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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Erica articularis
Empodium namaquensis
Elytropappus rhinocerotis
Elegia
Elegia
Elegia capensis
Ehrharta calycina
Edmondia sesamoides
Drosera cistiflora
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Taxonomy term
Ficinia indica
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From the Latin indicus = ‘relating to India’
Galium capense subsp. capense
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From the Cape Province of South Africa, previously known as the Cape Colony. In the early days of exploration this epithet was frequently applied to anywhere in South or even Southern Africa.
Gasteria pillansii
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Named after Capetonian botanist Neville Stuart Pillans (1884-1964). He joined the staff at Bolus herbarium in 1918 and worked there till his retirement. He had a penchance for succulents and did Monographs of the Restionaceae, Bruniaceae, Phylica, Agathosma and Metalasia. He also did some work on the genus Hermannia, but gave up two years before his death.
Gladiolus
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La. gladiolus = a small sword; referring to the sword-like shape of the leaves.
Grubbia rosmarinifolia
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Haemanthus
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Gk. haima = blood; anthos = flower. The colour of the (flower) perianth is red in many species.
Hebenstretia
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For Johann Christian Hebenstreit (1720–1791), German physician and botanist. He studied medicine at the University of Leipzig from 1740–1748 and practised in Naumburg before becoming professor of botany and natural history at the Russian Academy of Sciences at St Petersburg. In 1751 he became a personal physician to Count Kyrylo Rosumowskyj, the president of the academy, for two years and was stationed in the Ukraine before returning to Leipzig. In 1755 he accepted the position of professor of botany and natural history in St Petersburg, but deteriorating health forced him to return to Leipzig in 1961. Little is known of his life thereafter.
Helichrysum
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Gk. (h)elios = sun; chrysos = gold; referring to the bright yellow flowerheads of many of the flowers of species in this genus.
Heliophila
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Gk. (h)elios = sun; philein = to love. The plant likes a sunny position.
Heliophila scoparia
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Referring to a butchers broom with twigs tied together; also referring to similarity to the broom, Scoparia (Fabaceae)
Hemimeris
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Gk. hemi- = half; meros = a part or fragment; referring to the flower that is cut away on one side, that is, lacking a spur.
Hermannia
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For Paul Hermann (1646–1695), German-born Dutch physician and botanist. He graduated in medicine at the universities of Leiden and Padua, became a ship’s medical officer (1672–1677) for the Dutch East India Company and went to Sri Lanka via the Cape, where he made the first known herbarium collection of local plants, now housed in the Sloane Herbarium, British Museum of Natural History and at Oxford. In 1679 he became professor of botany at the University of Leiden and director of the Hortus Botanicus in Leiden, Europe’s finest botanical garden. His 1687 publication Horti Academici Lugduno-Batavi Catalogus includes 34 Cape plants, and his proposed Prodomus Plantaerum Africanarum was to contain 791 items, but untimely death intervened.
Indigofera
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Indigo is derived from the La. indicus, Gk. indikos, referring to India; La. ferax = bearing. Indigo is blue dye (cf I. tinctoria).