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
Bruniaceae
Disperis capensis
Scorpiones
Annelida
Scrophulariaceae
Moraea ochroleuca
Sebaea exacoides
Eustegia minuta
Disa flexuosa
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Taxonomy term
Bulbinella
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Bulbine (q.v.); Gk. -ellus, -ella = diminutive.
Bulbinella elata
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From the Latin elatus = ‘high’; the plants are tall
Cassine peragua subsp. affinis
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From the Latin affinis meaning ‘related to’, 'near to', 'resembling' or 'neigbouring'
Centella
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Gk. kentron = a spur or sharp point; -ella = diminutive; probably alluding to the small, pointed styles.
Chaetobromus dregeanus
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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.’
Chironia linoides subsp. linoides
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Clutia
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For Theodorus Augerius Clutius (Outgers Cluyt) (1577–1636), Dutch botanist, horticulturalist, beekeeper and pharmacist, eldest son of Dirck Outgaertszoon Cluyt (Clutius) (1550–1598) from Delft, an apothecary, curator of the Leiden botanical garden, and an authority on medicinal herbs. Outgers studied and worked with his father in the garden. After his father died he hoped to become his successor, but failed in the attempt. Thereafter, he studied at the University of Montpellier for several years. Between 1602–1608 he travelled to France, Germany and Spain, and also, later, on three occasions to the desert of Barbary in North Africa to increase his knowledge and collect plants for the Leiden botanical garden. Leiden University rewarded him handsomely for his efforts. On his return to the Netherlands (1618), he worked as a physician and during that time worked hard to promote the Amsterdam Hortus Botanicus where he obtained a job against strong opposition. Herman Boerhaave honoured Outgers (and his father) by naming Clutia pulchella after them.
Conophytum minusculum
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Convolvulus capensis
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From the Cape Province of South Africa, previously known as the Cape Colony. -ensis is a Latin adjectival suffix meaning “pertaining to or “originating in,” Thus these organisms were first discovered in the Cape. In the early days of exploration this epithet was frequently applied to anywhere in South Africa or even Southern Africa
Corymbium
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Gk. korymbos = a cluster; referring to a flat-topped or rounded clustered inflorescence with the lower petals longer that the upper (i.e. a corymb).
Corymbium glabrum var. glabrum
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From the Latin glabra meaning ‘smooth’
Cotyledon orbiculata var. orbiculata
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Crassula
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La. crassus = thick; -ula = diminutive; referring to the fleshy succulent leaves.
Crassula alpestris subsp. alpestris
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