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.
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Cassytha ciliolata
Cassine peragua subsp. affinis
Bulbinella elata
Brachylaena neriifolia
Bulbine succulenta
Berkheya viscosa
Bulbinella nutans
Brunsvigia bosmaniae
Bulbine torta
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Taxonomy term
Trachyandra
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Gk. trachys = rough; andros = male. The thick filaments are usually hairy.
Widdringtonia cedarbergensis
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From the Cedarberg mountains of the Western Cape, South Africa
Wurmbea
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For Christoph Carl Friedrich von Wurmb (1742–1782), Saxony-born German naturalist and Dutch colonial administrator, who worked in Indonesia (Java) as a merchant in the service of the United East India Company. Later, in 1778, he moved to Batavia, where he became the first secretary and director of the Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen (Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences) in charge of its library and small botanical garden, donated by a member. A keen naturalist – he had a special interest in palm trees – Wurmb was the first traveller to publish accurate observations on the Bornean orangutan in its adult state (it had never before been seen at that time and initially thought to be a new species). He called this animal ‘Pongo’, named after the Mpongwe nation.