Cape Town Area
Broad area from Cape Town to the Cape Peninsula that includes the Cape Flats.
Nodes
Liparia parva
Amphithalea imbricata
Coleonema album
Lythrum hyssopifolia
Indigofera angustifolia
Adenandra villosa
Olinia ventosa
Audouinia capitata
Aspalathus arida
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Taxonomy term
Staavia glutinosa
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From the Latin glutinosus meaning ‘sticky’; referring to the glue-like nature of the plant
Staavia radiata
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From the Latin radiatus = ‘radiating’
Stipa dregeana
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Commemorates the brothers Carl Friedrich Drege (1791-1867) and Johann Franz Drege (1794-1881) of Huguenot ancestry. Prodigious botanists and plant collectors in the Cape.’
Struthiola dodecandra
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Latin meaing the flower has twelve female parts.
Thelypteris
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Gk. thelys = female; pteris = fern; alluding to this plant’s common name of ‘maiden fern’.
Thelypteris bergiana
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In honor of Karl Heinrich Bergius (1790–1818) German naturalist and apothecary who collected at Cape Town, South Africa
Thelypteris confluens
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Gk. thelys = female; pteris = fern; alluding to this plant’s common name of ‘maiden fern’.
Thelypteris pozoi
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Gk. thelys = female; pteris = fern; alluding to this plant’s common name of ‘maiden fern’.
Thesium funale
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Derivation uncertain. Gk. thes = a hired labourer. An ancient name for a species of Linaria, toad flax, used by Pliny the Elder. Georg Christian Wittstein traces this to the legendary hero Theseus, who slew the Minotaur and to whom Ariadne gave a wreath in which this plant was woven.
Thesium scabrum
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From the Latin scabo meaning 'to scratch' meaning 'rough'
Thesium strictum
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From the Latin strictus = ‘compressed’ or 'constricted'
Thesium viridifolium
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From the Latin viridis = 'green' and folius = 'leaf'