Cephalophyllum diversiphyllum
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
13/08/2016 - 3:54pm
Collection:
De Hoop and Potberg Nature Reserve
Adjacent and west of Cape Agulhas, the southern tip of Africa, lie two critical reserves. Both possess calcrete vegetation that is replete with endemic species. De Hoop is also near the mouth of a lagoon that is a sanctuary for many bird species.
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Felicia
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Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
13/08/2016 - 3:42pm
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Hesperantha falcata
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Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
13/08/2016 - 3:37pm
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Indigofera
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Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
13/08/2016 - 2:25pm
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Euryops hebecarpus
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Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
13/08/2016 - 1:51pm
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Metalasia pungens
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Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
13/08/2016 - 1:46pm
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Euryops hebecarpus
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Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
13/08/2016 - 1:42pm
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Ixia orientalis
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Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
13/08/2016 - 1:49pm
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Passerina
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
13/08/2016 - 1:47pm
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Erica scytophylla
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Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
13/08/2016 - 1:21pm
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Taxonomy term
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Lessertia frutescens
(Kankerbos)
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Short etymology:
'shrub-like' from the Latin frutescens meaning ‘producing shoots’
Description:
Shrublet to 1 m. Leaves imparipinnate, leaflets oblong, obtuse, glabrous or thinly hairy above, greyish-green. Flowers red. Pods large, inflated, papery, glabrous. July--Dec. Sandstone and shale flats and slopes, NW, SW, KM, LB, SE (Namaqualand and W Karoo to E Cape).S
Massonia longipes
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Short etymology:
From the Latin longus = 'long' and pes = 'foot'. In plants, this often refers to the base of the leaf or flower.
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Moraea bulbillifera
(Uintjiestulp)
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Short etymology:
From the Latin ‘bulbilli’ / ‘bulbullus’ meaning ‘a small bulb’; and the Latin ‘fera’ / ‘ferus’ meaning ‘bearing’.
Description:
Cormous geophyte, 30--50 cm, stems often with clusters of cormlets at nodes. Leaf solitary, linear, trailing. Flowers stellate, tepals with short claws forming a shallow cup, yellow to salmon, anthers exserted on a slender filament column. Aug.--Sept. Sandstone and limestone soils, mainly coastal, SW, AP, LB, SE (Cape Peninsula to Alexandria).G
Muraltia
NE
20
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Short etymology:
After John M. von Muralt, Swiss botanist and author; flourished around 1576.
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Passerina
NE
4
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Short etymology:
Believed to be from the Latin passer, a sparrow; -ina, relating to; referring to the black seeds resembling a sparrow?s beak.
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Polygala microlopha
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Short etymology:
Description:
Sparsely leafy shrub to 60 cm. Leaves leathery, linear to elliptic, usually shortly ciliate. Flowers in short, terminal umbel-like racemes, purple, side petals unequally bilobed with the lower lobe linear and elongate, crest of the keel reduced and short. Mainly Aug.--Nov. Rocky sandstone and clay slopes, KM, LB, SE (Montagu to E Cape).S
Polyxena ensifolia
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Short etymology:
Latin meaning sword-shaped leaves
Description:
Short-stemmed bulbous geophyte to 5 cm. Leaves 2, spreading to prostrate, lanceolate to ovate, 10--25 mm wide. Flowers corymbose, clustered between the leaves, white to mauve or pale blue, perianth tube slender, longer than tepals, 10--25 mm long, filaments 4--6.5 mm long, anthers exserted. Apr.--June. Clay or granite flats, NW, SW, AP, KM, LB, SE (Namaqualand and W Karoo to Port Elizabeth).G
Prismatocarpus
NE
20
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Short etymology:
Gk. prisma = a thin saw, hence angular; karpos = fruit. The slender inferior ovary becomes greatly elongated; the fruits are shaped like prisms.
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Romulea flava
(Geelfroetang)
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Short etymology:
From the Latin flavus = 'yellow' or 'golden'
Description:
Cormous geophyte, 5--30 cm, corm with an oblique basal ridge, stem short or branching just above ground. Basal leaves 1 or 2, clasping below. Flowers white or yellow, rarely blue or pinkish, with yellow cup, inner bracts papery. June--Sept. Sandy and clay soils, fynbos or renosterveld, NW, SW, AP, LB, SE (Richtersveld to Humansdorp).
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Silene
NE
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Short etymology:
Gk. Silenos = a Greek woodland deity, half man, half horse or goat, companion of Dionysius, always portrayed as old, bald and bearded, and usually covered with foam or slaver; referring to the sticky secretion of the stems that entrap small insects, thus foiling predators. ‘Catchfly.’
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Stilbe
NE
9
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Short etymology:
Gk. stilbo = to shine; also a nymph in Greek mythology, daughter of the river god Peneus and the Naiad Creusa, but ‘the allusion is not clear’ (WPU Jackson). The inflorescence of S. vestita often shines like lighted candles at the top of a candelabra (Hugh Clarke).
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Stilbe ericoides
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Short etymology:
From the Latin -oides meaning ‘resembling'; resembling the genus Erica, the heath
Description:
Erect or straggling, resprouting shrublet to 80 cm, with velvety branches. Leaves imbricate, ascending, linear, in whorls of 4, 2-grooved below. Flowers in subglobose spikes, calyx membranous, pink, corolla hairy in the throat. Apr.--Sept. Sandy flats or limestone hills, SW, AP (Hopefield to De Hoop).
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Tetragonia
NE
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Short etymology:
Gk. tetra = four; gonia = an angle; referring to the angular shape of the fruit.
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