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Short etymology:
Gk. arktos = a bear; theke = a case, capsule; referring to rough densely woolly fruit.
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Aspalathus
NE
20
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Short etymology:
From aspalathos, a scented bush that grew in Greece, now in the related genus Astragalus.
S
Athanasia quinquedentata
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Short etymology:
from Latin quinque = 'five' and dentata = 'toothed'
Description:
Densely leafy shrublet to 60 cm. Leaves obovate, spreading to reflexed, often 3--5 toothed. Flower heads discoid, mostly in simple terminal corymbs, yellow, paleate, florets 10--40, glandular hairy in a basal ring. Oct.--Jan. Limestone and sandstone hills, SW, AP, SE (Stanford to Port Elizabeth).
F
Campanulaceae
NE
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Short etymology:
From the Latin campanula, little bell; "bell-flower".
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Chrysanthemoides
NE
1
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Short etymology:
Chrysanthemum (q.v.); Gk. -oides = resembling.
S
Conicosia pugioniformis
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Short etymology:
From the Latin ‘pugnioni’ / ‘pugnus’ meaning ‘fist’; and the Latin ‘formis’ / ‘formis’ meaning ‘in the form of’.
Description:
Tufted perennial to 40 cm, with thick tap root. Leaves trigonous. Flowers yellow, styles free. Fruits xerochastic. Sept.--Nov. Sandy flats, mostly coastal, NW, SW, AP, LB, SE (Richtersveld to Port Elizabeth).G
Cullumia
NE
20
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Short etymology:
For Sir John Cullum (1733–1785), British botanist, geneologist, antiquarian, cleric and scholar, and author of History and Antiquities of Hawstead (1785), and his brother, Sir Thomas Gery Cullum (1741–1831), a medical practitioner, surgeon and botanist, member of the Linnaean Society, and author of Floræ Anglicæ Specimen imperfectum et ineditum (1774). Both became fellows of the Royal Society.
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Disa
NE
20
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Short etymology:
Origin obscure. Börge Pettison believes the plant was named after Queen Disa who occurs in a Swedish legendary saga. The author, Peter Jonas Bergius, was a Swedish botanist.
S
Drosanthemum asperulum
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Short etymology:
From the Latin aspera = 'rough' and -ulum a diminutive meaning roughish
G
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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Euchaetis
NE
20
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Short etymology:
Gk. eu- = well, fine; khaite = long flowing hair, mane. The petals are bearded on the inner surface.
S
Ferraria crispa
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Short etymology:
From the Latin ‘crispa’ / ‘crispus’ meaning ‘curled’ or 'finely wavy'
Description:
Cormous geophyte, 40--100 cm, leafy and much-branched. Leaves sword-shaped. Flowers brown and speckled, anther thecae parallel, . Aug.--Oct. Mainly coastal, sandstone or granite rocks, NW, SW, AP, KM, LB (Lambert's Bay to Mossel Bay, Little Karoo).Pages
