Eastern Cape
Nodes
Polystachya ottoniana
Polystachya pubescens
Eulophia ovalis
Eulophia ensata
Satyrium hallackii
Satyrium parviflorum
Disperis lindleyana
Corycium nigrescens
Eulophia clavicornis
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Taxonomy term
Babiana sambucina
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Barleria obtusa
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From the Latin obtusus = ‘blunt'
Becium obovatum
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From the Latin ob- = 'in opposite' and ovatus = ‘egg-shaped’; i.e. the narrow side is on the side of the stalk
Behnia reticulata
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From the Latin reticulatus = 'net-like'; typically referring to the veins that have multiple secondary or tertiary veins
Berkheya
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Named in honour of Lefranq von Berkhey.
Berkheya speciosa
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From the Latin speciosa / speciosus meaning ‘beautiful’
Blepharis capensis
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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
Blepharis procumbens
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From the Latin procumbens meaning ‘lying down’
Bobartia
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For Jacob Bobart (1599–1680), German botanist and the first horti praefectus (superintendent, head gardener) of the Oxford Physic Garden; which cultivated medical herbs; the first garden of its kind in England. He was the author of Catalogus Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis, sci Latino-Anglicus et Anglico-Latinus (1648); a catalogue of 1600 plants that were in the garden. His son, Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641–1719), succeeded his father as horti praefectus and became acting professor of botany at Oxford.
Bobartia orientalis
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From the Latin orientalis = ‘eastern’
Bonatea
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For Guiseppe Antonio Bonato (1753–1836), Italian botanist who was professor of botany at Padua and praefectus of the Botanical Garden of Padua, author of Pisaura automorpha e Coreopsis formosa. His personal herbarium, together with that of his predecessor Giovanni Marsili, formed the basis of the Padua Herbarium, now housing in excess of a half million specimens.
Boophone
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Gk. bous = ox; phonos = murder, slaughter; referring to the bulb sap which is poisonous, quite capable of killing oxen; hence one of the common names is ‘Oxbane’. Boopis means ‘ox-eyed’, a result of induced hallucinations from Boophone disticha, a traditional Zulu medicine.