Cape Town Area
Broad area from Cape Town to the Cape Peninsula that includes the Cape Flats.
Nodes
Disa rosea
Lampranthus reptans
Leucadendron levisanus
Ornithogalum fragrans
Gladiolus debilis
Moraea fugacissima
Eulophia tabularis
Wurmbea stricta
Widdringtonia nodiflora
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Taxonomy term
Disa salteri
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Named after Captain T.M. Salter
Disa uncinata
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From the Latin uncinatus = ‘furnished with hooks’
Disparago lasiocarpa
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From the Greek lasios (λασιος), meaning shaggy, wooly, hairy or rough; and -karpon, a fruit.
Dorotheanthus gramineus
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From the Latin gramineus = ‘grassy’
Drimia filifolia
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From the Latin fili = 'thread' or 'string' and folius = 'leaf' ; the leaf is long and narrow
Drimia media
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From the Latin media = the 'middle', generally having characteristics that are intermediate between comparable species.
Drimia minor
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From the Latin minor = 'minor / diminutive / unimportant / little'; usually referring in relation to a larger or more impressive species
Drimia modesta
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From Latin modestus = 'modest', referring to the small size of the plant or its flowers.
Dryopteris
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Gk. dryos- = (oak) tree; pteris = fern; referring to the fern’s habitat – it grows among oak trees.
Ehrharta
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For Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742–1795), Swiss-born German botanist and naturalist. He studied botany at Uppsala University (1773–1775) under the guidance of Linnaeus, before returning to Hanover where Linnaeus’s son was director of the Botanical Garden. Ehrhart was one of the first botanists to publish exsiccatae (= plant collections, precisely identified, named and labeled), for various botanists or institutions. From 1780–1793 he produced seven series of these exsiccatae, each of about 1 620 species. He also had his own general collection (Hortus siccus) of about 3 300 plant species. A set of these collections are kept in the herbarium of Moscow University. He was supposedly the first person to use the rank of subspecies in botanical nomenclature.