Zyrphelis
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
21/09/2014 - 12:41pm
Collection:
Du Toitskloof
A mountainous area immediately east of Cape Town that is best known by the Huguenot Toll tunnel.
Is private:
Public
Nodes
Hippia frutescens
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
21/09/2014 - 12:42pm
Collection:
Metalasia muraltiifolia
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
21/09/2014 - 12:40pm
Collection:
Euryops decipiens
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
21/09/2014 - 12:38pm
Collection:
Untitled
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
19/12/2008 - 3:44pm
Collection:
Erica conspicua
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
19/12/2008 - 3:33pm
Collection:
Gethyllis villosa
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
19/12/2008 - 3:15pm
Collection:
Untitled
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
19/12/2008 - 1:09pm
Collection:
Untitled
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
19/12/2008 - 11:59am
Collection:
Untitled
Locality:
Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
19/12/2008 - 11:48am
Collection:
Taxonomy term
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Alsophila capensis
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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
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Brunsvigia
NE
19
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Short etymology:
For Karl (Carl) Wilhelm Ferdinand (1713–1780), also known as Charles I or Karl I, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, able military commander, ruler of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1773, patron of the arts and sciences who promoted the study of plants, including the beautiful Cape species B. orientalis. He also founded the Collegium Carolinum, an institute of higher education, which is today known as the Technical University of Brunswick. The name Brunswick is the Latin translation of Braunschweig, a town in Germany that was a sovereign duchy of northern Germany between the 1st and 19th centuries.
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Cliffortia
NE
20
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Short etymology:
For George Clifford (1685–1760), Dutch merchant and banker, amateur botanist and zoologist. He was a director of the Dutch East India Company and owned a magnificent garden at Hartecamp, Netherlands, as well as a private zoo in Amsterdam. George Clifford is best known as a patron of the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus, whom he employed as ‘hortulanus’ and who catalogued the family’s unique collection of plants, herbarium and library. The result was Linnaeus’s 530-page book Hortus Cliffortianus (1738), his first important work, in which he described many species from Clifford’s garden. The publication was paid for by George Clifford as a private edition.
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Endonema
NE
2
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Short etymology:
Gk. endo- = within; nema = a thread, filament. The filament and style are largely contained inside the perianth tube.
S
Erica conspicua
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Short etymology:
From the Latin conspicuus = 'readily noticeable', meaning the plant is grandiose and obvious
Description:
Erect shrub to 2 m. Flowers large, tubular, hairy, orange to red. Oct.--Feb. Marshy or damp flats to middle slopes, NW, SW (Ceres to Paarl).G
Hydroidea
NE
1
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Short etymology:
Gk. hudros = water, water-loving; -oidea = of the nature of (a variant suffix). Hydroidea elsiae is the only known species native to South Africa.
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Leucadendron
NE
20
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Short etymology:
Gk. leukos = white; dendron = tree; referring to commonly called ‘witteboom’ or ‘silver tree’.
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Melasma
NE
20
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Short etymology:
Gk. melas = black. The plants turn black on drying.
G
Oxalis
NE
20
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Short etymology:
From the Greek oxys = sharp, sour or acid and (h)als = salt. The plant is frequently consumed for its sour taste caused by the oxalic acid, particularly the flowering stalks of O. pes-caprae. In large quantities the oxalic acid inhibits digestion and in stock leads to the condition 'dikpens' or bloated belly.
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Psoralea
NE
2
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Short etymology:
Gk. psoraleos = scabby. The plants are covered with rough warty-looking glandular dots.
S
Psoralea usitata
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Short etymology:
Description:
Lax, erect shrub to 2 m. Leaves 1-foliolate, scale-like. Flowers blue and white. Nov.--May. Mountain and lowland fynbos, riverine habitats, 60--900 m, NW, SW, LB (Grootwinterhoek to Langeberg Mts).S
Tritoniopsis lata
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Short etymology:
Description:
Like T. ramosa but more robust and rarely branched, dorsal tepal larger, 7--12 mm wide and longer than upper laterals. Mar.--May. Sandstone mountain slopes, SW (Bainskloof to Hermanus).G
Zyrphelis
NE
12
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Short etymology:
Possible misspelling of Zephyr, the mythological god of the west wind and lover of Flora.
