Cape Town Area
Broad area from Cape Town to the Cape Peninsula that includes the Cape Flats.
Nodes
Nerine sarniensis
Babiana tubulosa
Gladiolus cunonius
Disperis capensis
Conicosia pugioniformis
Ruschia sarmentosa
Drimia media
Moraea fugax
Aloe succotrina
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Taxonomy term
Hexaglottis longifolia
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From the Latin longus = ‘long’ and the Latin folius = ‘leaf’
Hexaglottis virgata
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From the Latin virgatus meaning 'striped' or more typically a ‘twig / switch’; typically referring to slender branches with few or no leaves
Histiopteris incisa
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From the Latin incisus = 'cut into'
Holothrix cernua
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From the Latin cernuus meaning ‘drooping’
Holothrix villosa var. condensata
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From the Latin condensare = 'compressed', 'packed closely together', 'concentrated' or to 'grow thickly'
Homeria collina
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From the Latin collinus = 'pertaining to hills'; referring to the habitat
Homeria collina miniata
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From the Latin miniatus = 'lead-coloured'
Homeria collina ochroleuca
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From the Greek ‘ochro’ / ‘ochros’ meaning ‘ochre’; and the Greek ‘leuca’ / ‘leukos’ meaning ‘white’.
Homeria galpinii
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Named after Ernest Edward Galpin (1858-1941), a South African botanist and banker. He left some 16,000 sheets to the National Herbarium in Pretoria and was dubbed "the Prince of Collectors" by General Smuts. Galpin discovered half a dozen genera and many hundreds of new species.
Homeria minor
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From the Latin minor = 'minor / diminutive / unimportant / little'; usually referring in relation to a larger or more impressive species
Huperzia gnidioides
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resembling Gnidia, a genus of plants with ericoid leaves in the Thymeleaceae.