Eastern Cape
Nodes
Watsonia pillansii
Gladiolus gueinzii
Romulea longipes
Tritoniopsis antholyza
Chasmanthe aethiopica
Gladiolus oppositiflorus
Gladiolus ecklonii
Tritoniopsis antholyza
Freesia corymbosa
Pages
Taxonomy term
Disa lugens
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From the Latin ‘lugens’ / ‘lugens’ meaning ‘mourning’
Disa oreophila
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From the Greek οροϛ (oros) = 'mountain' and φιλοσ (philus) = 'loving'
Disa patula
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From the Latin patulus = 'to stand open'
Disa tripetaloides
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-oides denotes resemblance, so likely bearing a similarity possibly to Bulbophyllum tripetalum
Disparago tortilis
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From the Latin torquere = 'contorted', 'winding' or 'twisted'
Disperis
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Gk. dis = twice; pera = a pouch, sac; alluding to the pouches formed by the lateral sepals.
Dissotis canescens
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From the Latin canescens = ‘becoming white’
Dombeya
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For Joseph Dombey (1742–1794), French botanist, physician, naturalist and traveller with Spanish botanists Hipólito Ruiz and José Pavón in Chile and Peru. He gathered much valuable information relating to the cinchona plant from which quinine was derived. His special interest was spermatophytes. He authored Flore Péruvienne, L’Herbier de Dombey explique, and Observations de Dombey faites au Chili et au Pérou, all of which were published posthumously. His career was sullied by misfortune such as his collections being captured by the British (specimens sent to the British Museum) or confiscated by zealous officials. In 1793 he undertook a mission to the United States but never arrived there as a result of a storm. Eventually, he was captured by British privateers and imprisoned for ransom at the British colony in Montserrat, West Indies, where he died. His main work and collection is housed in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.
Drimia
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Gk. drimys = acrid, pungent; referring to the sap which is considered irritating or even toxic in many species.
Drimia capitata
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From the Latin capitatus meaning ‘equipped with a head’, tyically referring to the arrangement of the flowers in a head-like inflorescence.
Drimiopsis maculata
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From the Latin maculatus = 'spotted', 'stained' or 'blotched'
Duvalia
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For Henri Auguste Duval (1774–1814), French physician and botanist. He studied medicine at the University of Paris, was famous for his catalogue Plantae succulenta in horto Alenconio (1809) and was the author of Enumeratio plantarum succulentum in horto Alenconio. He was the first person to describe the plant genera Gasteria, Haworthia and Ligulari, and authored a book on all the species found naturally in the environs of Paris (1813).
Duvalia caespitosa
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From the Latin caespitis = 'grassy' or 'mound'; i.e. forming a low rounded mound
Ehretia rigida
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From the Latin rigidus = ‘rigid’