Peperomia retusa
Locality:
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
07/10/2018 - 12:02pm
Collection:
Diepwalle Nature Reserve
A forest reserve managed by Cape Nature in the foothills of the Langeberg mountains. This has verdant forest walks that wind through forests complete with tree ferns, epiphytic orchids and some of the largest "big tree" yellowwood trees in South Africa.
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Public
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Peperomia tetraphylla
Locality:
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
07/10/2018 - 12:02pm
Collection:
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Locality:
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
07/10/2018 - 10:34am
Collection:
Platylophus trifoliatus
Locality:
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
07/10/2018 - 10:17am
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Ixodoidea
Locality:
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
07/10/2018 - 12:59pm
Collection:
Mystacidium capense
Locality:
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
07/10/2018 - 12:49pm
Collection:
Impatiens hochstetteri
Locality:
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
07/10/2018 - 12:01pm
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Tridactyle
Locality:
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
07/10/2018 - 11:32am
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Plectranthus fruticosus
Locality:
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
07/10/2018 - 11:10am
Collection:
Armadillidiidae
Locality:
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
07/10/2018 - 10:59am
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Taxonomy term
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Cyathea capensis
(Cape Tree Fern)
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Short etymology:
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
Description:
Shrub or tree with caudex to 4.5 m high, slender. Fronds arching, stipe paleate, lamina to 3-pinnatifid, to 2 m long, pinnule segments narrowly oblong, dentate, with bullate paleae along costules beneath. Sori 1 or 2 at base of each pinnule segment, indusium asymmetric. Moist forests in ravines, 350--1200 m, SW, KM, LB, SE (Cape Peninsula to Knysna and E Africa, Brazil).S
Gerbera cordata
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Short etymology:
From the Latin cordatus = ‘heart-shaped’; usually referring to the leaf shape
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Halleria lucida
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Short etymology:
From the Latin lucidus = 'shiny' or 'glossy'
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Huperzia gnidioides
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Short etymology:
resembling Gnidia, a genus of plants with ericoid leaves in the Thymeleaceae.
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Impatiens hochstetteri
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Short etymology:
Description:
Soft, brittle perennial to 60 cm. Leaves elliptic, toothed. Flowers 1--3 in the axils, pink, lower sepal spurred and lower petals lobed. Oct.--Apr. Forest margins, SE (George to tropical Africa).G
Lycopodiella
(Clubmosses)NE
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Short etymology:
Gk. Lycopodium (q.v.) -iella = diminutive.
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Mystacidium capense
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Short etymology:
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.
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Peperomia retusa
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Short etymology:
From the Latin retusus = 'blunt'
Description:
Soft, creeping perennial to 20 cm, rooting from the nodes. Leaves lightly succulent, obovate, glossy, minutely ciliolate along apex. Flowers in thread-like, terminal spikes, green. Jan.--Mar. Forest floors and humus on sheltered rocks, SW, KM, LB, SE (Cape Peninsula to Mpumalanga).S
Peperomia tetraphylla
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Short etymology:
From tetra = 'four' and phyllon = 'leaf' due to the four leaves per node or leaf lobes
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Platylophus trifoliatus
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Short etymology:
bearing three leaves or a leaf being split into three leaflets
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Plectranthus fruticosus
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Short etymology:
From the Latin fruticosus = ‘bushy’
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