Cedarberg
A semi-arid largely wilderness area comprising rugged mountains. The mountains are north-south trending and several ranges wide. It is home to a large number of endemic species including the famous snow Protea, Protea cryophila.
Nodes
Lacertilia
Psammotropha quadrangularis
Lonchostoma pentandrum
Scrophulariaceae
Scarabaeidae
Drimia fragrans
Sorocephalus
Scrophulariaceae
Scrophulariaceae
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Taxonomy term
Babiana
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Unusual among South African plants in the name being derived from the vernacular Dutch, "baviaantjie", Afrikaans "bobbejaantjie" or its Cape corruption "babiaantjie". The baboon, bobbejaan, is partial to the corms.
Bartholina
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Commemorates Thomas Bartholin, a Danish botanist, 1616-1680.
Berkheya
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Named in honour of Lefranq von Berkhey.
Berkheya fruticosa
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From the Latin fruticosus = ‘bushy’
Berkheya viscosa
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From the Latin viscosus = ‘sticky’
Bobartia
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For Jacob Bobart (1599–1680), German botanist and the first horti praefectus (superintendent, head gardener) of the Oxford Physic Garden; which cultivated medical herbs; the first garden of its kind in England. He was the author of Catalogus Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis, sci Latino-Anglicus et Anglico-Latinus (1648); a catalogue of 1600 plants that were in the garden. His son, Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641–1719), succeeded his father as horti praefectus and became acting professor of botany at Oxford.
Brunsvigia
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For Karl (Carl) Wilhelm Ferdinand (1713–1780), also known as Charles I or Karl I, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, able military commander, ruler of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1773, patron of the arts and sciences who promoted the study of plants, including the beautiful Cape species B. orientalis. He also founded the Collegium Carolinum, an institute of higher education, which is today known as the Technical University of Brunswick. The name Brunswick is the Latin translation of Braunschweig, a town in Germany that was a sovereign duchy of northern Germany between the 1st and 19th centuries.
Brunsvigia minor
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From the Latin minor = 'minor / diminutive / unimportant / little'; usually referring in relation to a larger or more impressive species