Cape Town Area
Broad area from Cape Town to the Cape Peninsula that includes the Cape Flats.
Nodes
Aspalathus aspalathoides
Pelargonium hirtum
Clutia alaternoides
Hermas villosa
Indigofera filiformis
Oxalis corniculata
Hibiscus aethiopicus
Oxalis eckloniana
Phylica dioica
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Taxonomy term
Schizaea pectinata
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From the Latin pectinata meaning ‘comb-like’
Schizaea tenella
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From the Latin tenellus meaning ‘somewhat tender’
Schizodium inflexum
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From the Latin inflexus = ‘bent' or 'curved’ inwards
Selaginella
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Gk. Salaginella is the name given by Pliny the Elder for an ancient plant name that was formerly called Selago. The name Salaginella means ‘little Selago’, but it is only distantly related to Selago (q.v.). Selaginella is an evergreen, low-growing, flowerless, moss-like plant, and relates to Lycopodium slago and Huperzia selago. In contrast, the genus Selago belongs to a family of flowering plants called Scrophulariaceae.
Selaginella pygmaea
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From the Latin pygmaea = ‘dwarfish’
Serruria aemula
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From the Latin aemulus = immitating; meaning to copy or emulate; perhaps referring to the similarity to another species
Serruria glomerata
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From the Latin glomeratus = ‘thickly clustered’
Silene cretica
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From the Latin ‘cretica’ / ‘creticus’ meaning ‘relating to Crete’
Sonderina hispida
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From the Latin hispidus = ‘rough’ or 'with bristles'
Spiloxene alba
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From Latin albus meaning 'white'
Spiloxene minuta
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From the Latin minutus = ‘minute’ / 'very small'
Staavia dodii
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Named in honour of Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Hurt Wolley-Dod (1861-1948), a british soldier and botanist. He bequeathed his herbarium of several thousand specimens to the British Museum.