Hesperantha huttonii
Locality:
Name of observer:
Auriol Batten (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Eastern Cape
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Leucadendron salignum
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Name of observer:
Auriol Batten (David)
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Date observed unknown
Moraea algoensis
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Name of observer:
Auriol Batten (David)
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Date observed unknown
Romulea pratensis
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Name of observer:
Auriol Batten (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Dierama igneum
Locality:
Name of observer:
Auriol Batten (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Dierama pulcherrimum
Locality:
Name of observer:
Auriol Batten (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Watsonia knysnana
Locality:
Name of observer:
Auriol Batten (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Watsonia knysnana
Locality:
Name of observer:
Auriol Batten (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Dierama
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Name of observer:
Auriol Batten (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Gladiolus ochroleucus
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Name of observer:
Auriol Batten (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
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Taxonomy term
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Abutilon
NE
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Short etymology:
Arabic aubutilun, Latinised as abutilon, first used by Ibn Sina Avicenna (Abd Allāh ibn Sīnā) (980–1037) for a mallow-like plant or mulberry tree. The leaves of some species in this genus resemble those of the mulberry tree.
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Acokanthera oppositifolia
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Short etymology:
From the Latin oppositus = 'opposite' and folius = 'leaf'; the leaves are opposite
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Acridocarpus natalitius
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Short etymology:
Meaning from the Natal or Kwa-Zulu Natal region of South Africa
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Adromischus
NE
20
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Short etymology:
Gk. adros = thick; miskhos = a stalk; referring to the thick stalks of the species.
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African Fish Eagle
(African Fish Eagle)
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Agapanthus
NE
15
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Short etymology:
Gk. agapē = love; anthos = flower. Derivation unknown. Agapeo means ‘to be contented with’. Perhaps the author, L’Héritier, was expressing his pleasure, i.e. ‘flower with which I am well pleased’.
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Agapanthus campanulatus
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Short etymology:
From the Latin campanularis = 'bell shaped'; referring to the flower shape
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Agapanthus comptonii
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Short etymology:
Honoring Prof. Robert Harold Compton (1886-1979). Cambridge educated botanist and the second director of Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens, he made more than 35 000 collections. In 1914 he parrticipated in a field expedition to New Caledonia and found both new genera and new species. This collecting register is in the British Museum. After war service from 1915-1918 he became a professor of botany at the University of Cape Town. He founded and edited the Journal of South African Botany. Upon his retirement he settled in Swaziland and undertook a survey of the territory.
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Agapanthus praecox
20
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Short etymology:
From the Latin praecox = precocious; typically referring to early flowering though it can also mean showy
Description:
Rhizomatous evergreen geophyte, 50--100 cm. Leaves suberect, strap-shaped. Flowers broadly funnel-shaped, blue to white, thin in texture. Dec.--Feb. SE (Knysna to E Cape).G
Aizoon
NE
20
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Short etymology:
Gk. aei = ever, always; zoos, zoon = alive, a living thing; alluding to the ability of the plant to live under difficult circumstances.
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Ajuga
NE
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Short etymology:
Possibly Gk. a- = without; zygo, zygon (La. jugum) = yoke. Linnaeus imaginatively named it Ajuga, meaning ‘has no ox’s yoke’, because the buds on the spike are not connected. This has been interpreted, variously, as an allusion to the fact that the calyx is not divided and is in fact a single petal, or that the sepals surrounding the buds are not connected, or that this is a reference to the apparently missing upper corolla lip. (Umberto Quattrocchi has suggested that this name could be a corruption of an old Latin name Abiga, applied by Pliny the Elder to another plant.)
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Albuca
NE
20
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Short etymology:
La. albus = white or albicans = becoming white; referring to the colouring of some Albuca flowers.
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Albuca angolensis
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Short etymology:
From Angola
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Albuca fastigiata
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Short etymology:
From Latin fastigatus = an 'apex' or 'summit'; referring either to the organism narrowing towards the top; having upright usually clustered branches; or to the organism occurring on a summit.
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