Rhus tomentosa
Locality:
Name of observer:
Mary Maytham Kidd (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Cape Town Area
Broad area from Cape Town to the Cape Peninsula that includes the Cape Flats.
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Cassytha ciliolata
Locality:
Name of observer:
Mary Maytham Kidd (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Otholobium virgatum
Locality:
Name of observer:
Mary Maytham Kidd (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Tribulus terrestris
Locality:
Name of observer:
Mary Maytham Kidd (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Brachysiphon fucatus
Locality:
Name of observer:
Mary Maytham Kidd (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Staavia glutinosa
Locality:
Name of observer:
Mary Maytham Kidd (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Hermannia grossularifolia
Locality:
Name of observer:
Mary Maytham Kidd (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Crassula rupestris
Locality:
Name of observer:
Mary Maytham Kidd (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Euphorbia tuberosa
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Name of observer:
Mary Maytham Kidd (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Sonderina hispida
Locality:
Name of observer:
Mary Maytham Kidd (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
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Pellaea
NE
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Short etymology:
Gk. pellos = dusky; referring to the dark or black colour of the stipe in most species.
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Pellaea calomelanos
(Hard Fern)
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Short etymology:
From the Greek ‘calo’ / ‘kallos?’ meaning ‘beauty?’; and the Greek ‘melanos’ / ‘melanos’ meaning ‘black’.
Description:
Perennial with a short rhizome. Fronds erect, coriaceous, stipe terete, lamina narrowly ovate, 3-pinnate, pinnules cordate to broadly hastate, entire, glaucous, articulated to petiolules. Sori marginal, continuous, entire. Rock crevices and boulder bases, 300--1500 m, SW, KM, LB, SE (Cape Peninsula to E Africa, Madagascar, Spain, India).
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Pellaea namaquensis
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Short etymology:
namaquensis from the Namaqualand region of the Northern Cape, South Africa, originally inhabited by the Nama peoples, a Khoisan tribe that were traditionally hunter-gatherers.
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Pellaea viridis
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Short etymology:
From the Latin viridis = 'green'.
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Penaea mucronata
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Short etymology:
From the Latin mucronatus = ‘sharp pointed’.
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Persicaria decipiens
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Short etymology:
From the Latin decipiens = ‘deceptive’ or 'false' / 'to catch' or 'trap'; usually referring to its similarity to another taxon
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Pharnaceum elongatum
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Short etymology:
From the Latin elongatus = ‘elongated’
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Phylica plumosa
(Veerkoppie)
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Short etymology:
From the Latin ‘plumosa’ / ‘plumosus’ meaning ‘feathered’
Description:
Sparsely branched shrublet to 40 cm. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 10--15 mm long, rough, margins revolute. Flowers in dense spikes, subtended by buff-plumose bracts longer than the leaves, yellowish, subsessile. May--Aug. Mainly clay and granite soils, NW, SW (Piketberg to Cape Peninsula and Caledon).G
Pleopeltis
NE
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Short etymology:
Gk. pleios = many, full of; peltis = small, round shield: referring to the peltate scales covering the immature sori.
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Pleopeltis macrocarpa
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Short etymology:
From the Greek makros = ‘big’ and karpos = ‘fruit’
Description:
Perennial with widely spreading rhizome. Fronds spaced, coriaceous, stipe sparsely paleate, lamina simple, entire, narrowly elliptic, to 20 cm long, minutely lacerate-paleate beneath. Sori oval, to 4 mm in diam. Forest epiphyte or lithophyte, to 800 m, SW, LB, SE (Cape Peninsula to tropical Africa, Madagascar, tropical and S. America).S
Poa annua
(Annual Winter Grass)
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Short etymology:
From the Latin annuus meaning a year, referring to a plant that is perennial and that completes its life cycle in a year
Description:
Annual, sometimes biennial to 30 cm. Leaves linear-oblong, flaccid. Spikelets in a pyramidal panicle, anthers to 0.8 mm. Jan.--Dec. Disturbed areas, NW, SW, AP, KM, LB, SE (European weed).Pages
