Cape Town Area
Broad area from Cape Town to the Cape Peninsula that includes the Cape Flats.
Nodes
Aizoon sarmentosum
Dorotheanthus bellidiformis
Caesia contorta
Trachyandra revoluta
Moraea flaccida
Romulea hirsuta
Serruria glomerata
Dilatris pillansii
Ixia polystachya
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Taxonomy term
Myrsiphyllum undulatum
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From the Latin undulatus = 'undulating' or 'wavy'
Nemesia guthriei
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For Francis Guthrie (1831–1899), English lawyer, mathematician and botanist. He studied at London University, getting a BA degree (1850) and an LLB (1852) before coming to South Africa in 1861 to teach mathematics at Graaff-Reinet College. His extensive collections of flora from the Cape Peninsula are honoured by the Guthrie Herbarium within the Bolus Herbarium at UCT.
Nephrolepis undulata
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From the Latin undulatus = 'undulating' or 'wavy'
Nerine sarniensis
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From the Latin Sarnia the classical name for the island of Guernsey
Neslia paniculata
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From the Latin paniculatus meaning 'tufted' or a 'panicle' referring to the form of the inflorescence
Ocotea bullata
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From the Latin 'bullatus' meaning blistered usually implying the presence of domatia on the leaves
Oenothera odorata
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From the Latin odoratus = ‘sweet-smelling / fragrant’
Onixotis triquetra
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From the Latin ‘triquetra’ / ‘triquetrus’ meaning ‘triangular’
Ophioglossum bergianum
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In honor of Karl Heinrich Bergius (1790–1818) German naturalist and apothecary who collected at Cape Town, South Africa
Ophioglossum nudicaule
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From the Latin nudus = 'nude' or 'naked' and caulis = 'stem'; the stem being either without hair or absent
Ophioglossum polyphyllum
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From Greek poly = 'many' and phyllon = 'leaf'.