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.
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Metalasia pungens
Euchaetis meridionalis
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Diosma guthriei
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Erica vestita
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Hypodiscus rigidus
Phylica pubescens
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Taxonomy term
Ficinia overbergensis
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From the Overberg region of the south-western Cape
Gladiolus
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La. gladiolus = a small sword; referring to the sword-like shape of the leaves.
Gladiolus permeabilis
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From the Latin permeabilis = ';able to pass through' in reference to the gaps between the side tepals and the upper tepal
Indigofera
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Indigo is derived from the La. indicus, Gk. indikos, referring to India; La. ferax = bearing. Indigo is blue dye (cf I. tinctoria).
Limonium
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Gk. leimōnion, the ‘sea-lavender’, from leimon = meadow (not marsh, which is limné). Many species flourish in saline soils and are therefore common near coasts and in salt marshes.
Oedera
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For Georg Christian Edler von Oldenburg Oeder (1728–1791), German botanist, physician and economist. He studied medicine at the University of Göttingen under Albrecht von Haller who, in 1751, persuaded King Frederick V of Denmark to appoint Oeder as professor botanices regius (royal professor). He developed a botanical garden and in 1753 he became the founding author of Flora Danica, a massive work initially designed to cover all plant species in the crown lands of the Danish King, which was only completed 153 years later. Oeder served on many commissions and was involved in agrarian and social reforms. In 1771 Oeder lost his professorship as a result of a financial crisis in Denmark and was given a lesser post as a bailiff in Oldenberg, then under Danish rule. Two years before his death he was ennobled by Joseph 11, Holy Roman Emperor of the Hapsburg lands (present-day Austria).
Osteospermum
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Gk. osteon = bone; sperma = seed. The achenes are bone-hard.
Osteospermum sp
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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.
Oxalis stellata
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From the Latin ‘stelllata’ / ‘stellatus’ meaning ‘made star-like’
Phylica pubescens
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From the Latin pubescens meaning ‘downy’ with short soft hairs
Psoralea muirii
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Named after Scotsman Dr John Muir, (1874-1947), physician, naturalist and cultural historian. Came to the Cape in 1826 and in 1923 he retired and concentrated on the study of shells. He criss-crossed the Riversdale region in the course of his medical practice, collecting all the time. He published 'The Flora of Riversdale' which he published as Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa no 13, (1929). In 1929 he also presented his collection of drift-seeds he had found along the beach and was awarded a DSc from Edinburgh University.